Care and Support Worker

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

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

Reports to: Locality Leader and Deputy Locality Leader

Hours of work: Full time, 40 hours per week (Hours will be worked flexibly across the week, including evenings and weekends. You may be required to provide some sleep-in and waking night duties)

**Salary**: £12.21 per hour. Wages paid monthly on or around 23rd of each month.

Place of work: Wincheap Locality residential care home and Supported living house

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: Sunday, 18th May 2025

Main purpose of the role:
As a Care and Support Worker you will:

- Support 11 people with learning disabilities in a variety of settings in line with agreed support plans in all aspects of their daily lives.
- Promote and enable choice, independence, self determination to people with a learning disability through practical, physical and emotional support
- Contribute to creating a sense of community as a place of mutuality and belonging.

**Person Centred Support**
- 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 to in their ongoing development of independence

**Building an atmosphere of mutual relationships**
- 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 KENT**

We are people with and without learning disability, on a mission to build a world where everyone belongs. As a movement of life-sharing Communities, we help each other live full and empowered lives, enriched with belonging, kindness, creativity, fun and joy.We seek every opportunity to celebrate the gifts and contributions of people with learning disabilities. We lookto grow by building mutual relationships across our diversity and differences, and to work together for a more human society.

L’Arche Kent is the oldest of the 11 UK L’Arche communities, calling Canterbury a home since 1974.Our Community includes currently 28 people with learning disabilities, who we support at home, as well as volunteers, friends, neighbours and L’Arche assistants. Some of the people we support choose to live in their own flat, others prefer to share their home with one or more housemates who have a learning disability and perhaps with L'Arche assistants as well.

**As well as joining a friendly Community, where you will be well supervised and supported, and benefit from L’Arche’s mentorship programme, these 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
- Achieve professional qualifications while benefiting from exceptional training and development opportunities.
- 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
- Access to the Bike to Work scheme

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

The closing date is Sunday, 18th May 2025

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