Support Worker - Supported Living

Join our friendly team as a Support Worker at Active Prospects!

Location: Horley
Salary: £11 per hour
Service Type: Supported Living
Speciality: Autism, Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Epilepsy

Do you want to work for an award-winning company? Active Prospects were awarded with an Outstanding Best Companies rating in 2021 and ranked on the UKs Best Workplaces 2023 by Great places to work UK! Our training and development have won various awards over the years and in 2022 we won Trainer of the year at the Learning Disabilities and Autism awards.

Active Prospects are recruiting for a Support Worker to join our friendly team at our supported living service in Horley.

This service supports up to 2 adults with autism, mental health, learning disabilities and epilepsy to live independently in a bungalow. Challenging behaviours can occur including physical, verbal and self-harming behaviours, however our fantastic training department will provide all the relevant training and support.

As a Support Worker, you will be included in creating activities and ensuring the people we support receive a great level of care within their home. You will be supporting them to achieve their goals and aspirations – no matter how big or small they are – and to promote independence by learning new skills.

Ideal candidates for this role will be required to have excellent listening and communication skills with empathy and a positive support approach and experience in working with people with Challenging Behaviours.

As an employee of Active Prospects, you will be entitled to our range of benefits such as:

• Competitive Hourly rate of £11 per hour
• Training opportunities – NVQ Level 3/5 qualifications
• Opportunity to learn skills to progress (80% of our managers started as Support Workers!)
• Opportunity to enrol on our Leadership Programme for Future Leaders
• Double Pay on some bank holidays
• Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave Enhanced Pay
• Access to a Blue Light Discount Card (for retail, holidays, gym memberships etc)
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• Refer a Friend Scheme (Earn £500 per successful referral!)

Flexible Shift Patterns - All hours are considered including long and short days. We commit as an organisaton to share out all shifts equally to be fair to all our staff.

Flexible Contracts - 15 hours, 22.5 hours, 30 hours, 37.5 hours all available! Evening and Weekend work also available! (minimum of 15hrs per week).

Apply Today!

Email: recruitment@activeprospects.org.uk

Contact Number: 01737 924084 / 07971 954 703

Website: https://activeprospects.org.uk/

Please note that all offers are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment compliance standards, including an enhanced DBS check.

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