Support Worker

**Support Worker**

**Salary**: £18,965.93 per annum based on 37.5hrs per week

**Hours**: 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Sun including days, evening, bank holidays and weekends). Occasional sleep-in required. Shifts: 07.30 - 15.00 & 14.30 - 22.00.

**Location**:Kidderminster

**Job Ref**: WOR-KID-SER-003064

**About the Role**

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

You will be passionate about ensuring the service we deliver is person-centred in supporting our customers to develop their confidence, skills, and independence in their homes and in the local community. Tasks include but are not limited to:

- Maintaining their homes
- Budgeting and shopping
- Planning and preparing meals
- Accessing activities in the community (study, volunteering, social/leisure activities)
- Maintaining relationships with family and friends
- Accompanying customers to appointments and/or on excursions
- Laundry and housework
- Support with medication.

**About You**

We would love to hear from you if you are passionate about improving the lives of local, vulnerable people. We do not require you to have previous experience in support work as full training will be given.

If you think a Support Worker role sounds right for you, you will need to:

- Be flexible to work on a rolling rota
- Be good at working on your own and within a team
- Be excellent at communicating with people
- Be able to complete good quality support records
- For more information or an informal chat about this vacancy please call Support Manager, Jackie, on
07738 808 674
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**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 UK. 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 (from 25 days up to 30 days with long service in addition to bank holidays, pro rata)
- 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.