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Support Worker

Employer
Major Healthcare
Location
Bristol
Salary
£16000 - £18000/annum
Closing date
14 Sep 2019

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Sector
Social Care
Hours
Part Time
Flexibility
Set hours
Contract Type
Permanent
We are a UK's leading providers of care for those with Learning Disabilities, whether that be residential or supported living. We specialise in supporting our service users to live a full and meaningful life. We are looking for passionate individuals to join our fantastic service and team, to support our service users development in all areas of their lives.

We support people with learning disabilities by ensuring that options, independence and personal choice are key to our service users success. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect, dignity and provided the opportunity to progress in life.

You will be responsible for supporting the services users, we work with each person to provide them with individual and specific goals, whether that be education, care plans or helping them integrate with the wider world (through activities or volunteer opportunities). A huge part of what you'll do is be a friend to them; you'll be someone that listens and genuinely cares. You'll get involved with helping people live they life they want live; that could be taking them to the shops, helping them manage their finances, provide reports on their progress and some personal care and giving medication where required.

You'll build strong relationships with our service users so you'll have a good sense of humour, patience, dedication and most importantly you care! Of course, you'll be independent, honest and determined to set a good example.

As much as you'll help us look after our residents, we'll look after you. We have a generous benefits package available to all of our staff and we're actively looking to develop people. If you want to achieve NVQ qualifications we'll be more than happy to help you, we're always looking to promote internally as well! We pride ourselves on having flexible working hours and an environment that encourages learning, development and progression.

What we need from you:
- Strong leadership skills
- Drive to help improve the lives of people
- Desire to develop and learn new skills
- Strong communication skills
- The ability to be a great role model!
- Experience working in a similar service before
- Ideally NVQ 2 and above
- Driver (preferable but not essential)

Shifts, Hours & Benefits:
- Full and part time
- Weekend shifts
- Salary £16,000 - £18,000
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- In-house funded qualification programmes
- Pension
- Benefits package! Including high-street discounts & reduced mobile phone contracts.
- Comprehensive training on-site

If you would like to know more call Dan on (phone number removed), e-mail me at danielarmour @ major-recruitment .com or click Apply

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