Support Worker- Drivers Only- Various Hours

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Support Worker - Drivers Essential - Full time/Part time and Relief - Alfreton @ £9.15 per hour

Do you want a Real

• Opportunity
• Chance to make a difference
• Career progression
• Chance to develop your skills and knowledge
  

Real Life Options is a registered charity, come and work for Real Life Options and you’ll start your day knowing that you’re making a difference by supporting greater independence and creating more opportunities for people with learning disabilities and autism.

You’ll have a really rewarding role working with a great team of people and the chance to make a real difference to other people’s lives. We will support you along your career path to learn, develop and grow.

The role

We deliver creative, dynamic and person-centred services providing a range of individualised support to people living in supported living schemes, as well as outreach support to several properties in the Alfreton area. You will provide support with:- personal care, domestic support, budgeting guidance, emotional support, encouraging participation in social activities and attendance to medical appointments. We encourage the individuals we support to make their own choices, so whilst some may like the routine of set activities each day, others may prefer to be more spontaneous. As part of the role you will be required to assist with the use of a wheelchair, so you will need to be relatively fit.

You will be mentored by experienced Support Workers, who will share their skills and techniques and provide support to you.

We will require you to have a full clean driving license and also have business insurance in order to drive vehicles belonging to the people we support. Previous experience is desirable for this position, although full training will be provided.

Real Life Options offers flexible employment opportunities.

An enhanced Adult DBS is required for this role.

Your shifts will include:- days, waking nights, sleep-ins and weekends.

Benefits And Rewards

At Real Life Options we treat our people with the same respect, care and consideration that we show to the people we support. Not only do we provide competitive rates of pay, a great place to work and great job satisfaction, our additional benefits include:

• Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
• Access to training bursaries
• A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
• An employer contributory pension scheme
• A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
• £10,000 Life cover
• Refer a Friend Incentive £250 Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
• A financial wellbeing scheme
• A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
• Recognition Initiatives
• The chance to make a real difference in people’s lives
  

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

Skills

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.