Support Worker

Support Worker

**Pay**: £14.50 per hour

**Refer a Friend Scheme - £250 awarded (T&C's apply*)**

We are committed to Equal opportunities. We are currently recruiting for Full time, Part time & Bank Support Workers to support an individual with Autism, learning disability, ADHD and Prader Willi syndrome in **Bedale Area**on a 2:1 basis**.**

**Please note we are not a recruitment agency.**

**Please also note this role will also be involving transistioning work from Telford to Bedale to be fully settled into my new home.**

**About the individual**

Hi I am young adult in my ealy twenties and I have diagnoses of Prader Willi Syndrome, Autism, ADHD and learning difficulties. My behaviour has been described as challenging, although I think that sometimes people just see my difficulties and don’t work to understand me as a whole person. I can get anxious and frustrated when I find things difficult, but most importantly I am smiley, excitable, enthusiastic and loving. I have a great sense of humour and I enjoy making people laugh.

I am extremely sociable; my family say that I have always made friends wherever I go, and manage to make everyone smile with my happy-go-lucky personality. I love the over-the-top glitz and glamour of show business: I enjoy talking about and going to see musicals, and my absolute favourite TV programme is Strictly Come Dancing (each year my dad takes me to the show’s live tour - this is the best night of my year).

I am happiest when singing or dancing, or when talking about my football team Manchester City. My family are really important to me, and I enjoy visits from my parents and sister, as well as extended family. My family have a dog who I love to talk about and cuddle with when he visits, and I also volunteer at a dog shelter where I enjoy walking the rescue dogs regularly with my staff. Day to day, I need to be kept busy, I like doing my dog walking, and I also enjoy youth clubs, discos, swimming, horse riding, going to the pub and bowling. I would like to look at more activities available for me and I need support workers who are enthusiastic to support me with these.

My condition means that food is very important to me and my care, I need support workers that can keep boundaries with me around food to keep me safe. I do love cooking and every Sunday I cook a roast dinner for myself and staff - I like treating my staff and making them happy. I am very chatty and bubbly, and so my staff need to be able to give me the same energy back, and I love hugs.

**To be part of their team, they are looking for the following qualities from a team member**:

- Trustworthy - it is really important to me that I can build strong relationships with those around me and that I am able to feel happy and cared for. My staff team is a second family to me.
- Kind - Able to form a trusting professional and friendly relationship - due to traumas in my life, positive and caring relationships with my staff are very important (I like to call them my other family)
- Outgoing, bubbly, smiley, funny, good sense of humour - I love ‘banter’
- Compassionate but able to put in boundaries - it is important for my health and anxieties that my staff implement and maintain boundaries around food to keep me safe
- Structure and reliability - I need structure to allow me to feel safe and supported
- Communication - you need to be able to communicate with me and my family well. My family are very involved and I am very close to them, I want them to help you best support me in my new forever home.
- A good listener who is understanding and empathetic - I need someone to listen to my worries and views
- Proactive & Creative & Encouraging and enthusiastic - sometimes when I am not feeling great, I will need staff to encourage me to do activities -although I like time to relax, it is important I keep fit through things like walking and swimming
- Confident in working with me when times are hard and my anxiety is displayed through behaviours that challenge

**What's in it for you?**

- **£250 when you introduce a Friend **
- Contract
- Great Pay
- Pension Enrolment
- Standard Sick Pay
- Free training
- Weekly pay
- Paid holiday
- Ongoing Training / Coaching throughout your role
- Opportunities to progress & develop

**Schedule**:

- 12 hour shifts 08:00 - 20:00 / 20:00 - 08:00
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
- Overtime

**Licence/Certification**:

- Mental Health or Autism **(MUST)**
- Driving Licence **(MUST)**
- Prader Willi Syndrome** (MUST)**

- **_Refer a friend bonus is payable at_**

- £125 once the referred individual has successfully completed their first shift.

- £125 once the referred individual has successfully completed their probation period.

INDMP