Personal Assistant / Support Worker

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

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£8.95 per hour excellent benefits 15 - 37.5 hours per week – various full or part time opportunities available. Various 1:1 support need thoroughout the week from 3 hours – 7 hours a day over 7 days a week An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Personal Assistant 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. As a Personal Assistant you will be working within our Supported Living Services, with a basic of £8.95 per hour excellent benefits , providing support to tenants with their daily living skills, enabling each individual to live the life that they choose. WHY APPLY? We are currently looking for individuals to join our experienced team of Personal Assistants, where every day is different and you can go home knowing you have made a positive difference to the lives of the people we support. Within this role, you will be supporting adults with Learning Disabilities (between the age of 18 and 80) who have different support needs, f rom gaining meaningful employment/voluntary positions, to building a social life, to developing independent skills like cooking, budgeting, maintaining good physical and mental health to accessing the community, pursuing their various interests and hobbies. It is an exciting, varied role, and requires someone who is not only flexible and adaptable but can build relationships quickly, has a calm nature and a positive attitude. 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. 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. use person-centered approaches to support each individual to achieve their goals as set out in their support plans. To be able to keep calm in a busy environment, responding to the needs of the tenants in a well led, responsive, safe, caring and effective way. YOU: The successful Personal Assistantwill: Have strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with team members, service users and a range of stakeholders. Be computer literate and flexible to meet service needs. Be able to work in a very person-centred manner. Have experience in Supported Living or Supported housing settings would be advantageous but is not compulsory. For an informal discussion about the job role please contact Abi Yateman on 01179709361 This is an on-going advert and interviews will be held on an ad-hoc basis until sufficient applications have been received. 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 allRegistered Charity No. 294377. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/88602301

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