Support Worker - Learning Disabilities

Better Healthcare Services ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Calling all healthcare workers & healthcare students Whether you're a student returning from University looking for care and support work or you're a regular healthcare worker looking to help provide support for the resdiential setting we have immediate opportunities for you and we're able to offer flexible work over next few months . Learning Disability Support Workers – Full Time & Flexible working available. £8.72 – £10.50 per hour Better Healthcare Services are a friendly, independent care agency with over twenty years' experience of providing quality temporary staffing to the care sector. At Better Healthcare, we truly believe that caring is a vocation not just a job. We understand the pressures of the role so ensure that all of our care workers are valued, respected and supported We are currently recruiting for Support Workers to provide care and support to adults with learning disabilities in a variety of settings including; Residential, supported living and outreach services. Temporary, flexible shifts are available to cover for our new and major clients working in supported living for adults with learning disabilities. If you have at least 6 months experience and looking to make a difference in care to adults with learning and physical disabilities this is the role for you. Responsibilities: Providing personal care, domestic tasks and housing related support in a residential setting or lone working in the community. Providing boundaries and direction around positive behaviours. Promoting choice and independence. To support individual to live a life as full as possible and to engage with the community. Provide physical and emotional support, ensuring that respect, dignity and confidentiality is maintained at all times. Requirements: Experience of providing care and/or support to vulnerable people. Possess excellent people skills. Have a passion for supporting adults with learning disabilities. Be able to develop and maintain good working relationships Be able to demonstrate positive personal authority. Have great communication skills. Benefits: Excellent rates of pay. Weekly pay via BACS Specialist two day ‘Introduction to Learning Disability' training course Ongoing training & development, including opportunity to study NVQ 2 Diploma in Learning Disabilities Holiday Pay Flexible shift patterns to suit your lifestyle Recommend a friend scheme. Better HealthCare adhere to equal opportunities throughout our workforce and in-service delivery. We welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality, religion or age. Please contact our recruitment team on 0207 929 2975 or email your CV to This job was originally posted as www.caterer.com/job/89949966