Care and Support Worker

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**Care and Support Worker, L'Arche Highland**

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

Hours of work: 37.5 hours, working on shift/rota basis 5 days a week with 2 free days, including weekends and evenings.

**Salary**: £12.20 per hour

Place of work: L'Arche Highland Community Houses, Inverness

Contract type: Permanent, Full-Time

Closing date: Saturday, 30 November, 2024 at 23:59.

**Main purpose of the role**:
As a Care and Support Worker, you will support people with learning disabilities living in a variety of settings, in line with agreed support and care plans, in all aspects of their everyday lives.

You will deliver practical, physical and emotional support to people with learning disabilities, whilst proactively promoting choice, independence, and self-determination.

**Person Centred Support**

You will:

- Provide high-quality support to people with learning disabilities in line with L’Arche values, policies and procedures;

**Support of people with learning disabilities**
- Assist with the personal hygiene, dress and health needs of individuals in their home;
- Facilitate individuals to meet their leisure, social, practical and spiritual needs;
- Encourage individuals in their ongoing development of independence;

**Building an atmosphere of mutual relationships**

You will:

- Foster positive relationships with both assistants and people with a learning disability;
- Assist in celebrations and support spiritual life so that there is an atmosphere of welcome and friendship;

**ABOUT L'ARCHE HIGHLAND**

L’Arche Highland** **is a Community of around 132 people, including folk with and without learning disabilities, Support Assistants, volunteers, friends and neighbours, based in Inverness. We are part of a global network of communities where people with and without learning disabilities live and share in life together, working for a world where we all belong. We have a workshop and four large shared houses. We also support people to live in their own properties.

We provide supported living opportunities in one of our four shared houses, keeping that original community spirit, or to folk in their own homes, depending upon preference and need. This support ranges from 24/7 one-to-one support to 40 hours per week. This role is to support a person with learning disability living independently in their home in the Holm area of Inverness.

**As well as joining our friendly Community, where you will be well supervised and supported, and benefit from L'Arche mentorship program, there are some other benefits you get by working for us**:

- Joining shared meals since cooking and having a meal together is what we are all about.
- Paid sick pay, up to a maximum of 7wks (depending on length of service)
- Enhanced Maternity, Adoption/Surrogacy, and Paternity Pay (depending on length of service, details available on request)
- Interest free loans and salary advances available
- Free eye tests and a contribution towards the cost of glasses if you need them for work.
- Free DBS / PVG checks Free SSSC registration
- Free Blue Light Card
- Professional membership fees paid if they are directly relevant to your role
- Free Employee Assistance Programme available to everyone
- Up to 5 days paid compassionate leave
- Up to 6 days paid (pro rata) for time off for emergency dependents leave
- Carer and Childminder costs available in some circumstances to facilitate attendance at residential meetings
- Paid mileage costs at HMRC rate
- Working from Home Allowance for those in office-based roles but for whom no office is provided
- Specialist bereavement counselling for employees and their family members
- Free Life Assurance up to 4 times gross annual salary
- Access to the Bike to Work scheme

A full job description and person specification can be found in the Recruitment Pack.

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