Support Workers - Full - time

Support Workers - Full - time

Location: Ilford, Essex

Choice Support is recruiting for Support Workers to support vulnerable adults with a confirmed diagnosis of Autism and learning difficulty care needs. This is 24 hours care support service catering to four residents living in a registered care home in North London.

We are looking for staff who can work independently and as part of a team. The people we support require support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and so we are looking for staff who are flexible and can work various shifts. These may be early, late, night and sleep-ins. You may also be required to work some weekends.

You should have experience working in a care setting and you will need to demonstrate a and friendly manner and positive attitude, to be kind and respectful, patient, work in a person-centred way and understand the needs of individuals with learning difficulties.

You will be able to think outside of the box, and be proactive in your approach, have excellent organisational skills, be a strong team player, good communication both verbal and written, and possess a desire to learn and undertake training and development.

Driving is Desirable.

Choice Support will train and support you to enable you to work with the people we support), be part of an exciting and well-established charity with excellent and on-going in-house training programmes and mentoring. If you have not completed a required care certificate then you will be expected to do so.

We offer the following Benefits:

• We pay Bank holiday enhancements.
• The Employee Assistance Programme is available free to all employees and your immediate family. It provides confidential support including face to face, telephone and online counselling.
• Refer a Friend Scheme, where if you introduce someone to Choose Support, you could earn a “recruitment bonus” of up to £500

While Covid19 vaccinations are no longer mandatory, Choice Support still recognises the vaccine to be the best line of defence against Covid 19. Some of our services still require staff to be fully vaccinated – the position which you are applying for is not one of those services. As such you are not required to be vaccinated prior to your start date and whilst we encourage all our staff to be vaccinated, the decision to have the vaccine remains your choice.

Our commitment to diversity: We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and taking action to address inequality. We particularly welcome applications from anyone who is from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background, anyone who considers themselves to have a disability and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Choice Support is Disability Confident which is a scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions. As part of our commitment, we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £20,334.60 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension

Day range:

• Every weekend
• Monday to Friday

Physical setting:

• Care home

Shift:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Night shift

Experience:

• Support Worker: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location