Night Support Worker / Care Assistant

Milestones Trust ,
Bristol, Bristol
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Salary: £8.95 per hour + excellent benefits

Overview

37.5 hours per week Night Shifts Only Shift times are 21:15 to 07:15 An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Night Support Worker to join Milestones Trust. We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation with a 34 year history of offering person-centred support to vulnerable people with learning disabilities, mental health needs and dementia. Based at Flaxpits House, with a basic of £8.95 per hour excellent benefits, you will be responsible for encouraging and supporting service users to define and develop their chosen lifestyles through person-centred care in our residential services. WHY APPLY? Located in the village Winterbourne just north of Bristol with easy access to the M32 and Avon Ring Road (A4174), Flaxpits House is a residential home for younger people with learning disabilities and associated complex needs. This busy home supports 10 people to live their lives as independently as possible. Our skilled staff team support individuals with personal care, cooking, activities, access in the community and developing independent living skills. Flaxpits House supports some individuals to move on to supported living and independent living services. We are currently looking for an Unsupervised Support Worker to join our team to work waking nights at our service. This opportunity may be ideal for people looking for night shifts to work around their busy lives. You will be working with another member of staff at all times while on night shifts. Role, Required Education, Skills and Qualifications THE ROLE: As Support Worker, your responsibilities will include: To encourage and enable service users to make day-to-day choices and major life decisions, signposting as appropriate, and to develop a positive self-image and maintain good health. To support service users to develop relationships to maintain contact with family and friends. To provide service users with the agreed necessary support to maximise their independence and to develop social and life skills. YOU: The successful Support Worker will: Be able to support people to participate in a wide range of social activities including reading, supporting people going to bed at their pace. In addition to this you will need to support with cleaning, administration tasks during night shifts. Be able to support people with their personal care and all aspects of their daily living, encouraging people to be as independent as they can be. Be a good communicator and able to give service users the emotional support they need Have strong person centred values Have a positive and cheerful attitude and be able to maintain this even at times of stress Be flexible and able to attend training and team meetings during day bi-monthly We highly recommend a visit to the home prior to attending an interview. In return, we will offer you some excellent benefits including: Up to 26 days’ holiday and 8 days’ bank holiday entitlement Family friendly/work-life balance policies Company pension scheme & private health cash plan (BHSF) Free parking at most Trust services Comprehensive induction and learning and development opportunities Access to all levels of training appropriate to your role and career progression with the Trust. We pride ourselves with being able to offer staff opportunities to develop and progress their careers within Milestones Trust. For an informal discussion about the job role please contact Faz Holder, Home Manager, on 01454 776191. Milestones Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all the individuals that it supports, it expects the same commitment from all employees. If successful at interview an enhanced DBS check will take place. (Formerly CRB) A criminal record is not necessarily a barrier to recruitment. Committed to Equality and Diversity for all Registered Charity No. 294377. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89188877

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