Support Worker

Job Role

**Our Client is looking to hire a Support Worker**

**Location**:Bicester Support Services, OX26 Oxfordshire (Direct train routes from Oxford OX1, Islip OX5, - 5 Minutes walk from Bicester Village train station)**

**Salary**:£10.30 perhour **+ holiday pay, sick pay, retail and social discounts, and other benefits**

**Hours: 37.5 hours per week on a shift basis**
- **Shift Patterns: 7.30 am - 3.00 pm, 2:30 pm**:

- 10.00 pm, 10:00 **pm**:

- 7:30am** (waking night)**:

- **Monday to Sunday**:

- **Additional £816 per year based on 2 wakings nights per month**:

- **Bank hours also available**

**Develop professionally to achieve professional qualifications -**Care Certificate, QCF levels 2-5**, at no cost to you
- **28 days holiday**(incl. bank holidays), increasing to 36 days with long service (1 extra day for each year of service)
- **Discounts and cashback** at hundreds of shops, restaurants, and activities, plus eligibility for **Blue Light Card discounts**
**Full UK driving licence preferred but not essential.**

**About the role**

As a support worker your contribution will be invaluable. You’ll work as a team to provide support for people who have Autism and Learning Disabilities; helping them to live as independently as possible. Through skillful interactions and involvement in personcentred planning and partnership working you’ll work with them and their families, to provide excellent, person centred support, which is both safe, maximises choice and control and identifies outcomes that improve the quality of their everyday life.

You’ll be part of a team that includes support from a positive behaviour support consultant. Your day-to-day management will come from an experienced, passionate leader who will work alongside you. This will assist you with your own leadership and interactionsthat will in turn enable people to move forward in their lives creating community connections, friends, hobbies, interests, and work. Being passionate, creative and values led will really help you in achieving the small and bigger goals and outcomes that theyall see as part of a safe, happy, healthy and empowering life. A big part of your role as a support worker will be supporting people to do activities they like and take part in new activities these may include: college courses, arts and crafts, gardening,bowling, trips to the cinema and theatre, shopping, meals out, going to the pub, holidays away, picnics, activity days and many activities they have not even thought of yet

**About you**

As a support worker you will be looking for full-time or part-time role and happy to work on a rota basis, covering a combination of mornings, evenings and weekend support.

Although they welcome you if you've been a Care Assistant, Support Worker or equivalent, experience isn’t necessary. Their values are of upmost importance to them, paired with a kind, caring and an enthusiastic approach.

If this, is you, then they would love to hear from you. They are looking for people who embrace differences, promote inclusivity and value and respect one another.

**About them**

Registered as The Royal School for the Blind, they is one of the oldest disability charities in the UK and has pioneered specialist support for over 220 years.

They specialise in supporting people who have learning disabilities or autism, who may also have sight loss, to live ambitious lives and achieve things they never thought possible. Whether that is forming more friendships and relationships, enjoying newexperiences and activities or finding employment.

**Training and Development**

They fully support your training and development. You will start with an extensive Induction programme and throughout your probationary period you will be equipped with face-to-face training, e-learning and guidance to support you whilst in your new role.

Your continued development is important to them, therefore, they offer the means to progress your career, your way You will learn and be supported in your role, and have the opportunity achieve professional qualifications - Care Certificate, QCF levels2-5, which are funded by them.

**Your extraordinary opportunities**
- **Leadership development academy** and talent programme for the next steps in your career
- Fully paid essential **training**:

- Funded **professional qualifications** - Care Certificate, QCF levels 2-5 available
- Annual **excellence awards**:

- **Long service**awards and recognition
- **Quarterly 1:1’s**: Opportunity to discuss your progress and your future

**Your work-life balance**
- **28 days** holiday (incl. bank holidays), increasing to 36 days with long service (**1 extra day for each year of service**)
- **Buy and sell** up to 3 days annual leave
- **Life events**: Time off when you need it most
- **Flexible Working**: They are up for anything that works for your team and the wider organisation

**Your money goes further**
- **Discounts and cashback** at hundreds of shops, restaurants and activities
- Eligible for**Blue Light Card**discounts
- Save **10%** on monthly bus travel
- **Pay reviews** and commitment to pay competitive rates
- Employer **contributory pension** scheme: Support and tools to help you make the right decisions about your future
- Refer a friend and receive **£600**:

- Paid **DBS** and renewals
- **Season ticket** loans
- Discounted **mobile phone options**

**Your wellbeing counts**
- **Life assurance** of 2x annual salary
- Free 24/7 **employee assistance programme** for advice and support
- Free **eye care** vouchers
- Discounted **Gym** Membership