Support Worker

The YOU Trust LTD; Eastleigh; On-site; GBP 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A registered charity is seeking a Female Support Worker in Eastleigh to assist clients with complex needs, promoting independence and person-centred care. The role involves split shifts with flexible working patterns, and requires good communication skills and experience in supporting diverse needs. Candidates must be able to work various shifts, including weekends and holidays. An attractive benefits package is offered, along with comprehensive training. This position emphasizes compassion, motivation, and a commitment to safeguarding clients.

Benefits

Competitive rates of pay including weekend enhancements

Enhanced annual leave entitlements

Matched pension scheme contributions

Excellent training and development opportunities

Free health and wellbeing advice

Access to discounts through a Blue Light card

Responsibilities

• Support female residents with complex medical, physical, and learning needs.
• Assist clients to live the life they want and provide person-centred support.
• Provide full personal care as required.

Skills

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

Experience of supporting people with a variety of needs

Promote and encourage people's independence

Able to work shifts including evenings, weekends and bank holidays

Confident to lone work

Job description

Female Support Worker

Location: Eastleigh

Salary: £29,167 FTE *

Salary will be prorated for Part Time hours

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time, Part Time

The location for this role is a 10 minute walk from Eastleigh Train Station.

Split shifts with flexible working patterns available.

To start as soon as possible

Due to some of the tasks and personal care included within this role this job is open to Female applicants only. Please note that, in line with the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1, there is a genuine occupational requirement for this post to be filled by a female worker.

*Salary has been based on full time hours, working 15 hours weekend shifts per month and 2 sleep-in shifts per month.

YOU is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Somerset and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives. We also maintain an in-house pool of sessional workers, which we refer to as the ‘Premier Crew’.

Essential Criteria:

• Able to work shifts including evenings, weekends and bank holidays
• Experience of supporting people with a variety of needs
• Promote and encourage people's independence
• Good communication skills: verbal, non-verbal, and written
• Confident to lone work

The Role:

You will be supporting female residents with complex medical, physical, and learning needs. We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity to work alongside people with disabilities in one of our large Services in Eastleigh. As a Support Worker you will be assisting the people we work with to live the life they want. You will provide safe, person-centred support to promote independent living skills and help make a clients’ hopes and wishes a reality.

Some of our clients also require full personal care which can include toileting and bathing so experience of this would be beneficial but not essential.

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.

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.

We are a disability confident employer.

Our Benefits:

• Competitive rates of pay including weekend enhancements.
• 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.
• Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes and real opportunities to develop in your profession.
• Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites through the use of a Blue Light card.

We are also recruiting to our bank of Sessional Support Workers called Premier Crew. If this is something that interests you, please contact us.

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.