Support Worker

6 months ago

Lancaster, United Kingdom Alternative Futures Group Full time

Being a Support Worker at AFG is a hugely rewarding role and could be your first step on a long and happy career in Health & Social Care.

**So, what does a Support Worker do?**

We have a vision to create _a world where people control their lives. _Here at AFG, we pride ourselves on helping the people we support to design, develop and ‘own’ the support they receive by planning this with them; we support people to make informed choices and increase their own independence; and we support people to maintain their own health, wellbeing and living environment. These principles are really important to us.

Our Support Workers work in a variety of settings including community-based services (often supporting people in their own homes) to our Treatment & Recovery Centres.

One thing that is common across all of our services is a focus on personalised support and tailoring our services to the needs and aspirations of the people we support with a diverse range of care needs (including Learning Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Mental Health Concerns, Complex Care, Substance Misuse issues to name a few).

**We value the people that work with us**

At AFG we recognise the contribution and value that our staff make. We would not be able to provide the life changing support that we do without people like you In return for your contribution we will support you throughout your career and we provide a wide range of employee benefits, career development (including opportunities to undertake vocational qualifications) and lifestyle support services to ensure that you too feel supported, fulfilled and valued from day one of your employment with us.

**About you**

There are a few things that we look for in all of our support workers; we would need you to
- be a good communicator (verbally and in writing)
- be patient, confident and enthusiastic about caring for others
- be able to use your own initiative
- be able to work as part of a team
- have flexibility to work a varied shift pattern to provide 24-hour support
- share our AFG values

We don’t ask for any other relevant training or a previous career in care as full training will be provided - you just need a willingness to learn and develop.

Your pay_ - _our Support Workers receive a rate of £11.00 per hour for all worked hours. Once you are successful for a role with us, full details of your pay will be included in your written offer.

As a ‘values based’ employer, the people that work for us genuinely care about the people they support, and we are seeking likeminded people to join our AFG family. If you are passionate about caring for others and have a real desire to make a positive difference to the lives of the people we support then we would love to hear from you.

**More about this vacancy...**
We asked the Team Leader to tell us more about this role and the amazing person that we need to work here.
***:

- Where is this vacancy based?_
This vacancy is based in Lancaster.
- Who do you support?_
We currently have 1 young gent who lives in the property and are working on voids to fill a further 2 rooms so once full there will be 3 people to support living together. The gent currently living here likes to go on long walks which can be as much as 9 miles, he attends a walking group, drama group is a member of a swimming venue with access and use to the gym, sauna and jacuzzi staff also get into the water with him. Go walks to town regular and this can be via a very steep hill we support him with his living kills and together attend to cooking and domestic duties in the running of the house.
- Where do they live?_
The property is 4 bedroom semi detached with large gardens front and rear and a large drive at the front. This property has very steep hills used to access the City centre on a regular basis
- What would a typical shift be like?_
The shifts can be all day sleeps or day shifts, we are staffed 24hrs a day and the sleep shift is separate to hours worked 22:00-07:00 there is a sleep rate of pay this is not hourly paid. The house is up and about on the go from 7am and often shift change over can be around 9 or 10am some shifts include a longer length than other days depending on activity of the day. We go out in the community almost every day and also attend functions the person is invited to with him
- What activities do the people that we support at this property like to do?_
They like to listen to music on Alexa, sing karaoke style in house attend to all house chores including laundry needs and ironing as person we support is not able to iron. Support to collect weekly shopping and attend walking group, drama group, swimming, any other activity of choice in use of 1:1 hours allocated to him we also support with all meal preperation with him as he is upskilling.

We go out daily and have a very steep hill to access town we need people who do not suffer with mobility concerns to ensure we reach our persons activities every week. He loves to attend h

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