Casual Support Worker

**Casual Support Worker**

**Salary**: £10.92 per hour (inclusive of applicable allowances and entitlements)
**Location**: Warwick

**Flexible hours which may include days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays**

Do you want to support your community? Looking for flexible working hours?

We’re looking to take on Casual Support Workers to help us support people with learning disabilities or mental health conditions.

If you are passionate about improving the lives of local, vulnerable people and are determined to support those who need it more than ever then this could be the opportunity for you Working in support isn’t just another job. This could be a great opportunity for you to develop skills for life and try something new whilst simultaneously helping people who need that extra support.

**About the Role**

As a Casual Support Worker, you will help people with mental health problems or learning disabilities in their home or out in the community. This might include motivating someone to eat healthily or to visit the gym, or providing support to a person with emotional problems.

We are excited to recruit Casual Support Workers to join our team in Warwick You will be working with a dedicated support team and in partnership with other agencies to provide an excellent service. You will be passionate about ensuring the service we deliver is person-centred in supporting these individuals to develop their confidence, skills, and independence in their homes and in the local community including:

- Maintaining their homes
- Budgeting and shopping
- Planning and preparing meals
- Prompting for medication
- 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.
- There may be an element of personal care.

**About You**
- Are flexible, reliable and proactive
- Are supportive of the customers’ goals to live the lifestyle of their choosing
- Are willing to learn new skills
- Work with a person-centred approach.

**About Advance**

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
- Paid holiday
- Full, professional training and the opportunity to work towards care qualifications
- Free DBS check
- Support from an experienced team leader
- 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.