Support Worker(Christchurch/Bournemouth, Dorset)

Support Workers

Location: Bournemouth & Christchurch

Salary: Up to £19,171.79 per annum (including a geographical allowance of £1,051.00)

Hours: Mon - Sun (including days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays). Waking nights may be required.

Closing date:23 December 2021

Please note due to the needs of our customers, some previous experience in working in care/support is preferable. Weekend availability, a valid driving licence and access to your own vehicle is essential for this role.

We are currently recruiting two experienced Support Workers to join our team in Christchurch!

About the role

You will be working in an environment which encourages a person-centred approach to enable customers to realise their hopes, dreams and aspirations. You will support a young lady in her late teens with complex mental health needs who lives in one of our flats. She is fun-loving, enjoys horseback riding, socialising and outdoor activities. She loves walking her dog, so it is important that you are comfortable around dogs.

Duties may include (but are not limited to):

• Prompting on personal care
• Laundry and housework
• Food preparation and cooking
• Budgeting and shopping
• Monitoring and/or administering medications.
• Being active in the community (employment, study, volunteering and/or leisure activities)
• Maintaining relationships with family and friends
• Social activities
• Accompanying the customer to appointments and/or on excursions
• Working in partnership with other agencies and organisations.

About You

The attributes you possess, as part of your personality, are just as important to the role as the skills needed to fulfil the job specification. Advance and its customers are keen to employ people who have some or all of the following qualities, these being someone who is:

• polite, punctual and reliable
• honest and trustworthy
• calm, kind and consistent
• funny and broad-minded
• warm and welcoming
• patient and understanding
• flexible and fun!
• happy to work as part of a team or independently as necessary, using their initiative as required
• organised and able to keep records up-to-date
• self-motivated and proactive with a forward-thinking, can-do approach
• able to act in a responsible and respectful manner to others and the differences they may have
• supportive of the customers’ goals to live the lifestyle of their choosing
• willing to learn new skills
• happy to use their full UK driving license and own car with business class insurance.

For more information or an informal chat about this vacancy, pleasecall or text our Deputy Service Manager, Eliza, on: 07710 091475

About Advance

Advance is a well-established, national, charitable organisation which provides support for adults with learning disabilities and mental health conditions living in the community. We are an equal opportunities employer who values our staff and the difference that they make to our customers. Whatever our role in the company, we all share a pride in what we do and use PRIDE to define how we all behave.

At Advance, we are proud of the work we do and the difference we make to our customers’ lives every day. We couldn’t do this without our staff and we recognise that our people are our greatest asset. This is why we invest in the training and development of our staff, to enable them to gain industry-recognised qualifications and support them in realising their own career aspirations.

Benefits of working for Advance

We’re a national, charitable organisation, supporting thousands of people across the UK. We value our staff and the difference they make to the lives of our customers, which is why we offer the following benefits:

• Flexible hours to fit around you and the needs of our customers
• Paid mileage and travel time between appointments
• Paid holiday (from 25 days up to 30 days with long service in addition to bank holidays, pro rata)
• Full, professional training and the opportunity to work towards care qualifications
• Free DBS check
• Support from an experienced manager
• Excellent opportunities to progress your career within Advance
• Enrolment in a pension scheme with matched contributions above the statutory minimum (if you work enough hours to meet the threshold for enrolment).

Advance is regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing and the Care Quality Commission and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. You will be required to provide evidence of right to work. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be covered by Advance.

We value diversity and therefore welcome applications from everyone interested in working at Advance. Advance are enrolled in the disability confidence scheme.

Advance Housing & Support Ltd reserves the right to close this job once sufficient applications have been received