Maternity Cover Support Worker

**Learning Disabilities Support Worker**

**Location: Farnborough**

**Salary: £23,760 FTE (£19,760 Basic + £3000 Market Rate Allowance)**
- **Additional 1/3 salary Night ShiftAllowance ¼ Salary Weekend Shift Allowance**_

**Contract Type: Temp 12 Months - Maternity Cover**

**YOU **is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives.

**Essential Requirements**
- Be willing to work alternate weekends and bank holidays
- Be able to work late and/or early shifts
- Be able to cover sleep-in shifts as required as part of a rota
- Be a good communicator, and work well as part of a team
- Have experience working with vulnerable people

**The Role**:
Our staff members make a real difference. As a Support Worker you will be assisting people with a learning disability in their own home, and in the community to live the life they want. You will provide safe, person-centred support, promote independent living skills and help make clients’ hopes and aspirations a reality. Our staff support clients to go to the cinema, theatre trips, out for meals or a cup of coffee and even go on the odd shopping trip. How often do you get to do all of these fun things in a day job?

We also assist clients to find work or volunteering opportunities, access education at local colleges, get involved in community events, as well as helping with budgeting support, some personal care, cooking and cleaning and maintaining a home.

**About You**:

- Understand promoting independence
- Understand the needs of people with a learning disability
- Understand confidentiality and how this applies to clients

The people we support are looking for someone who is happy with a good sense of humour to work with them to achieve what they need when they need it. Their interests are wide and varied and include gardening, going to the cinema, going out for meals and lots of different leisure activities. They also want someone who is considerate when supporting with personal care and medication, able to offer cooking support and help to prevent the build up of debt through support with finances. They want a hardworking, polite, friendly and respectful person to do these things with.

**YOU** has a strong value base, striving to be person-centred, innovative, trustworthy, can-do and excellent at all times, so it is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.

**Our Benefits**

If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

- Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing.
- Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.
- Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.
- Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave.
- Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes.
- Real opportunities to develop in your profession.
- Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
- Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day
- Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites, as well as discounted bus travel on the First bus network.
- A company that is committed to its employees, valuing their knowledge, creativity and flexibility.
- The chance to work with amazing people.

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**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary contract

**Salary**: £23,760.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free or subsidised travel
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Night shift

**Experience**:

- working with Adults with Learning Disabilities: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: On the road