Personal Assistant / Support Worker

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

Overview

Full and Part Time Hours Considered – to include evenings, weekends and sleep-ins An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Personal Assistant to join our Supported Living Services at 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 Bratchel Court in Hanham, 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? Bratchel Court is a busy supported living scheme, providing support to 4 individuals with a learning disability. The people we support live in their own flats and our team may offer individual, person centred support with household tasks, shopping, cooking, personal care and/or tenancy issues. Part of your job will include researching and signposting to places or services that the individuals may be interested in going and generally helping the individuals to live a fulfilling life. THE ROLE: As a Personal Assistant, 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 Personal Assistant will: Be a car driver Be willing to provide support with personal care Be flexible and able to work some unsocial hours, including evenings and weekends Work well both individually and as part of a team Have strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with team members, service users and a range of stakeholders Be Professional, supportive, respectful and creative 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 & 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 Sarah Couzens, on 0117 9709372. 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/88602511

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