Male Support Worker

Package Description
**Male Support Worker**

**£9.90 - £10.40* per hour**

**We are urgently seeking full time and part time Support Workers to join our team in Swansea**

One thing that is for sure is that joining our team at The Paddocks will be fulfilling and rewarding, offering you stability with the opportunity to grow and develop your career further. Many of our Managers and Team Leaders joined us as a Support Worker and through ongoing training and coaching they are continuing to move further up the accomplish ladder

The Paddocks in Swansea supports up to 5 adults with Mental Health needs. The staff team understand that recovery is a journey and through outcome focused approaches, they support people to achieve their goals. This Mental Health recovery residential service supports people to build on their strengths, skills and resilience.

As a Support Worker, you will be involved in the day to day support of the people within the service including (but not limited to) help with personal care, budgeting, shopping, cleaning, cooking, laundry and assistance with medication. Each and every person we support is unique so we encourage our teams to get creative, promoting each individuals independence, choice and dignity whilst still having plenty of fun along the way.

Experience within the care sector is not essential as we offer full training, however what you do need is the enthusiasm and commitment to live our company values every day to ensure we move mountains to support people to live happy and healthy lives.

**Why join us**:

- **Annual leave**:

- 5.6 weeks holiday per year
- **DBS Check **- we cover the cost of your DBS check and further renewals
- **Duvet Days** - get rewarded for coming into work with an extra day off for full attendance
- **Cycle to Work Scheme **- a healthy way to travel to work
- **Wellbeing Support, Advice and Guidance** - via our Employee Assistance Program though an online portal or over the telephone
- **Qualifications** - we can support you to obtain a range of QCF’s opening up further career opportunities
- **Staff Referral Scheme **- earn up to a very generous £1,000 for referring a friend to join our team at accomplish
- **Induction**:

- We pay for you to attend our comprehensive induction and on-going training
- **Accomplish Stars - **All of our employees are stars in our eyes and do some amazing things each and every day. Our employees can be awarded with an Accomplish Star and each month, a star is rewarded with a fantastic prize
- **Discounts at Highstreet retailers, days out, gifts, holidays and even when buying a car -** available via a Blue Light card that you will have access to as a Health and Social Care Employee
- **Long Service Awards** - receive 2 weeks extra annual leave and 2 weeks’ pay for reaching 10 years’ service
- **Health Scheme** - employees can opt into paying for a cash healthcare plan through their salary. This enables employees to claim back money towards general day to day healthcare such as opticians and dentists

Keys Group brings together three of the UK’s leading and longest-established providers of specialist education, care and activities; Accomplish, Keys and Peak. The organisation provides specialist support and education for more than 2,000 children, young people, adults and families in services and schools across England and Wales.

Specialist residential and supported living services for adults with a learning disability, autism, mental health needs and acquired brain injury are provided throughout England and Wales by **Accomplish.**

**Keys** offers education and care services for children, young people and families across England and Wales through its specialist schools, residential children’s homes, activity and intervention and leaving care services, adult resource centre and family assessment centres.

Activities are offered by **Peak** through its seven specialist adventure centres including water sports, treetop and climbing centres, across England

**Please note we require a Male Support workers over the age of 18 due to a genuine occupational requirement for the people we are supporting making this position exempt from the gender discrimination rule**
- an additional 50p per hour is honoured following 12 months continual employment where all statutory training is up to date.

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