Daily Living Assistance: Support individuals with day-to-day tasks, ensuring they feel empowered and confident in their abilities. This will include, medication support, personal care, finance support and support at meal times. Person-Centred Support: Help create meaningful, tailored days out like our recent ones to the Zoo and the Army Museum, and sensory-rich indoor activities like storytelling and games. From leisurely walks to bringing outdoor games inside, you'll help keep everyone engaged and having fun. Initiative & Creativity: Use your initiative to discover and plan new opportunities and experiences that promote growth, enjoyment, and well-being.

We are looking for enthusiastic and caring Support Workers to join our dedicated team in Ruishton, Somerset. We support a group of wonderful ladies and gentlemen who enjoy engaging in different hobbies such as sensory activities, getting outside in the fresh air for walks, baking and maybe some pampering or our ladies! If you have a passion for improving the quality of life for others and love planning engaging, person-centred experiences, this could be the perfect role for you!,

• Compassionate and patient individuals with a positive attitude.
• Someone who enjoys planning and participating in different activities such as shopping, pampering, and sensory experiences.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Creativity and initiative in finding new and exciting ways to engage the people we support.
• Flexibility and willingness to work around the needs and preferences of the individuals we support
  
  Discovery supports people with learning disabilities, autism, challenging behaviour and complex needs throughout Somerset. We are driven by our values of ambition, courage, integrity, partnership and respect to provide exemplary care. We help people choose how they would like to live their life and provide training and support to help them find employment.
Adults with autism and learning disabilities and their families are at the heart of everything we do, and we want every person we support to have the best life possible. We are part of Dimensions, one of the country's largest not-for-profit organisations, which has been at the forefront of national best practice in support provision for more than 40 years. Discovery's vision for Somerset is for people with learning disabilities and their families to gain more control over their support, make more day to day choices, live in high quality and fit for purpose buildings and have the same opportunities as everybody else from a service that is good value for money. Why work with us? Start your day knowing you'll make a difference. Join us and create more opportunities for the people we support across Somerset. You'll have the satisfaction of knowing you're changing someone's life each and every day, and in return we'll help your career be the best it can be with our excellent colleague benefits and development opportunities. By joining Discovery you will enjoy a rewarding role working with a great team of people - all with a shared goal of helping people get more from life. We want all our colleagues to be able to reach their potential, and offer a wide range of career and management development programmes to help you achieve your goals.


• £13 per hour
• 30 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Supported 'Learn to Drive' scheme (up to 30 driving lessons, 1 theory/practical test - all paid for by us)
• We offer a salary advance scheme where you can access up to 50% of the money you've earned before payday.
• A 24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family members.
• Life Assurance and Pension scheme
• Great Induction and training opportunities including the Care Certificate, and Diploma in Health & Social Care.