Support Worker

**Support Worker, Rother Valley View.**

Cristal Care are now recruiting Support staff for our care providing service.

If you are Caring, Dedicated and passionate about improving people’s lives, as well as promoting independence, this could be the role you have been looking for.

The role of a Support worker with Cristal care is varied from day to day and extremely rewarding. Our supported living ethos is very much based on promoting independence, developing skills, and supporting individuals to achieve their dreams, goals, and aspirations.

The individuals we support are at the heart of what we do, we provide enabling support to people with learning disabilities and autism to promote their dignity, individuality, and to help people to fulfil their potential in life. Here at Cristal Care, we want to promote people’s skills and social inclusion and we need dedicated caring people to be a part of our team

**Key duties**:

- Supporting individuals to understand and manage their tenancies.
- Supporting individuals to manage their finances including budgeting, paying utility and tenancy related bills.
- To provide one to one support to individuals to enable them to complete tasks such as housekeeping, cooking, domestic tasks, attending appointments, laundry, and shopping.
- Communicate with colleagues to co-ordinate support and update plans.
- To develop and sustain a positive working relationship with individuals that you support.
- Maintain good records of delivered care and relevant information.
- To ensure that individuals are participating in person centred activities, based on an individual’s wants and needs. This could include swimming, trips to the seaside, local walks etc, based on what the individual likes to do.
- To ensure that personal care needs are met in accordance with their care and support plan.
- To support the individuals, we support to develop and maintain meaningful relationships.

**Desirable skills/experience**:

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with individuals at all levels, including but not limited to, families, external professionals etc
- Good documentation skills
- Experience supporting/caring for others, especially those with a learning disability which could be experience through employment, voluntary work or family experience.
- Health and social care level 2 or 3 is desirable but not essential as we do offer training and recognised qualifications.
- For those wishing to embark on a career within care and don’t feel you have experience, we do offer a comprehensive training package and, on the job, mentoring from a skilled and experienced team.

**Benefits**:

- Guaranteed contracted hours
- Investment in training and personal development
- Pension
- Enhanced disclosure cost coverage
- Increased pay to cover Christmas & new year bank holidays rates of pay
- Regular probation meetings and supervision.
Company progression supported

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

**Salary**: £9.80 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Day range:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekends only

Physical setting:

- Care home
- Residential home

Shift:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Swallownest: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location