Support Worker - Longwell Green

£10.42 per hour + £500 Welcome Bonus
37.5 hours per week

Do you want to join a team that provides a person-centred service to enable the people we support to live a fulfilling life?
This Support Worker role will give the you the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge and become a vital part of the changing service.

46 Bath Road is a small residential service for 6 individuals with Learning Disabilities. The small size of the service enables the staff team to develop close and supportive relationships with their colleagues in this long-standing staff team, as well as the individuals living at Bath Road.

The people we support at this service are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, kind, caring, supportive, flexible to meet their needs, adaptable to change and who likes to spend time doing activities (both inside and outside of the service).

As Support Worker, your responsibilities will include:

• To encourage and enable the people we support to make day-to-day choices and major life decisions, signposting as appropriate, and to develop a positive self-image and maintain good health.
• To support service users to develop relationships to maintain contact with family and friends.
• To provide service users with the agreed necessary support to maximise their independence and to develop social and life skills

The successful Support Worker will:

• Have strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with team members, people we support and a range of stakeholders.
• Have a caring manner and a tolerant nature, experience within the sector is not essential as we will provide you with training required to carry out your duties.
• Due to the location of the home and the need to access activities within the local community, it is essential that staff are able to drive

At Milestones Trust we recognise that without the hard work, commitment and passion of our staff, we wouldn’t be the charity that we are today. In return, we are committed to rewarding you with a competitive pay and benefits package including:

• 30 days annual leave entitlement
• Company pension scheme, with Milestones matching employee contributions up to 3% to help grow your retirement pot
• Learning and development opportunities to help you to build your career, including a comprehensive induction programme, and the opportunity to undertake further qualifications
• Health Cash Plan on completion of probation giving you access to a minimum of £695 cash back for health treatments e.g. dental, therapies, optical, maternity/paternity, NHS prescriptions etc.
• Generous Occupational Maternity/Paternity pay
• Get paid when you want – access your money as you earn it and request your earnings before payday using Dayforce Wallet
• Access to an Employee Discount Platform from day one, with discounts and cashback for hundreds of retailers
• An employee referral scheme that allows you to earn points that can be converted to cash for family members or friends that you point in Milestones’ direction.

For an informal discussion about the job role please contact Rachel Coole, Service Coordinator on 07385 950794

This is an on-going advert and interviews will be held on an ad-hoc basis until sufficient applications have been received.

INDSP

Milestones Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all the individuals that it supports, it expects the same commitment from all employees. If successful at interview an enhanced DBS check will take place. (Formerly CRB) A criminal record is not necessarily a barrier to recruitment. Committed to Equality and Diversity for all. Registered Charity No. 294377.