Casual Support Worker

**Casual Support Worker**

**Location**: Newham

**Salary**:£12.44 per hour inclusive of holiday pay, £11.05 per hour exclusive of holiday pay
**Hours**: Various hours (Mon-Sun, including weekends, evenings, holidays, waking nights and sleep-ins)

**Job Ref: LON-NSC-SER-003281**

**A flexible dual role supporting people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities**

**About the role**

Providing support to individuals to meet their particular needs as identified within their support plan enabling them to make informed choices while promoting their privacy and dignity. Duties may include (but is not limited to):

- Laundry and housework
- Food preparation and cooking
- Budgeting and shopping
- Monitoring and/or administering medications
- Being active in the community (employment, study, volunteering and/or leisure activities)
- Maintaining relationships with family and friends
- Social activities
- Accompanying customers to appointments and/or on excursions
- Working in partnership with other agencies and organisations
- For more information about either role or how they combine, please contact Support Manager Mary Adeniran on 07730 541396 _
- Be confident using IT equipment
- Be supportive of the customers’ goals to live the lifestyle of their choosing
- Be willing to learn new skills
- Work with a person-centred approach
- Be able to complete good quality support records
- Have excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Be dedicated and compassionate
- Be good at working on their own and within a team
- Be flexible to work on a rolling rota

Advance is regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing and the Care Quality Commission and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. You will be required to provide evidence of right to work. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be covered by Advance.

**About the organisation**:
Advance is a well-established, national, charitable organisation which provides support to thousands of adults across the UK with learning disabilities and mental health conditions living in the community.

Advance is very proud of the work they do and the difference they make to their customers' lives every day. They recognise that their people are their greatest asset, that’s why they invest in their training and development and enable them to gain industry-recognised qualifications and supporting them in realising their own career aspirations.

Advance is an equal opportunities employer who values its staff and the difference they make to their customers. There is no place for racism or discrimination of any kind in Advance. As an organisation, we will not tolerate it. We are committed to recruiting the best staff whatever their ethnicity, race, religious beliefs or sexual orientation may be. All newly appointed staff receive an induction, during which they will learn about our PRIDE values, our expectations of how they should treat our customers and our commitments in relation to how they will be treated as a member of staff.

Advance hold Disability Confident Leader status.

**Benefits of working for Advance**

We’re a national, charitable organisation, supporting thousands of people across the U.K. We value our staff and the difference they make to the lives of our customers, which is why we offer the following benefits:

- Flexible hours to fit around you and the needs of our customers
- Paid mileage and travel time between appointments
- Generous Holiday allowance starting at 25 days
- Full, professional training and the opportunity to work towards care qualifications
- Free DBS check
- Support from an experienced manager
- Excellent opportunities to progress your career within Advance
- Enrolment in a pension scheme with matched contributions above the statutory minimum (if you work enough hours to meet the threshold for enrolment)

Advance is regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing and the Care Quality Commission, and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. You will be required to provide evidence of right to work. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be covered by Advance.