Waking Night Support Worker (Residential Services)

The key purpose of the role is to provide excellent support to people with disabilities whilst respecting their preferences and choices, enabling them to participate in their community as valued citizens. The post holder will need to be flexible and responsive to change. The position will involve working waking nights over weekdays and weekends on a 10 night rota basis. We are looking for:

• Supportive and caring individuals to promote independence & choice, help people achieve their personal outcomes and develop new skills through person centred planning.
• Confident individuals to support people through physical care, assistance or prompting in accordance with individual care plans, respecting dignity and preferences.
• An organised individual to assist people to access mainstream and specialist services and agencies that promote their health and wellbeing.
• An effective communicator who can share information as appropriate whilst maintaining confidentiality and data protection requirements in line with policy.
• Someone with a positive attitude, who can demonstrate flexibility and resourcefulness and a willingness to develop new skills.
  
  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.

Permanent part time position of 15 hrs pw (2 nights in 10) Starting rate £12.22 per hour, rising to £12.67 per hour after a successful probation period,
• Full e-learning training provided including the opportunity for professional qualifications.
• Double pay for bank holidays.
• Enhanced overtime rate.
• Birthday leave.
• Company pension scheme.
• Company Sick Pay after 1 year increasing with length of service.
• Additional Company Sick Pay after 1 year increasing with length of service.
• Annual leave for length of service up to 25 days plus bank holidays.
• Training & Attendance Bonuses.
• 40% membership discount with ARC for racquet sports & gym.
• Cash staff referral scheme.
• Free Will Writing service.
• Cycle to work scheme.