Support Worker (Jewish Living) in London

Kisharon Langdon has an exciting opportunity for Jewish living Support Workers to join their growing team in the Golders Green area of North West London. We are looking for caring enthusiastic people who share our values and can demonstrate a strong background and advanced knowledge of providing orthodox Jewish observance care and support. Kisharon Langdon is a charity offering a wider breadth of services of enhanced quality, enabling us to better support people with learning disabilities and autism and their families.

About the Role:

As a Support Worker you will be required to work individually and as part of a team to enable our members to live as independently as possible. You will be responsible for working with our employment team to facilitate employment opportunities and assisting and supporting our members to enjoy an active social life.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide personal or supported care, work flexible hours which will involve working early and late shifts (typically between 0700 to 2200), every other weekend, some sleep ins and bank holidays in accordance with member need.
• Advanced knowledge of providing orthodox Jewish observance care and support, including adherence to Kashrut.
• Assist and support in the provision of social, health and personal care including moving assistance, use of wheelchair and hoist as required.
• Support and enable our members to live as independently as possible and develop new and existing skills including shopping and other domestic tasks like cooking and cleaning.
• Support individuals to observe Jewish Culture and achieve goals that link to the Kisharon Langdon mission.
• Assist in supporting our members in designing and developing their support/care plans.
• Enable our members to form relationships and wider social networks.
• Support at mealtimes and with social activities including music and art therapy.
• Attend appointments and maintain their health and wellbeing.
• Promote and adhere to our workplace values (Respect, Integrity, Community, and Excellence).

About You:

You must be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of providing orthodox Jewish observance and care support in a person-centred care setting. If you are already working in the care sector or looking for a career change and enjoy engaging with people, value diversity and have a real desire to make a difference to someone’s life, then we want to hear from you.

Ideally you will be:

• Able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of providing orthodox Jewish observance care and support.
• Confident with dealing with challenging behaviours and providing personal care.
• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent, with a good standard of written English.
• Experience of working with adults with learning disabilities or autism is desirable but not essential as full training will be given to the successful applicant.
• A UK driving licence holder and have access to a vehicle for work use (desirable but not essential).
• Happy to work shifts as part of a rota system which will include some weekend and bank holiday working and sleep ins as required.
• Keen to work as part of a team to deliver an excellent person-centric service to the people we support.
• Flexible in your approach to work.
• Committed to equality and diversity and take a positive approach to supporting people with learning disabilities.

What We Offer:

• 217.50 hours holiday per year (including bank holidays) which increases with length of service, pro rata for part time.
• Pension scheme - (NatWest Cushion).
• £45.00 per sleep in performed on top of your basic pay.
• Blue light card - access to more than 15,000 discounts from large national and local retailers.
• Eyecare benefits – via Vision Express.
• Long service recognition and reward & employer referral bonus.
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programme with free access to independent advice, support and counselling on a wide range of issues.
• Fully paid enhanced DBS.
• Training and development and career progression opportunities.

How to apply:

If you are interested in joining our friendly team, please click apply below. Appointment to this position will be subject to satisfactory right to work in the UK, enhanced DBS, employment references and medical checks. At this time, we cannot offer Certificate of Sponsorship or Visa support. Please note; that we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on an ongoing basis and therefore we may close the vacancy early. Interested applicants are therefore encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure they are considered.