Support Worker

**Support Worker**

**Newcastle, NE5**

**Full time and part time available**:
**Full time 39 hours per week**
**Part time 26 hours per week**

Salary - £12.21 per hour

Variety of shifts available;
9.30am-3.30pm
5pm-8pm
9am-9am (sleepover)
2.30pm-9am (sleepover)

Do you pride yourself on having a caring nature and want a fulfilling role supporting people, then come work with us. You will be supporting active individuals within their own homes and out the community, taking them out in their cars on trips or going swimming.

As a support worker you will assist people with daily living tasks which may include, domestic services, social support, personal care, support with medication and meal preparation.

We deliver creative, dynamic and person-centred services providing a range of individualised support to people living in shared supported living properties and individual tenancies on a 1.1 basis.

Real Life Options is a registered charity currently going through a period of growth, and we are continuing to search for permanent contracted Support Workers who really want to make an impact on the lives of the people we support.

**The role**

Supporting individuals with accessing their local and wider community. Supporting individuals to enjoy leisure and learning opportunities. Providing supporting for daily living tasks such as cooking, cleaning and shopping

Across all services, the individuals we support have autism, learning disabilities and at times can display challenging behaviour, therefore you must have the ability to follow detailed support plans in order to ensure a consistent approach.

Drivers preferred but not essential

Previous experience is desirable for this position although full training will be provided.

An enhanced Adult and Child DBS will be required for this role.

**Benefits and Rewards**
- A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
- Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
- An employer contributory pension scheme
- In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:

- Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)
- £10,000 Life cover
- A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
- A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- A financial wellbeing scheme
- Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)

**Recognition Initiatives**

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:
Respect - Honesty - Responsibility - Excellence

If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for:
Honest - Good Communicator - Strong Values - Flexible - Passionate - Self Motivated - Reliable - Caring - Inclusive

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.