Support Worker

Location: Waterlooville

Salary: £25,397 plus £1000 Havant MRA FTE * Salary will be prorated for Part Time

Permanent, Part Time & Full Time positions available

The first suitable applicant will be appointed.

YOU is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Portsmouth, Somerset, Dorset, Sussex and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives. 

YOU has a strong value base, striving to be person-centred, innovative, trustworthy, can-do and excellent at all times, so it is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.

Essential Requirements:

The successful Support Worker will need to have:

• Proof of right to work in the UK. Please be advised we do NOT offer sponsorship.

• Ability to work shifts including evenings, weekends and bank holidays

• Experience of supporting people with a variety of needs including personal care, money management, accessing the community and household chores

• Hold a UK Driving Licence

• Good communication skills: verbal, non-verbal, and written

The Role: 

We're recruiting for Support Workers to join our Learning Disabilities Service in Waterlooville. This is a great chance to help clients with learning disabilities manage different parts of their lives in a Supported Living setting. You'll be helping out with daily tasks like cooking, cleaning, and getting out into the community. Clients will also need help with personal care, including toileting.

Your role is to provide safe, person-centred support to boost our clients independence and help them live their lives the way they want to.

Every day is different in this job, so you'll need to be flexible, patient, caring, and kind.

About You:

You need to be professional and proactive in all that you do, with a motivational, encouraging and supportive approach with clients and colleagues alike. Relevant knowledge and skills relating to individuals with a learning disability would assist you in this role, but if you are the right person for the job we will support you to gain the experience you need. We also want people who will share their successes and promote the excellence of the service wherever they go.

We are a disability confident employer.

Our Benefits:

If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed: 

*       Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing. 

*       Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday. 

*       Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options. 

*       Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave. 

*       Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes. 

*       Real opportunities to develop in your profession. 

*       Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme. 

*       Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day! 

*       Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites. 

The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check. 

Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to adults and/or children it is an offence to apply for the role if you have been barred from engaging in such regulated activity.  

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