Are you looking for a meaningful career? Would you like the opportunity to become a Casual Support Worker helping individuals with learning disabilities live the best life possible?
We are looking for Casual Support Workers to join our growing team in Oxfordshire. Experience is not essential as we will provide you with support and training to become a confident Support Worker. We are looking for people who are naturally caring and compassionate.
Covering leave, training and sickness with hours that fit in with life's other commitments, a casual support worker role is an ideal way of discovering that this could be the career for you. Hft is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities. We believe in a world where anyone with a learning disability can live within their community with all the choice and support they need to live the best life possible.
Our services in Oxfordshire are busy and fun places to work. Every day is different and you will support people to develop their skills and achieve their goals.
We offer
- Wage incentives: 20% bank holidays’ allowance with an increased rate of 50% for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
- Training: Access to award winning training and development
- Wagestream: Allows you to flexibly access your pay throughout the month and utilise a range of financial support, through its dedicated app
- Aviva Digicare + workplace: Access to wellbeing services including health checks, Digital GP and mental health support.
- TELUS health: A 24/service, completely confidential counselling and support platform and helpline that is free for all colleagues to use.
- Discounted mobile phone contracts. As an Hft employee, you’ll be able to take advantage of Vodafone’s Employee Advantage programme, giving you up to 30% off.
- Care Friends: Employee referral app – earn money for referring your friends to work for Hft.
- GEM Awards: GEMS are a way to say thank you to colleagues, through our reward scheme.
What will you be doing?
- -Giving the highest possible standards of support to individuals with moderate to severe learning disabilities.
- -Supporting them to discover new interests, reaching goals like travelling and holidays and working positively with their families and friends.
- -Helping individuals to engage in different leisure, home or work-related activities, all according to their personal choice.
- -As a Support Worker (Care Assistant), your responsibilities are varied and no two days are the same.
- -As well as providing physical and emotional support you may be needed to help with household tasks and personal care as well as supporting individuals with healthcare needs, e.g. taking medication.
- -Everything you do will enable people to have choices about their own lives, providing flexible services that meet people’s needs, and always looking for the best way of doing things.
This is your opportunity to make a real difference to people's lives. A full UK driving licence is desirable for this role as public transport is very restricted in Harwell. Full and Part time opportunities are available. We provide 24/7 support to some people, so you will need to have flexibility to work shifts, including sleep in nights, weekends and Bank Holidays
- Supported Living - supporting individuals with learning disabilities and physical illnesses, manual handling of wheelchairs and hoists may be required.
- Location – Abingdon, Harwell, and Banbury, in Oxfordshire.
- Pay: £12.82 per hour (£11.44 basic rate + 12.07% in lieu of holiday entitlement).
- Sleep ins at the service are: £54 + 12.07% (holiday pay)
Find your place with us and change lives.
Job Description and Person Specification.
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.
Hft's usual terms and conditions apply. Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do. Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment.