Support Worker

**Location**:West Street, Biddulph

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Hours of Work**:30 hours per week covering a 7 day rota

**Shift Pattern**:08:00am to 15:00pm or 15:00 to 22:00pm

**Please note due to the nature of the service, we can only accept female applicants.**

**Are you seeking a new challenge that lets you shine with your caring and compassionate nature? If you are looking to build a meaningful career rather than just finding your next job, we would love to hear from you**

**About West Street**:
At West Street, we provide a diverse range of care to individuals with learning and physical disabilities along with safety, security and reassurance with a range of care options available to meet their individual needs. Our vibrant communities thrive on connection and joy, offering activities tailored to what our residents love most. Together, we create a warm, engaging environment where everyone feels valued and supported.

Here at West Street rated ‘’Good’’ by CQC, we offer a wide variety of community access, such as, visits to cafes and lunches out, day trips, bingo, coffee mornings, pamper sessions, musical sessions. We support up to 4 female individuals with everyday support including personal care, meal time support, medicine administration, managing finances and help with budgeting.

Joining our team at West Street, will mean that you will play a vital role in promoting and enabling inclusivity, individuality and independence through respectfully supporting our tenants who lead active lives exploring their interests.

To find out more about our residential schemes, click **Here**

We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate that they up hold our values, to ensure that the services to our customers are excellent. As a Support Worker, you will bring the below values and behaviours.
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Caring -**Placing individuals at the heart of the care, ensuring services are delivered with empathy, dignity, respect, inclusivity and integrity at all times
- ** Compassion -**Requires a level of consideration, patience, empathy and understanding towards others people’s situation and their needs
- ** Communication -**Always listen carefully, speak to people and act in a way that the person can understand
- ** Courage -**Not to be fearful of trying new things to improve the quality of care and raise any concerns proactively
- ** Commitment -**Provide a positive environment, with flexible and a proactive approach to our customer’s needs, helping to make each day special. Working collaboratively with colleagues and be accountable for providing services that make a positive difference to people’s lives.

**If you are a caring, compassionate person, with good communication skills, and committed to delivering quality care and support services, then this could be the career opportunity for you**

Further details of the role, responsibilities and requirements are available in the Job description and Person Specification attached.

**Benefits**:
In return, we offer you a rewarding opportunity within a supportive team of experienced mentors and peers, ensuring you thrive throughout your career.
- Continuous professional development with training, coaching, and mentoring
- Enhanced maternity, shared parental, and adoption leave
- Free onsite parking
- Paid Carer’s leave
- You will have access to our comprehensive training platform
- Access to a number of fantastic rewards including free and discounted tickets to popular destinations
- Access to our discounts and cashback app Rainly from day one
- Access to Blue Light Discount
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Long service recognition scheme

**Our Inclusive Culture**:
The Wrekin Housing Group is an inclusive employer committed to supporting all employees. We know that people perform better when they can be themselves, creating a culture which is inclusive is crucial to the success of our organisation. All employees have the opportunity to become part of one of our networking groups, that enables them to make a positive contribution to our culture including networks such as our LGBTQ+ employee group, disability positive, domestic abuse ambassadors, heritage and culture and our allies’ network.

**About Us**:
**Choices Housing Association, part of the Housing Plus Group is a leading provider of homes across a range of tenures, to meet identified housing needs and regulated care services to help people live independently.**

Our dedicated and diverse colleagues are critical to our success. We value our people and offer them challenging and worthwhile careers, providing a sense of achievement in a vital sector. It is important that we offer opportunities to inspire our people to help us to make a positive difference to our customers’ homes, lives and communities.

We support adults with learning disabilities to live their best life possible by promoting their personal development and independence.

**Recruitment process**:
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