Support Worker – v977

Azure Charitable; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a compassionate team dedicated to empowering individuals with learning disabilities. As a Learning Disabilities Support Worker, you will provide essential support, helping clients achieve their personal goals and maintain independence. This rewarding role offers full training, flexible working hours, and a supportive environment where your contributions truly matter. Enjoy generous benefits, including annual leave, sickness benefits, and opportunities for career progression. If you are kind, reliable, and passionate about making a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Paid DBS

Life insurance plan

Group personal pension scheme

Paid working breaks

Travel allowance

Fully funded training

Sickness benefits

Opportunity for career progression

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• No experience needed; training is fully funded.
• Compassionate and kind individuals preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support clients with personal care and daily activities.
• Encourage independence and assist with meal planning.

Skills

Personal Care

Meal Preparation

Communication Skills

Companionship

Driving License

Education

No formal qualifications required

Job description

Department: Support Services - Socal Care

Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Hours: Full Time and Part time

Why not come and join us today!

If you are considering working in Care, we would love to hear from you. Personal experience of caring for someone and life experience counts. If you are kind, reliable and enjoy helping people, then this is the job for you. Full training and shadowing shifts before you are supporting on a 1-1 basis, training continually updated.

Our Support Worker roles are immensely rewarding and enjoyable and we are looking for inspirational, enthusiastic Support Workers to join our staff family.

Each client has tailored care plans, the main responsibilities of a Support Worker are – personal care (depending on the service) light housework, meal preparation, companionship, supporting with or administering medication, supporting clients to be independent and to achieve their personal goals.We’re looking for kind and compassionate people to join our team of Learning Disabilities Support Workers at our Newcastle services (NE55 area). Due to the clients having their own cars a full UK driving licence is preferred.

Azure’s aim is to support our clients to achieve independence, exercise their personal freedoms and make choices about the lives they lead.

Why not have a look at our Facebook page to see the amazing things we do with our clients, you will be surprised.

We are looking for staff who enjoy working together to support our clients to have the same life chances and choices as you and I in this world, learning or physical disabilities, and mental health problems, are not limitations.

Join our team of Learning Disabilities Support Workers and in return for your hard work and dedication you will be rewarded with some fantastic benefits;

Pay

• £12.36 /hr – full and part-time hours available!
• Generous sleep in payment
• Up to £500 – New starter bonus
• £500 refer a friend scheme

Role

As a Learning Disabilities Support Worker you will help clients with everyday tasks like:

• Supporting people with their social and physical activities, this could be helping to keep in touch with family and friends, maintaining and developing hobbies and interests such as recording a song into a CD, supporting people to attend music concerts, going to Cruft’s or to help a person to support Newcastle football club, meeting various players and professionals.
• Helping a person with meal planning and preparation whilst providing healthy advice and guidance of new and exciting things to try.
• Encouraging a person’s independence, this may mean you will need to do a small part of a task to empower the person to complete the job.
• Provide support in a person centred way, support individual people with their own needs and goals, following support and care plans.
• Be able to communicate on all levels, speaking out for those who are not able to, passing on important information.
• Helping with personalised care through individual choice and control whilst protecting people’s dignity, such as supporting someone to choose an outfit, get washed and dressed for the fun filled day ahead.

This position is an opportunity to work creatively with people with

Training:

No experience is needed as all your training is fully funded by the charity and you will be paid for your time to complete your training.

As a Learning Disabilities Support Worker, you will be provided with:

• 28 days’ annual leave rising to 33 days including bank holidays (pro-rata for part -time)
• Full time and part–time working patterns.
• Sickness benefits
• Full induction and shadowing programme.
• Fully funded training
• Regular supervision sessions.
• An annual appraisal and personal development plan.
• Paid DBS and online registration
• Paid working breaks within shift pattern
• Working hours and shift patterns for the full month
• Up to 45p per mile travel allowance.
• Life insurance plan
• Group personal pension scheme with matching employer contributions up to 6.5%
• Opportunity to progress your career
• Free PPE
• you need to be as mad as a box of frogs to work here”
• You can be open and honest without feeling you will be judged”
• I feel supported with any personal problems”
• Work and home life balance is very good not like a 9-5 type job,
• flexibility to work on your own with the client’s activities”,
• I like knowing what I am doing for the whole month”

CQC Rating Good

Please contact Sandra Pringle on 01914661664 for more information or an informal chat about the post.

A full UK or EU/EEA driving licence is required for this position.

Contact Dawn Wiles on 01670 733966 at our Cramlington office to be sent an application pack or apply online by submitting your CV [e-mail].