Support Worker

6 days ago

St Albans, United Kingdom MacIntyre Full time

Are you interested in making a meaningful impact in someone's life while exploring a rewarding career as a Support Worker? We have an exciting full-time maternity cover opportunity that could be perfect for you

In this role, you will provide essential support to Sarah*, who has a learning disability and lives independently in her own home in St. Albans. Here’s what Sarah has to say about what she’s looking for in her new support worker:

What I need:

  • I need committed, cheerful, and dedicated support from someone who really cares.
  • Please support me to do my favourite things:
    • Use my wheelchair so I can explore town as much as I want.
    • Go to the swimming pool and use the hydrotherapy facilities.
    • Go horse riding.

About me:

  • I am a fun-loving and enthusiastic person with limited verbal communication skills, but I am a people-person and thrive on interaction.
  • I love going out in my wheelchair and people-watching, which makes me feel happy and included.
  • I will need assistance with peg feeding and some personal care.
  • I'm excited to work with you so we can start this journey together

This position offers a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in Sarah's life. Why not work with Sarah to build a routine of activities that enable her to thrive in this next stage of her life?

No two days will be the same, ensuring a dynamic and fulfilling work experience.

We also prioritize your professional development, providing the same training towards qualifications as our permanent staff. While this is a maternity cover position, we foster an environment that promotes your career growth and job security. There is potential for this position to become permanent.

If you’re ready to make a difference and support someone in their daily life, we would love to hear from you

Important Note: We are currently unable to offer sponsorships as we await further guidance from the Home Office. Applications requiring sponsorship cannot be considered at this time. We appreciate your understanding.

*Names changed for privacy

About you

Of course we welcome you if you've been a care assistant or support worker, but experience isn’t necessary. If you share our values, are warm, friendly and willing to learn, you’re likely to be a great fit.

We’re looking for people who celebrate differences, and we strive to make all our staff feel included, valued and respected.

You must be a driver with a manual driving licence.



About us

MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.

We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.

Training and Development

At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.

But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge.

Pay and Rewards

We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

  • Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
  • Workplace Pension scheme MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
  • MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
  • Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
  • Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
  • MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
  • Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
  • MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
  • MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
  • Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
  • Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)


How to apply

If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV.

Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call usand we will send an application form to you.

Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today.


Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement

MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.

MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. As part of this commitment, our accessibility toolbar allows you a number of options: read adverts in another language (including Welsh for our Services located in Wales), change the font to Open Dyslexia, change the colours, and many others. Just click the button marked “Accessibility” at the top of the screen.

This post is exempt from the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1) which provides for the application of a genuine occupational requirement.

COVID-19 Information

We will take every precaution to keep you and everyone involved safe during the recruitment process and your employment with MacIntyre. We encourage all our employees to follow Government advice and get vaccinated against COVID and flu. If you are a frontline care worker, you are on the priority list for vaccination.

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