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Female Support Worker – Eastleigh
Due to some of the tasks and personal care included within this role this job is open to Female applicants only Please note that, in line with the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1, there is a genuine occupational requirement for this post to be filled by a female worker.
Location:
Eastleigh
Date Posted:
Salary:
Hourly Rates: £11.92 (Mon to Fri) to £14.90 (Sat & Sun) per hour
Closing Date:
Essential Requirements
- Be prepared to travel to work in the Eastleigh area
- Able to work shifts including evenings, weekends and bank holidays
- Experience of supporting people with a variety of needs
- Promote and encourage people's independence
- Good communication skills: verbal, non-verbal, and written
- Confident to lone work
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The Role
You will be supporting female residents complex medical, physical, and learning needs.
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity to work alongside people with disabilities in various locations throughout Hampshire. As a Complex Needs Support Worker you will be assisting the people we work with to live the life they want. You will provide safe, person centred support to promote independent living skills and help make a clients’ hopes and wishes a reality. Our Complex Needs Support Workers offer clients flexible support, as well as helping with budgeting support, cooking and cleaning, and maintaining a home.
Some of our clients also require full personal care which can include toilet support, bathing, the use of hoists and routine bed turning so experience of this would be beneficial but not essential.
About You
You need to be professional and proactive in all that you do, with a motivational, encouraging and supportive approach with clients and colleagues alike. A good sense of humour and fun will help to make you a successful Complex Needs Support Worker in this service. Relevant knowledge and skills relating to individuals with a learning disability would assist you in this role, but if you are the right person for the job we will support you to gain the experience you need. We also want people who will share their successes and promote this excellent service wherever they go.
YOU has a strong value base, striving to be person-centred, innovative, trustworthy, can-do and excellent at all times, so it is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.
We are a disability confident employer.
YOU is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives.
Our Benefits
If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:
- Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing
- Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday
- Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options
- Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave
- Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes
- Real opportunities to develop in your profession
- Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day
- Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites, as well as discounted bus travel on the First bus network
- A company that is committed to its employees, valuing their knowledge, creativity and flexibility
- The chance to work with amazing people
Additional Info
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time, Part Time
10 minute walk from Eastleigh Train Station
Split shifts with flexible working patterns
To start as soon as possible
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