Reliefsupport Worker

**Relief** **Support Worker
- West Lothian Area**

**£10.90 per hour.**

**Are you empathetic and have experience in looking after other people’s needs?**

**The Role**

You will be supporting service users to live an ordinary life with bespoke levels of support in various areas in West Lothian. Our Support Workers provide a person centred approach in providing quality support, which makes our service very flexible and adaptable to each individual’s needs. We support people to enhance their quality of life at home and within their community.

You will work as part of a team, as well as independently to support individuals with a learning disability; working in the person's own home ensuring opportunities to reach their full potential. Due to service requirements this role would require flexibility across various shift patterns seven days a week.

Support needs can range from: enabling a person to participate in their personal care, medication, emotional support, daily living activities, social support and sleepover cover.

The role of a Support Worker is integral to the quality of support provision and can be rewarding and inspiring. You will support people to identify and work towards meaningful outcomes and to participate in their community and develop new and maintain existing relationships. Experience of supporting with challenging behaviour would be beneficial.

An enhanced PVG is required for this role.

**Benefits and Rewards**
- A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
- Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
- An employer contributory pension scheme

**In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits**:

- Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)
- £10,000 Life cover
- A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
- A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- A financial wellbeing scheme
- Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
- Recognition Initiatives

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

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.