Female Support Worker in Wakefield, Yorkshire

This position does not meet the requirements for sponsorship under current UK immigration guidelines.

Do you have a caring nature? Are you looking to make a difference to people's lives? Do you want to work in an environment where no two days are the same? Are you flexible with your working hours? Can you see yourself providing care to adults who need your support? If you have answered a big YES to these questions we would love to hear from you.

At Turning Point, we support people with Learning Disabilities across England. As a Support Worker, you will make a real difference to residents' lives as you improve their daily living skills. Passionate about people, you will enjoy the scope and support to enhance your own life and career too, as you gain the experience and training you need to progress with us.

As a Support Worker, you will be supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism in their own homes within our supported living team. We support people across the Wakefield district but initially you will be allocated to teams operating in the Wrenthorpe and Lupset areas. We are looking for a female support worker who preferably has a UK license to drive both manual and automatic vehicles.

You will be required to provide a person-centred approach in all aspects of the role, including:

• Supporting people to manage their home
• Assisting with mobility
• Providing some personal care
• Accessing local community facilities
• Maintaining contact with other important people in their lives

We tailor our services to enable people to be as independent as possible, to find enjoyment, and to be healthy and safe. We use a digital social care record system to support daily recording, which will make your day-to-day tasks easier and allows you to spend more time with the People We Support.

This is a 24 hour service, therefore flexibility is essential. You will be working a range of shifts from 7:00am to 2:00/3:00pm and 2:00/3:00 pm to 9:00/10:00pm, sleep ins or waking nights, some weekends. Please note that the shifts may vary.

Your duties will include:

• Promoting the independence of people we support
• Supporting a full range of daily activities including cleaning and cooking, days out or going away on holiday
• Arranging activities in the home and in the local community
• Developing residents' life skills and personal interests
• Helping residents stay safe and healthy
• Assisting with personal care needs
• Manual handling
• Supporting people with medication
• Ensuring record keeping is maintained to the required standard at all times
• Contributing to service monitoring requirements

What skills and qualities do I need to have? Whilst knowledge of learning disabilities and complex needs would be beneficial, it isn’t essential. What is essential is that you are:

• Passionate, caring and enthusiastic
• Flexible, patient and non-judgemental
• A great team player with lots of energy
• Able to demonstrate good communication skills
• Able to complete the physical aspects of the role such as manual handling where needed
• Have transferable experience of helping people to manage anxiety

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer. We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether it's ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package. You will get 29 days paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 31 days. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.

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We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.