Day Opportunities Support Worker (Adults)

As a Day Opportunities Support Worker, you'll support young adults with learning disabilities who have varying needs, abilities and interests, helping them engage in personalised, fun activities and hobbies, that build social networks and promote inclusion. Your compassion, empathy and patience, combined with your commitment to promoting independence, will help service users learn, grow in confidence, and enjoy a variety of interesting activities. What you'll do:

• Engage in fulfilling activities: Support service users to take part in fun activities tailored to their individual physical, mental, social and emotional needs, such as swimming, bowling, archery, cinema trips, and sharing their hobbies.
• Assist with daily living activities: Support service users with eating, drinking, mobility, personal care, and medication, ensuring everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
• Provide dedicated support: Support wheelchair users with moving and positioning activities, as well as supporting service users who present challenging behaviours through positive behaviour support, following induction and training.
• Promote community involvement: Support service users in their involvement in local community projects, helping them to develop important social networks.
• Build relationships: Establish positive connections with service users, celebrating their achievements and milestones., Career growth and development: We invest in your future. With ongoing development opportunities, you'll have the chance to enhance your skills and your career., We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
  
  You may already have experience of providing care, but it's not essential - we provide all the training you need to be a great Day Opportunities Support Worker. What's more important to us is that you have the right values, skills and motivations to enable people to lead full and active lives as independently as possible.
• Passion and dedication: A genuine desire to help others and make a positive and lasting difference to their lives.
• Empathy and compassion: Understand and share the feelings of others to build trust and provide emotional support.
• Respect and patience: Treat service users with dignity and adapt to their individual needs calmly, even in challenging situations.
• Adaptability: Responsive, flexible and able to work without direct supervision. Resilient under pressure and can adapt positively to changing situations and demands.
• Communication skills: Clear and effective communication and the ability to interact with service users with a diverse range of complex communication and sensory support needs.
• Team player: Enjoy working closely with others to provide the best support possible.
  
  Find out more about Working with us in Adults' Health and Care, including our benefits and the recruitment process.
  
  Supportive environment: Work in a friendly and collaborative team who feel proud of the work they do to support people in our community.
• Work life balance: For this role there is no requirement to work evenings, weekends, or bank holidays.
• Competitive benefits package: Find more information here.