Relief Support Worker Full Time

Hockley, Essex
Creative Support

We are looking for enthusiastic, resourceful and energetic relief support worker who is well motivated, hardworking and keen to join our friendly team in Hockley, Birmingham. You will deliver person-centred approach to support the tenants to take part in all aspects of everyday life and to engage and participate with their local communities. You will provide support to individuals from an Afro-Caribbean background who also have learning disabilities/Autism and mental health needs. The role will be support individuals in their own home as well as in the community at our supported living service in Hockley, Birmingham.

Due to the nature of this service we would welcome and actively encourage applicants with an Afro-Caribbean background to apply for this role.

Support Worker Duties:

• To support service users in meeting their cultural and spiritual needs and in expressing their personal identity.
• To advise and support service users in all aspects of managing their tenancy and maintaining the safety, hygiene and comfort of their home.
• To respect the service user’s right to privacy and to ensure that their dignity is maintained at all times. To advise, encourage and support service users so as to maximise their self-care and independent living skills.
• To encourage and support service users in expressing their needs, views and concerns. To enable service users to make choices and decisions and to participate as fully as possible in planning and decision making processes.
• To contribute to service users’ reviews, through the provision of verbal and written reports and by attending Support Planning/Person centred planning and Review Meetings.

We welcome people with previous experience to apply for this role.

We would love to hear from people who have the genuine passion and drive to want to make a positive difference in people’s lives who have learning disabilities. Creative Support is a not-for-profit organisation which provides high quality person centred social care services for people with learning disabilities, mental health and other needs.

This role is based in Hockley, Birmingham, close to transport links and local amenities.

Benefits of working with Creative Support:

• Free 24/7 counselling and employee support programme,
• Competitive pay
• Company paid enhanced DBS for all staff,
• All our staff are supported 24/7 by our out of hour’s teams.

As a Creative Support Bank Staff member you will have access to our free app which allows you to pick up shifts in any area of the country, provides information on the service and shifts as well as directions.

‘Exempt from section 5 2d of the RDA’.