Support Worker
Location: Belfast
Care type: Disabilities, Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Complex Needs.
Salary/Hourly Rate: £11.63 per hour- £15.85(Enhanced rate for additional hours)
Hours of Work: Full Time Position- Permanent. Shifts are on a rotational basis and are typically 8am-8pm, 3 days per week, with one full weekend off in three.
Benefits:
- Annual Leave: 5.6 weeks in each leave year (inclusive of public and bank holidays), increasing with length of service, up to 33 days per year.
- Paid breaks.
- Recognition Reward scheme available to all staff in the course of their work.
- Paid annual NISCC registration fees.
- Investor in People Champion with commitment to the development of employees through paid training and learning opportunities, including RQF Level 3 diploma.
- Enhanced rate of pay for working on bank holidays.
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme, 5% employee contribution and 4% employer contribution.
- Occupational Sick Pay (2 weeks full pay, 2 weeks half pay after 6 months service).
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme, including access to 24/7 Doctors support.
- Health Cashback Scheme.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure all work is service user-focused, upholding respect, privacy, dignity, fulfilment, independence, and choice.
- Orientate new service users to the residential scheme and the local community.
- Deliver individual support programs, including social and domestic guidance, personal hygiene, and community living skills.
- Assist senior staff with the assessment of service users’ needs.
- Report any changes or concerns about service users to the line manager.
- Participate in monitoring and reviewing service users’ skills and needs.
- Establish goals with service users to ensure effective use of their resources.
- Support the physical and personal needs of service users.
- Ensure medication is managed via Medication Policy.
- Ensure service users’ opinions and suggestions are heard and their personal problems addressed sensitively.
Essential Criteria
- Effective verbal and written communication to include numeracy skills
- 1 year caring experience
- Working knowledge of the needs of people with learning disabilities
- A good understanding and knowledge on behaviours that challenge
Please note This role does not offer Sponsorship
For more information please contact: Staffline @ Hannah Hollywood Harry
Email: Hannah.HollywoodHarry@stafflinerecruit.comT; 028 9024 2824 (315)M; 07825789243
