Full time. 34.5 hours per week. Working Night Shifts.A night enhancement of £1.50 per hour will apply from 8pm to 7am Monday – Sunday (this does not apply to sleep-ins). A weekend day enhancement of £2.00 per hour will be paid from 7am to 8pm, Saturday and Sunday.St Teresa’s is a single storey home for 27 adults with physical disabilities.Are you an experienced care worker or would love to start a career in care? If so, we would love to hear from you! Apply now, helping us to continue our great work making a positive impact every day on the lives of people with a disability.Care Assistant, Support Worker or similar experience is desirable but not essential. We offer an excellent training and induction programme for everyone!As a Support Worker with Leonard Cheshire you will become part of a fantastic team. Every day is different, but here are just some of the duties you will do:
- Assistance with daily life tasks including personal care, medication and mealtimes.
- Escort and assist in and around the service, at external events and appointments.
- Supporting our Person Centred approach, encouraging maximum independence for our customers and helping to achieve individual aspirations.
- Maintain up to date and accurate records.
Please see the job description (link below) for more details.To be successful in this role you will:
- Have good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively.
- Work flexibly and creatively with customers and their families.
- Ideally have personal care experience (not essential).
- Be able to work under pressure and as a team.
- Flexibility to work within rostered hours / prepared to participate in an on-call rota where required.
We offer a wide range of employee rewards to include:
- Wagestream, option to withdraw up to 40% of your pay before pay day (click here for more details).
- Free Blue Light Card.
- Contributory company pension scheme with competitive life cover benefit.
- Access to a Cash Health Plan at very favourable rates.
- Great development opportunities through our apprenticeship schemes and chance to gain recognised qualifications.
- Unlimited payments through our Refer a Friend bonus scheme.
- Free DBS check.
- Employee Assistance Programme and so much more!
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