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 Waking Night Support Workers to join our growing team in Sheffield and Derbyshire. 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.
What will you be doing?
As a waking night support worker at Hft you’ll be supporting adults with
learning disabilities to live the best life possible. In this caring and creative role, everything you do will enable people to have choices about their own lives, creating flexible services that meet people’s needs and always looking for the best way of doing things.
Waking night support workers are required to remain awake throughout the night to support individuals as required.
The role is tailored to the needs of the individual(s) you will be supporting. The tasks can include:
- Assisting with taking medication
- Monitoring people we support due to medical needs, such as seizures
- Provide support during the night when the people you are supporting are awake and are struggling to go back to sleep
- Support with personal care
- Updating files such as finance logs and support plans
- General household tasks, such as cleaning, washing and ironing
- Performing security checks, including fire checks
We offer
- Wage incentives: 20% bank holidays’ allowance with an increased rate of 50% for key dates over Christmas.
- 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.
This is your opportunity to make a real difference to people's lives. A full UK driving licence is desirable for this role. 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
- Type of service- supported living- supporting individuals with learning disabilities.
- Location- Sheffield and Derbyshire
- Salary- £11.44 per hour plus 12.07% in leiu of holiday entitlement
- Sleep ins at the service are £6.44 per hour + 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.