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Support Worker

Employer
Not For Profit People
Location
Enfield (Carterhatch)
Salary
£19,813 per annum (full time), flexible working £10.00 per hour
Closing date
27 Sep 2021

Job Details

Support Worker

We have several opportunities available for Support Workers to provide high quality care and support to people in Enfield.

Our client has been providing high-quality support and care services to vulnerable people for more than 40 years in London and has grown from strength-to-strength.

Role: Support Worker

Location: Enfield (Carterhatch)

Salary: £19,813 per annum (full time), flexible working £10.00 per hour

Contract: Full Time Permanent and Flexible working available

Closing Date: 9:00am on 27th September 2021

About the role:

We are looking for enthusiastic and committed Support Workers to provide high quality care and support services to the people they support with learning disabilities in Enfield.

You will support people with their day to day life, to learn new skills and develop confidence and independence and to have a good quality of life. The people they support are individuals and all deserve to be treated as such. Duties may include supporting with personal care needs, empowering people to take part in a wide range of special interests and activities that support people’s health and welling such as arts and crafts, drama, musical evenings, enabling people to be involved in household tasks, shopping trips, cooking, as well as supporting people on social occasions.

Carterhatch supported living services is a group of accommodations for people with varying levels of learning disability. The service has a number of blocks with self-contained flats and communal areas, a shared house and the level of support ranges from minimal to 24 hours full care and support across the schemes.

About you:

To be successful as a Support Worker you will share the organisations values of enabling, empowering, and engaging. You will also need to bring with you the following skills:

 

  • Excellent team player
  • Experience in supported living or willingness to learn
  • Having the ability to build positive relationships with people we support and their families
  • Being creative and empowering in your support practise
  • Good communication skills
  • Having the resilience for supporting people through bad days as well the good
  • Embrace positive behaviour support

 

Benefits:

As well as knowing what you do makes a difference to people’s lives every day, you will also receive a great benefits package:

 

  • Flexible working hours that will give you the work life balance that is right for you
  • Up to 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time)
  • Computing Scheme
  • Credit Union Scheme
  • Cycle-to-Work Scheme
  • Death in Service Benefit
  • Health Assured – Employee Assistance Programme
  • Blue Light Card
  • Eye care Vouchers
  • Flu Jab Reimbursement
  • Long Service Awards
  • Pension Scheme
  • Purchase Additional Annual Leave
  • Refer-a-Friend Scheme
  • Retirements
  • Loans (including season tickets and parking permit loans)

 

Our client is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff to share this commitment. If the post you apply for involves working with or having access to adults at risk and/or their records, we will require an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Services for successful candidates. This will be fully subsidised.

Whilst experience is not essential as full training will be provided, we very much welcome previous experience working as: Support Worker, Home Carer, Care Worker, Health Care Assistant, Support Worker, Nurses, Social Care Worker, Care Assistant, Mental Health Care Worker, Voluntary Worker.

Company

We are Not-For-Profit People.

We recruit exclusively for organisations in the challenging Not-For-Profit sector. We’re fully behind the charities and bodies that aim to change the world – one project at a time. Whether you’re seeking exceptional leaders, committed staff or a combination of the two, you probably want to know exactly how we’re different and why it matters to you. We don’t do business as usual. We deliver a recruitment solution that replaces clunky, costly, contracted processes with a single, seamless solution.

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