Support Worker - St George

Salary: £12.40 per hour + £500 Welcome bonus

Hours: 15 hours per week

Do you care about people? Do you want to make a difference? Please apply today!

Kingsway is a 5 bedded service in St George. We provide support for adults who enjoy the company of staff who can listen and also share a joke or two and are seeking Support Workers to join our team.

The successful Support Worker will have excellent communication skills, emotional intelligence and maturity. The ability to motivate themselves and others and be able to work openly and honestly as part of a team. They will have good values, showing compassion, kindness, empathy and understanding to the people they support. Willing to engage in learning to support the development of themselves and those around them and be flexible and able to adapt to any situation, while putting the person they are supporting at the centre of all that they do.

As a 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.
• To support social inclusion for people within the local community 

We would consider contracts from 15 to 37.5 hours per week. Shifts vary and there is a requirement to do at least one sleep in per week. Shifts times are 07:00 – 14:30, 09:00 – 16:30, 14:00 – 21:30 and sleep in shifts are 21:00 – 07:30am.

At Milestones Trust we recognise that without the hard work, commitment and passion of our staff, we wouldn’t be the charity that we are today. In return, we are committed to rewarding you with a competitive pay and benefits package including:

• 30 days annual leave entitlement
• Company pension scheme, to help grow your retirement pot
• Learning and development opportunities to help you to build your career, including a comprehensive induction programme, and the opportunity to undertake further qualifications
• Health Cash Plan on completion of probation giving you access to a minimum of £695 cash back for health treatments e.g. dental, therapies, optical, maternity/paternity, NHS prescriptions etc.
• Generous Occupational Maternity/Paternity pay
• Get paid when you want – access your money as you earn it and request your earnings before payday using Dayforce Wallet
• Access to an Employee Discount Platform from day one, with discounts and cashback for hundreds of retailers
• An employee referral scheme that allows you to earn points that can be converted to cash for family members or friends that you point in Milestones’ direction.

We pride ourselves with delivering the best person-centred care, treatment and support, to enable people to live the lives they choose, to meet their goals and aspirations. 

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.