Job Description
Support Worker - Respite
Job Description
Salary: £23,893 - £24,702 (plus 10% unsocial hours plussage)
Hours per week: 28 hours
Interview date: Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 January 2024
Day and Respite Service - Promoting Health, Ensuring Care
We are passionate about our community and take pride in our work. We encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - through trust and respect, empowering our people to develop skills, collaborate and innovate to find solutions, be open, take responsibility, to listen and learn.
Our Day and Respite Service provides 24-hour care to customers throughout the year. As a Care Support Worker, you will perform your duties in person-centred manner, promoting well-being, choices, dignity, and independence. You will support customers with personal care needs, social daily living skills and leisure or work activities.
The Day Service collaborates with customers to identify and achieve outcomes, supporting individuals in a variety of activities within the service or local community, 5 days a week.
Our Respite Services offer vital support for adults with learning disabilities in each area, catering to diverse needs with 24/7 care and flexible shift patterns.
We will provide regular training opportunities to support you in this role and you will be supported to undertake a 26-week probationary period with regular meetings throughout this period to monitor progress. Following a three-month induction period, you will be expected to lead shifts and there will be an expectation for you to work between both Respite and Day services.
Why us?
Wiltshire Council is a friendly, welcoming place to work, with a 'One Council' ethos. That's why we focus on getting the things that matter to our people right. Explore more benefits here!
Under the Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, individuals involved in regulated activity must provide a full employment history and detail any gaps. Before clicking apply please complete this full employment history form and once completed please attach it to your application form.
Please download and read the role description and person specification carefully before you apply as well as Our Identity .
For more details, contact Angie Taylor, Registered Manager at .
This role may be subject to certain successful security checks; please see the role description for more information.
We are firmly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and to the principles of inclusion and diversity in both employment and the delivery of services. Read our statement of commitment to equality and inclusion .
Disability Confident Employer
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