We are looking for a support worker for a permanent position.
Job Location: England
Type of Contract – Permanent
Salary
Starter: £21,000
Experienced: £22,000 to £24,000
Highly Experienced: Up to £27,000 (senior support worker)
Skills required:
You’ll need:
- The ability to get on with people of all ages and backgrounds and gain their trust.
- Tact, patience and understanding.
- Computer literacy and administration skills.
- Mental strength, to cope with challenging situations and clients.
What you’ll do:
Our Service Users include adults with physical or learning disabilities, mental health problems, addiction issues or other emotional or social needs.
Your day-to-day tasks might include:
- Checking on the service users’ needs, progress, and wellbeing.
- Prepare and serve meals to the service users and assist with feeding where required.
- Providing one-to-one counselling or group therapy sessions.
- Help with daily living skills like budgeting, shopping and claiming benefits.
- Providing leisure and creative activities to engage the service user in a safe and supportive setting.
- Liaising with the multidisciplinary team and other professionals in implementing the support plan.
- Talking with service users’ families and arranging family and home visits.
- Prompting service user to take their medication.
To be qualified for this role:
- Care certificate + Required Mandatory Training Certificate.
- Minimum 1 year experience in care and support work.
- DBS checked.
*You may also need a healthcare qualification such as a BTEC or NVQ for some of our roles*
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Language training provided
- UK visa sponsorship
Day range:
- Monday to Friday
Physical setting:
- Care home
- Homecare
- Live-in
- Residential home
Shift:
- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Language:
- English (required)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: GLC Support worker
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to Apply
