Experienced Support Worker

Real Life Options are recruiting experienced support workers to work at our supported Living service in Ilkeston providing support to people with autism, learning disabilities, and Complex needs.

We will provide individualised support packages and promote independence to enable people to live a happy fulfilled life within their own homes. The purpose-built accommodation is made of individual apartments and purpose-built bungalows.

The service comprises of 12 apartments for people with mild learning disabilities, 4 bungalows for individuals with higher complex needs and 4 bungalows for people who display behaviours of concern.

Shift patterns are generally:

07:00 to 14:00/15:00 and 08:00 to 15:00/16:00

14:00 to 21:00/22:00 and 15:00 to 21:00/22:00

21:00 to 07:00 and 22:00 to 07:00 (Waking Nights)

The role

You will be supporting individuals in their own homes to live as independently as possible. This involves, following daily planners, helping with financial expenditure, domestic support and administration of medication, there may be some support with personal care and meal planning/preparation, maintaining important relationships and support to find new friendships.

A rewarding part of the role will be encouraging participation in activities in the local community to enhance social inclusion. Seeking new opportunities for the growth and development of the people we support which could include volunteering roles and further education access.

Honest - Good Communicator - Strong Values - Flexible - Passionate - Self Motivated - Reliable - Caring - Inclusive, Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

Working on a rota, you will be required to work weekends, evenings, bank holidays and nights with planned time off.

A Enhanced DBS Is Required for this role.

Benefits and Rewards

At Real Life Options we treat our people with the same respect, care and consideration that we show to the people we support. Not only do we provide competitive rates of pay, a great place to work and great job satisfaction, our additional benefits include:

Benefits and Rewards

A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
An employer contributory pension scheme

In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:

Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)
£10,000 Life cover
A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
Cycle to Work Scheme
A financial wellbeing scheme
Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
Recognition Initiatives

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:

Respect - Honesty - Responsibility - Excellence

If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for