Support Worker Part Time
Location: Waterlooville
Hourly Rates: £11.92 (Mon to Fri) to £14.90 (weekends)
The hourly rate may further go up to incorporate shift enhancements for sleep-in shifts and waking nights as part of a typical rota.
Contract Type: 20 hours per week, Permanent, sleep in's, every other weekend
To start as soon as possible
Essential Criteria

• Be prepared to travel to work in the Waterlooville 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

The Role
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 and real opportunities to develop in your profession.
• Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites, as well as discounted bus travel on the First bus network.
• Online 24/7 access to your personal rota.

How to Apply
If you think you have the skills to provide this service, we can’t wait to hear from you! Please click ‘Apply’ to forward your details on to us; please be sure to include your name, email address, contact telephone number. We will then contact you directly to discuss the role and ask you a few key questions to make sure that this is the right position for you.
If you are successful during this initial screening, you will be invited to an assessment and interview, the date of which will be agreed at this point. Please note; we will select the first suitable applicants for interview and assessment, so don’t delay, apply today!
We are also recruiting to our bank of Sessional Support Workers called Premier Crew. If this is something that interests you, please contact us.
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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £11.92-£14.90 per hour
Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Referral programme
• Sick pay

Physical Setting:

• Care home
• Residential home

Shift:

• Day shift
• Night shift

Application question(s):

• Do you have any restrictions on days or hours you are able to work?
• Are you able to work every other weekend?
• Are you able to work sleep in shifts?
• Do you require visa sponsorship? Please note we are sadly unable to sponsor visas.
• If you have a visa, what type of visa do you have?

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 02230/SW/Cherie