Female Support Worker Supported Living

**Female Support Worker**

**SPONSORSHIP NOT AVAILABLE.**

**Location: Eastleigh**

**Salary: £25,397 per year + Additional enhancements for weekend & night shifts (plus £1500pa MRA)**

**Salary will be prorated for Part Time hours**

**Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time**

10 minute walk from Eastleigh Train Station

Split shifts with flexible working patterns

To start as soon as possible

Due to some of the tasks and personal care included within this role this job is open to **Female applicants only**

Please note that, in line with the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1, there is a genuine occupational requirement for this post to be filled by a female worker.

**Essential Criteria**

The successful Support Worker applicant will need to have:
**Proof of right to work in the UK. Please be advised we do NOT offer sponsorship.**
- Able to work shifts including evenings, weekends and bank holidays
- Experience of supporting people with a variety of needs
- Promote and encourage people's independence
- Good communication skills: verbal, non-verbal, and written
- Confident to lone work

**The Role**

You will be supporting female residents with complex medical, physical, and learning needs.

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity to work alongside people with disabilities in one of our large Services in Eastleigh. As a Support Worker you will be assisting the people we work with to live the life they want. You will provide safe, person centred support to promote independent living skills and help make a clients’ hopes and wishes a reality.

Some of our clients also require full personal care which can include toileting and bathing so experience of this would be beneficial but not essential.

**About You**

You need to be professional and proactive in all that you do, with a motivational, encouraging and supportive approach with clients and colleagues alike. Relevant knowledge and skills relating to individuals with a learning disability would assist you in this role, but if you are the right person for the job we will support you to gain the experience you need. We also want people who will share their successes and promote the excellence of the service wherever they go.

YOU has a strong value base, striving to be person-centred, innovative, trustworthy, can-do and excellent at all times, so it is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.

We are a disability confident employer.

**YOU**is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives.

**Our Benefits**

If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

- Competitive rates of pay including weekend enhancements.
- Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.
- Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.
- Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes and real opportunities to develop in your profession.
- Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
- Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites through the use of a Blue Light card.

**How to Apply**

**We are also recruiting to our bank of Sessional Support Workers called Premier Crew. If this is something that interests you, please contact us.**

**The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check.**

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**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £25,397.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Physical Setting:

- Care home
- Residential home

Application question(s):

- Do you require sponsorship? We are unable to provide sponsorship
- Have you ever been employed by The You Trust previously?

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)
- visa which doesn't require sponsorship for working (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 02212/FSW/Meadowbank