Support Worker

5 months ago


Carrickfergus, United Kingdom Sense Employees Full time

**Looking for a new challenge?**:
It's an exciting time at Sense, we now have an opportunity for** Support Workers **to join our **residential day service in Carrickfergus**,** Northern Ireland**.

**We have permanent contracts available up to 37.5 hours per week**, with a variation of shifts over a 2 week rolling rota.

Edenvale Avenue is a 10 bedded residential service supporting individuals with sensory impairment and/or complex needs, a beautiful service, offering a supportive working environment which is commitment to quality, and an emphasis on training and development of our staff

The high staffing ratios reflect Sense’s commitment to provide high quality services that meet the unique needs of the people we support.

**We’re looking for enthusiastic applicants who are**:

- Positive, with a can-do attitude.
- Caring and empathetic.
- Passionate about enhancing other people’s lives.
- Willing to work towards relevant qualifications.

**This role in Carrickfergus might include supporting people with**:

- Everyday tasks like cooking and cleaning.
- Personal care and hygiene.
- Finances.
- Medication and wellbeing.
- Going into the community for shopping or other trips.
- Their social life and nightlife.

Everyone we support in is an individual, so their care is as unique as they are. You can see a more detailed description of duties in the job description attached at the bottom of this advert.

**Why work for Sense?**:
Sense is a national disability charity supporting everyone who is deafblind or has complex disabilities. We believe everyone should be able to take part in life, no matter their disability.

Our work empowers thousands of people who are deafblind or have complex disabilities to communicate, experience the world and fulfill their potential.

Work at Sense can be demanding and so isn’t for everyone, but it is also incredibly rewarding and valuable. Take a look at the video below to see why we do what we do.

**Benefits**:

- 24 days’ holiday + bank holidays; increasing with length of service
- Free Access NI Check
- Headspace app****:

- Free leadership and management development
- Free access to over 100 online and face to face training including the care certificate.
- On-going development opportunities
- Flexible working and family friendly policies
- Employee referral scheme
- Health and well-being support
- Pension Scheme.

**Ready to make a difference?**:
**To apply**

No agency submissions please: any submissions without prior authorisation from the Sense Recruitment Team will be treated as our own and as such no fee will be payable.


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