Female Enabling Support Worker

Location: Newcastle

Salary: £13.45 per hour

Hours: 40 hours per week

Are you the Enabling Support Worker We’re Looking For?

Do you have a passion for supporting people with complex needs to live fulfilling, independent lives? Are you an experienced care professional ready to take the next step in your career?

At Shaftesbury North East, we're looking for dedicated and motivated Enabling Support Workers to join our Complex Care Service. We are looking for someone with a sense of fun, to help make a real difference to the lives of the people we support every day. Knowledge of the local area would be advantageous.

Due to service requirements, only Female applicants will be considered. A full UK license is required. Please note that we are not currently offering Sponsorship for this role.

About You

To be successful in this role, you'll have:

• A minimum of 12 months' experience supporting people with complex needs, learning disabilities, autism, and behaviours of concern within a supported living environment.
• NVQ/QCF level 2 or a desire to work towards the qualification while working
• A person-centred approach and a genuine passion for delivering outstanding support.

About the Role

As a Enabling Support Worker it will be your role to provide support and encouragement, by taking direction from both the person supported and the person centred support plan.

You will be required to maintain accurate records while at work, in line with the service requirements. You may also be required to administer personal care and medication.

There may be a requirement to cover sleep in sessions. You will be paid an additional £60 per sleep in.

Benefits of working at Shaftesbury

At Shaftesbury, we know that our workers are our greatest asset. We’re proud to have some of the best and most committed staff in the sector – and we want to attract more people like you to work with Shaftesbury. We’re now offering even more great benefits to reward the work of our wonderful staff, which is listed below:

• Happy Birthday to you! As well as sending you a birthday card, all frontline care staff can have the opportunity to take the day off on their birthday, taken from your annual entitlement.
• Great CQC, great reward. If your service is rated good or equivalent by CQC in all domains, all staff will receive a £30 gift voucher. If rated outstanding, all staff will receive a £50 gift voucher.
• We want to reward staff in a range of ways for their hard work. You can be nominated for a recognition letter from a member of the Executive Leadership Team and you may also be nominated to receive a gift voucher up to £50 for going above and beyond within your role.
• Excellent training package provided for all staff.
• Generous Annual Leave entitlement of 25 days + 8 days bank holiday for the first 5 years. Increasing to 28 days + 8 days bank holiday after 5 years.
• Pension Scheme.
• Access to our employee assistance program.

Shaftesbury is the disability charity that’s committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them.

What makes life liveable is never down to just one thing - it’s the sum of many things. From friendship to fun; from companionship to community; from a great chat to a challenge overcome, it all adds up – to Shaftesbury.

Through a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services we promote inclusion and wellbeing for all. Together, we work to see people take part, contribute and be valued. We put the elements in place that all add up to connected lives.

Shaftesbury is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS/Access NI check.

Shaftesbury is committed to the Disability Confident Scheme and to equal opportunities therefore we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Shaftesbury Group, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.