Support Worker

Location Dorset
Discipline: Education
Job type: Permanent
Contact email: bill.hageman@blackstone-recruitment.co.uk
Job ref: J5905
Startdate: 24/07/2024

Job Details:

Working hours: 12 hour shifts, 8am-8pm- average 42 hours per week spread over 3-4 shifts per week (including every other weekend)

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Cranborne, Dorset

Salary: £25,000 - £27,000 per year

Job Summary:

Following a handover from our night team; you'll support our students with their morning routine, ensuring they are ready for their day in College. This will be with the use of verbal and visual prompting dependent on the need of the student.

Once at college you’ll work alongside our Teachers and TA’s and assist the students in staying concentrated and focused on their work; providing emotional support as required.

You’ll also provide a key liaison point for parent and carers and ensure all health/medical appointments are attended. 

After college you’ll work with the students in preparation from dinner (again; prompting/motivating rather than doing); and in the evening you’ll join in with whatever activities the students want to do.

The key to this role will be your ability to participate and to motivate whilst ensuring our students develop their own independent living skills. 

Skills and Qualifications:

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate (No experience need – we’ll fund all your training): 

  • Willingness to participate, be positive and creative in meeting our young person’s needs 
  • Able to support and develop independence skills such as budgeting, shopping, cooking, housekeeping as well as accessing the wider community and using public transport.
  • Ability to prompt / encourage in a positive manner whilst providing social/emotional behavioural support
  • Ability to show a strong understanding of what “good care” looks like and how to put the young person’s needs first, whilst empowering them to be independent
  • Due to our rural location access to transport and a drivers licence is essential
  • Given the age of our students all applicants must be 21 and over

Benefits and Additional Information:

  • Full training with the opportunity to study the Level 3 diploma in Health and Social Care (funded by us!) 
  • Free lunch
  • Perkbox subscription
  • Life assurance and pension 
  • Health cash back plan 
  • Car lease scheme 
  • Bike to work scheme  
  • Free parking 

    Benefits:

    ✅Assigned specialised recruitment consultant

    ✅Access to exclusive and flexible UK locum and permanent jobs

    ✅Complete onboarding support

    ✅Informed tailored career advice

    ✅Personalised job alerts

    ✅Unlimited referral bonus

    For further information on this role, please contact Amelia Toovey at Blackstone Recruitment on the details provided or APPLY now.