Learning Disability Support Worker

7 months ago


Wokingham, United Kingdom Hightown Housing Association Full time

**Learning disability support worker (Supported Living)**

At Hightown, we're a housing charity that **builds homes and supports people**. In Berkshire around Bracknell, Sandhurst, Crowthorne and Wokingham we provide **high-quality care** and support to adults with learning and physical disabilities.

We are looking for some great new Learning Disability Support Workers to join our teams in Wokingham supporting adults with learning disabilities in a supported living environment to achieve their dreams. **We have full time, part time and casual roles available.**

**Who we are looking for**

We're keen to recruit individuals who care regardless of qualifications or experience. We care more about you sharing and demonstrating our values, which are:

- Putting our residents and service users **first**:

- Treating people with **respect**, promoting independence and choice
- Developing **passionate** and committed teams
- Being **cost effective** without compromising standards or safety

We will give you all the training and support you need to be a Learning Disability Support Worker including a qualification in health and social care, if you don't already have one.

**If you share our values, we'd love you to work for us.**

As a Learning Disability Support Worker you will be empowering our service users to **lead the life they want** and you'll support them to go out walks, going by car on day trips, to the cinema and bowling. You'll join **a supportive team **with a** 'can do' attitude** who engage with our residents to find new things for the service users to join in with whether it's arts and crafts, cooking or a Friday night disco. As part of the role you will be required to provide personal care and support with eating and drinking.

We have various hours available ranging from 2 hours per week to 37.5 hours per week with some weekend shifts available.

You will need to want to work shifts (full or part time), hold a uk driving licence and have access to a car for work, unfortunately at this time we cannot offer visa sponsorship and you will therefore need to demonstrate the right to work in the UK

**The benefits**

In return for your hard work and commitment as a Learning Disability Support Worker, we offer a considerable benefits package which includes:

- Generous annual leave allowance of 33 days per year including bank holidays, rising with service
- Monthly attendance bonus of 1.25% on top of your salary
- Annual **bonuses** based on satisfactory performance
- Regular reviews of salary and cost of living to ensure you receive the market salary for the role. In the last 12 months our salaries have increased by 7.5%
- An organisational commitment to employee health and wellbeing
- Life assurance of three times your annual salary and a workplace pension scheme.
- Youll receive two weeks initial training which well pay you for so youve got the basics in place then well provide you with ongoing training and support to deliver outstanding support
- Fully paid DBS
- A structured rota so you know your work pattern in advance
- A commitment to health and wellbeing with a dedicated counselling support line
- Workplace pension scheme
- Mileage paid for car usage of 45p per mile
- Opportunities to earn extra through overtime

**You will need a full UK driving licence for these roles but you do not need your own car as we have scheme vehicles.**

**How to apply**

If youre interested in joining our friendly teams as a Learning Disability Support Worker, please click on the link below to apply.

Please find below a link to our Learning Disability Support Worker job description to find out more.

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