Support Worker

Support Worker

**Pay**: £11.50 Days / Nights - £12.50 / Bank Holidays - £18.00

**Refer a Friend Scheme - £100 awarded (T&C's apply)**

**Company description**

We are a specialist care provider that supports individuals who have a learning disability and are on the autism spectrum. We provide a flexible, person-centred approach with a focus on supporting those who display significant behaviours of concern.

We offer a broad spectrum of flexible personalised care carried out by our multi-disciplinary team. Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) Practitioners and Learning disability nurses offer a wide range of skills and experience in specialised assessments, planning and delivering the right support.

Here at LDA Care we don’t anticipate ‘smooth sailing’ with the people we are serving. The individuals we support may have experienced abuse, rejection and trauma. Some individuals may exhibit symptoms of post-traumatic stress, have experienced institutionalisation, and may have missed out on everyday processes of socialisation. Each has inherent and acquired ‘disabilities', however, experience tells us with the right skilled relationship-based support and the opportunity to experience a rich and meaningful life, these individuals can have and be so much more.

LDA Care are looking for people who will demonstrate the competence (or enthusiasm to acquire the competence) to provide excellent personalised social, and sometimes clinical level behavioural, support to people with learning disabilities and autism in their own homes.

This is the part where you come in, come and join us delivering **holistic **care, achieving great **outcomes **and enabling **meaningful environments**

**H**olistic

**O**utcomes

**M**eaningful

**E**nvironments

We currently have a great opportunity for dedicated Care Workers to work with an individual who has a learning disability, autism and mental health support needs. The individual will be living on their own so we are looking for Care Workers who can provide 360 wrap around support that covers all aspects of their life.

**To be part of the team we are also looking for the following**:

- Prepared to work as part of a fantastic team and deliver great communication
- Have a positive attitude to enhancing people's lives
- Be approachable
- Empathetic to individual’s needs & communication difficulties
- Must be able to stay calm & responsive in potentially stressful situations
- Flexible with the shifts required to work on a rota including Weekend & Bank Holidays.

**About The Role**

You will be part of a small team of dedicated Support Workers and working alongside the Team Leader and PBS practitioner in providing excellent support to a young man who requires everyday support to enjoy a quality life. This young man has a moderate learning disability and autism and needs a team to help him access the community and develop his skills within his home and out of it.

You, the other Support Workers and the Team Leader will also be implementing the PBS strategies under the guidance and direction of the PBS Practitioner who has assessed his needs and understands the correct strategies to enable him to receive quality outcomes and empower him to fulfil his desires. You will be a positive role model and you will bring our values to life and share our passion and commitment to always strive to find creative ways to enrich the lives of those we support.

You will have a willingness to undertake training on Positive Behaviour Support, safeguarding vulnerable adults, autism, learning disabilities, and person centred planning, Total communication and other specific training that will be provided. You will be line managed by the Team Leader

**What's in it for you?**
- Contracts
- Great Pay
- Pension Enrolment
- Standard Sick Pay
- Free training
- Weekly pay
- Paid holiday
- Coaching throughout your role
- Opportunities to progress

**COVID-19 considerations**:
All support workers must adhere to government guidelines about their injections.

**Schedule**:

- 12 hour shift - 08:00 to 20:00 / 20:00 to 08:00
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
- Overtime

**Licence/Certification**:

- Autism (preferred)
- Full UK Driving Licence Manual Cars Only (MUST)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £11.50-£18.00 per hour

Day range:

- Monday to Friday

Shift:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift

Application question(s):

- Are you comfortable providing personal care?

**Experience**:

- Supporting with Autism: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (Manual Cars Only) (required)

Shift availability:

- Day shift (preferred)
- Night shift (preferred)

Work Location: On the road