Support Worker Learning Disabilities
4 months ago
We are seeking to recruit experienced Support Workers or Healthcare Assistants to work with Adults with learning disabilities for a specialist residential service in Gloucester.
The adult service users live in a home specialising in autism and you will have a minimum of six months experience with in a health care environment. The adult service users aged 25 plus live in a mixture of own flats or in the main house in their own single rooms. There are eleven service users living here - two of which are female. The ladies have their own flats - girl power You will be providing one to one support. Yes, at times the work can be challenging but you will be rewarded by ensuring your service user has fun on days out with other service users at Butterfly Garden, Dundry Gardens and Kingfisher Treasure Seekers where the service users can join in the activities ranging from cookery to disco dancing. You will encourage and support your service user to go shopping and prepare their own meals. The home is under new management and your input will embed the values and encourage the service users to believe in their accomplishments. The home has its own car so if you are a car driver - all the better
Here at Cream Health Care we pride ourselves on the standard of our service and the team we have around us. Do you want to work for an honest & respectable agency? Do you have a passion to help and support others? Do you want flexible ongoing work? If so then you could be just the one we are looking for.
Working with Cream Care will give you flexibility as you choose the hours and days you work each week. You just let us know each week when you are available and we will work with you. However, once you have given your availability for a week it is then ‘written in stone’ and we will offer you shifts on the days you have committed to.
By joining Cream Care as a Support Worker you will be joining a family run business. Cream was established as an agency in 1973 moving into health care in 2009. You will be part of a team of the very best staff who work in the best residential homes - yes, we hand pick the homes we work with to ensure they welcome the Cream of the Crop of health care professionals.
You will be treated by our team at ‘base’ with respect. We will take care of you. We work for you - you don’t work for us.
Once you are ‘on board’ as one of our flexible workers you will have the opportunity to work at a number of homes in addition to this home and you will then choose to work in the homes you thrive in. You will always receive feedback at the end of your first shift in a new home.
**THE FIT**
To fit with the role of Support Worker you will:
- Have a minimum of six months experience in the care sector - providing support to service users with autism - otherwise experience with learning disabilities/challenging behaviour or physical disabilities
- Ideally be MAYBO trained
- Have a passion to deliver great care and support.
- Dignity - a commitment that you will treat all service users with dignity and respect
- Cheerful - to wow the service users and keep them happy.
- Good spoken English - the service users love to chat and you will be reassuring them with little chats whilst encouraging them and supporting them
- Be willing to deliver personal care
- Record Keeping - you will keep all records up to date as you move from one client to another
**HOURS OF WORK**
The shifts are:
- 07.00 - 15.00
- 08.00 - 15.00
- 15.00 - 22.00
- 08.00 - 20.00
- 22.00 - 08.00
You choose the shifts around your work/life balance. We have shifts coming in from this home for seven days a week.
**THE GOOD STUFF**
Cream Care will offer you:
- Weekly pay direct into your bank account each Friday following the week you worked
- 28 days annual leave. You accrue this based on the hours you have worked
- Contract - you will be a ‘temp’. Many of our staff have been with us for 5 years, some have taken (and been paid for) maternity leave, others have found other jobs - then returned to Cream Care
- Access to your rotas and payslips on line. This gives all the detail for the home you are working at for each shift including address, telephone number so you will always be in the know
- Confirmation of all shifts you have accepted via SMS so if you have forgotten you only have to look at your phone
- Mandatory Training - free on line training plus free annual training updates
- Support - our care staff call us their ‘mentors’
- Induction - at the start of your first shift at a new home - yes, including fire procedures
Come and join us - you won’t be a name on a list. We carefully select staff for shifts based on
- Are you dependant on us to pay your rent/mortgage?
- Have you had the hours you need this week
- Do you love working at the home where the shift is
- Will the home jump for joy when we tell them it’s you doing the shift
- "I‘ve been working with Cream for over six months as I require flexible working
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