Support Worker

Real Life Options Group; Hebburn; On-site; GBP 10,000 - GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A charity organization in South Shields is seeking a Support Worker to assist adults with learning disabilities. Your role will involve helping with daily living tasks, personal care, and medication support, with a focus on enabling independent living. The position offers flexible shifts, along with training and various benefits including paid holidays, health plans, and a contributory pension scheme. Ideal candidates should be honest, reliable, and passionate about supporting vulnerable individuals.

Benefits

28 days paid holiday

Accredited training

Employer contributory pension scheme

Health Cash Plan

Life cover

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounted goods and services

Cycle to Work Scheme

Financial wellbeing scheme

Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Support Worker is required.
• Driver with a full UK manual driving license essential.
• Ability to follow detailed support plans.

Responsibilities

• Assist people with daily living tasks including personal care.
• Support with medication and meal preparation.
• Provide domestic services and social support.

Skills

Good Communicator

Honest

Caring

Reliable

Flexible

Self Motivated

Job description

MaleSupport Worker

Elsdon Mews, South Shields

39 hours per week

£12.50 per hour

Drivers with a full UK manual driving license required

Real Life Options is a registered charity currently going through a period of growth, and we are continuing to search for Support Workers who really want to make an impact on the lives of the people we support.

About the role

Here at Elsdon Mews we support 6 adults with learning disabilities in their own home and provide the necessary support for them to live an independent and full life.

As a Support Worker you will assist people with daily living tasks which may include, domestic services, social support, personal care, support with medication and meal preparation.

We deliver creative, dynamic and person-centred services providing a range of individualised support to people living in shared supported living properties and individual tenancies.

You must have the ability to follow detailed support plans in order to better enable the people we support.

Previous experience is required.

A DBS will be required for this role.

Driver with a full UK license essential.

Shift Patterns

A typical shift would be between the hours of 8am - 9pm. All shifts are 13 hour shifts.

Real Life Options offers flexible employment opportunities. This role may include shift working, including days, evenings, sleepovers, nights and weekends.

Sleepovers will include an allowance.

Benefits and Rewards

• A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
• Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
• An employer contributory pension scheme

In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:

• Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)
• £10,000 Life cover
• A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
• A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• A financial wellbeing scheme
• Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
• Recognition Initiatives

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:

Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence

If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for:

Honest - Good Communicator - Strong Values – Flexible - Passionate - Self Motivated - Reliable - Caring - Inclusive

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.