Waking Night Support Worker – The Porthouse (Reamc

Role:  Waking Night Support Worker – The Porthouse (Reamcare Ltd)

Location: Worcester Park

Job Summary:

This is an excellent opportunity to become a waking night support worker of our new supported living service in Worcester Park, which provides care for young adults with autism, learning disabilities who may display behaviour that challenges.

Essential requirements:

• Experience of working in a care setting
• Good written and spoken English
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to provide consistency of care and support to the young adults

Desired Requirements:

• Ability to interact and communicate with colleagues, relatives and service users.
• Experience working with young adults with autism and multiple learning disabilities, who may display behaviour that challenges
• Level 2/3 Diploma Health and social care
• Awareness of CQC standards

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the highest standards of care in relation to the service user's physical, behavioural and emotional needs
• Ensure that the home and it's service users are kept safe at night
• Supporting service users to promote their independence, wellbeing and achieving their personal goals.
• Provide personal care to young adults
• The position involves working weeknights, weekends and bank holidays

Benefits for you:

• Flexible working hours weekdays and weekends
• Opportunity to work for a well-known care organisation
• Fully funded induction and in-house training
• Partly funded (NVQ) qualification
• Excellent opportunity for progression within the company
• Full access to 100s of savings and offers available to staff including through the company benefit scheme ( ½ price cinema tickets, 6 % off 20,000 high-street shops, Free Mobile Insurance, Free Tastecard, Save over £300 per year on an Oyster card.)
• Fully funded DBS

Our Company Values

Family - An inclusive, supportive and empowering ethos which is underpinned and inspired by family values and ideals.

Progressive - Continually learning and developing to seek improvements in all that we do. The collective and individual achievements of our teams and those they support are matched only by the ambition and appetite to achieve more.

Diverse - Distinct services with their own unique mission, unified by our shared ethos and ambition. 

Advantages of working for Reamcare:

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a motivated and determined team. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the young adults we support, and our home operates with a high staff to young adult ratio. All successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

Preferred candidate’s strengths:

• Ability to interact with a range of young people
• Ability to provide consistency of care and support to the young people
• Ability to work as part of a team

Salary: £11.00 per hour

Job Type and Hours: The job is full time and will consist of 35 hours per week on a shift basis. This includes working some weekends. Access more information at www.reamcare.co.uk