Female Support Worker - Enablement East Hampshire

Roles cover East Hampshire.

Salary: £26,768pa FTE (salary will be pro‑rated for Part Time). Mileage paid at 45p per mile up to 10,000 miles and paid at 25p per mile thereafter as per HMRC guidelines.

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time and Part Time hours can be considered.

Closing Date: The first suitable applicants will be appointed.

Must have a driving licence and access to a car for work use. This role is only open to female applicants. Please note that, in line with the Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1, there is a genuine occupational requirement for this post to be filled by a female worker.

Essential Criteria:

• Car Driver with access to a vehicle for work, business insurance and be prepared to travel to work across Hampshire when required.
• Able to work shifts including evenings, weekends and bank holidays according to the needs of those we work with.
• Experience of working with vulnerable people.
• Understand and promote independence.
• Understand the needs of vulnerable people / people with a learning disability.
• Good communication skills: verbal, non‑verbal, and written.

The role of the Support Partner is to provide excellent and flexible person‑centred support across Hampshire in line with YOU’s values at all times. The role is multi‑faceted and includes time‑limited enablement support to help someone learn a new skill at home or in the community; community‑based support where small groups are supported to access volunteering, occupational, social and leisure activities; and homecare where individuals are supported with personal care, housing support, budgeting, social and daily living activities and emotional support.

Our clients want:

• Someone who listens carefully to make sure you understand what matters to them.
• A person who is trustworthy, reliable and always does what they say they will when they say they will.
• A Support Partner who is flexible and will adapt how they work to meet what we agree to do together.
• Someone who is aware of how they come across, and committed to making our support time together happy, friendly and enjoyable.
• A person who is chatty, polite and clear in their communication to make sure I can understand you.
• A Support Partner who is caring, respects my choices, and is helpful and fair in all that we do together.
• A person who shares their sense of fun and humour and makes our time together enjoyable.

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.

Our Benefits:

• 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.
• Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day!
• Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites, as well as discounted bus travel on the First bus network.

We are also recruiting to our Bank of Sessional Support Workers called Premier Crew, who are skilled and passionate about working with vulnerable people and accept shifts on a flexible basis to help cover shifts. If this is something you are interested in please contact us.

The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check. Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to adults and/or children it is an offence to apply for the role if you have been barred from engaging in such regulated activity.