Casual Support Worker

**Position**:Casual Support Workers

**Location**: Hampshire

**Hours**: Zero hour contract (Mon-Sun, including weekends, evenings, holidays, waking nights and sleep-ins)

**Salary**:£12.53 per hour inclusive of holiday pay or, £11.18 per hour exclusive of holiday pay

**Job ref**:HAM-HAM-SER-003514

**About the Role**:
Are you caring, fun and up for a challenge Are you looking for a career where you get to make a difference to people’s lives Do you love the idea of no two days being the same If so, we want to hear from you.

Advance is looking for a Casual Support Worker in Hampshire to support customers with Learning Disabilities/ Autism/ Complex needs/ mental health conditions to live the lives they choose. We offer great benefits, flexible working and all the training and support you need to kick start a rewarding career in Social Care.

You don’t need to have previous experience working in care or support to be successful in this role. What matters are your values, your passion and determination to make a difference in the lives of people with Autism or learning disabilities.

Whether you want to work a few hours a week, or full-time, if you think a Casual Support Worker role sounds right for you, you will need to be:

- Flexible to work on a rolling rota.
- Good at working on your own and within a team
- Excellent at communicating with people.
- Able to complete good quality support records.
- You will be able to work weekends.
- You must be able to offer sleep ins.

**_ For more information about the role please contact, Laura Hayward_**_ _**_on 07841862448_**

**About the organisation**:
We are 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.

We are very proud of the work we do and the difference we make to our customers' lives every day. We recognise that our people are our greatest asset, that’s why we invest in training and development and enable staff 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.

**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.