Support Worker

**Are you looking to make a positive difference to people’s lives?**

**Position: Support Worker**

**Salary: £9.80 - £10.35 per hour + £1000 Welcome Bonus**

**Service: North Supported Living, Rawtenstall**

**Our Benefits**
- Dedicated career ladder for those with NVQ level 2 or 3 earn up to £10.35 per hour.
- Free DBS
- Life assurance benefit of twice annual basic salary
- Wagestream - Avoid bank fees and withdraw up to 40% of your wages as you earn them before payday via the Wagestream app.
- Comprehensive induction and excellent training
- Recognition Awards, including long service awards
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Refer a friend scheme - Receiving up to £500 per referral
- Employee benefits platform providing discounts at over 150 retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme, confidential telephone counselling and legal advice
- Health & Wellbeing portal

**About the Role**

Consensus Community Support Limited in the Rawtenstall area, provides supported living services to people with learning disabilities and a range of complex needs across the North of England area. Supporting people who have a greater level of independence, individuals have their own tenancy and a separate support package which is provided by Consensus.

Support is bespoke and person-centred for everyone to meet their goals and aspirations and how they wish to live their life. The focus is on ensuring that people who live in the services lead meaningful lives within the local community with choice and control over their lives.

You will be supporting a young gentleman to live an independent life within the Rossendale area. He has keen interests in taking daily walks in the local area, going to football to play and to watch his favourite team, picnics, animals, swimming and watching his favourite TV programmes, gaming on his xbox, he also loves to be creative with arts and crafts. Staff supporting him will need to have stamina and patience and be able to engage in such activities. He appreciates staff with a good sense of humour, a sense of fun and playfulness. Driver is essential for this role. The shift patten you will work includes long days and sleep in shifts.

You’ll be responsible for supporting an inclusive lifestyle within the community as individuals attend local colleges or day trips out. Develop greater independence and daily living skills by assisting with the upkeep of the service, preparing meals, shopping, and domestic duties. Providing help with personal care such as washing, bathing, and dressing whilst working across various shift patterns including early, late and weekend or night shifts. Full time and part time positions are available.

If you enjoy working as part of a team, are patient and caring with a positive attitude and are looking to join a growing organisation with great benefits, we would love to hear from you. You may be new to care, already have experience in the social care sector or the NHS as a Mental Health Support Worker, Care Worker, Healthcare Assistant or Care Assistant. We also recruit for attitude and personality so, if you don’t have all the right skills, we can provide a full induction, relevant training, and the support you need to get the most from your role.

**Our Values**

We employ people who share in our values so we can ensure the highest standards of support for the people who live in our homes, their families, and the commissioners we work with.
- **Choice & Respect, Ambition & Imagination, Reliability & Professionalism**:

- **Honesty & Integrity, Responsibility & Accountability, Inclusive & Supportive**

As a leading provider, our commitment to delivering the highest standards of support within our services is nationally recognised and validated by the many awards we receive, the consistently high ratings we receive from national regulators and our ethos of continuous improvement. **Want to hear more about the role? Call our dedicated in-house recruitment team on
01206 417573
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