Support Worker

**Job Role: Support Worker**

**Location: Wolverhampton WV6**

**Hours: Part time hours negotiable**

**Shift Pattern**:
Before and after school

Sleeping/waking nights

Weekends

24hr care in the school holidays

**Hourly Rate**:
£13.00 Starting salary (£13.50 after 6 month probation and £14 from 12 months) - Monday to Friday

£15.00 Starting salary (£15.50 after 6 month probation and £16 from 12 months) - Saturday/Sunday

Sleeping nights - national minimum wage (currently £10.42)

Waking nights hourly rate.

**Personal Care Involved**

**Bespoke training given**

**Unfortunately we do not sponsor.**

**Essential Criteria**:
Driver with own car

Confident to work as part of a team, 2:1 and 1:1

Flexible with hours

**Background**:
*James is a happy, giggly 18-year-old young man who lives at home in a loving, caring, and fun home with his mum, dad, and brothers. James has a brain injury which has resulted in Cerebral Palsy and Autism, he requires support with all daily activities including personal care. Out of school James enjoys many activities including swimming, trainspotting, and eating out where he loves to people watch and shake hands with others.

Support workers will support James on a 2:1 basis in the community or 1:1 basis at home. The role includes helping him to make choices and learn routines, using his AAC and Makaton signs (full training given) and ensure he is kept active using his walking frame to get out and about. Working with James is a really enjoyable and rewarding role, you will have full support from the case manager and team.

The family have recently moved to an adapted house, with dedicated rooms for his care team. James is expanding his team and looking for flexible, committed support workers to join his fantastic, dedicated team.

Current shifts that we need covering (these may change so flexibility is required):
**Nights**: Tues, Weds, Fri, Sat, Sun: 20.30 - 08.30. They are currently waking nights, but we are working towards them being sleep nights. Please bear this in mind as your remuneration will be impacted.

**Days**: Friday 15.00 - 20.30 (term-time)

School holidays: full days are required and therefore an opportunity to have more shifts.

Saturday 09.00 - 20.00

**Duties**:

- Personal care
- Moving and handling at home and in the community
- Follow therapy routines and programs
- Waking nights initially but aiming for sleeping nights.

In addition, your commitment and attention will be rewarded with excellent rates of pay and a place as part of this caring and supportive family where support staff are valued and have a great deal of job satisfaction.
- Where a specific gender is stated as essential, gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance to paragraph 1, of schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for a female or male worker to work with our client._

**Purely Childcare works with families and case managers to fulfil their recruitment requirements; we will forward your details to them for shortlisting if you fit their job criteria.**

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: £13.00-£15.00 per hour

Shift:

- Day shift
- Night shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Wolverhampton: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Support Worker: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- UK Driving Licence and car (required)
- British Passport (preferred)
- Student visa (preferred)
- Dependants Visa (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person