Support Worker (Ty Coed, Residential)
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Who we are
We are the UK’s leading Autism charity. We aim to transform lives, change attitudes, and create a more inclusive society for autistic individuals. We provide a wide range of high quality that includes personalised support services for autistic individuals and their families.
The role
Working in our Neath residential homes, you will be supporting autistic adults and enriching their everyday lives. Part of the role may involve providing personal care and medication, but the majority of the day’s activities will be decided by the people we support. You will work with them to implement an enjoyable routine of daily activities, social outings and more.
No two days are the same. If you like new challenges and making a difference to people’s lives this may be the perfect opportunity for you. Previous experience is preferred, though not essential as we have a fantastic training programme that will get you on your way to achieving a fulfilling job that will beat most out there.
This advert is for a part time position, 27 Hours. The starting salary for this position is £16,848 per annum (£12 per hour). We also offer sleep-in shifts at an additional rate and overtime is optional.
Your working pattern in this role will require flexibility to meet the needs of the people supported and their families, and will include evening and weekend working.
Please click here for a Job Description.
We need you to be: Resilient, supportive and sensitive towards the needs of autistic people. Being a support worker takes passion, patience and commitment. But working with autistic people gives so much more in return.
To protect our autistic adults, all staff are required to have a criminal background check. Possession of an Enhanced DBS Check either on the Update Service or conducted within the last 12 months would be preferable but not essential.
Possession of a driving licence (minimum one year) is essential.
We offer:
- Excellent training and development programme
- Career progression opportunities
- Enhanced overtime. Additional payments for sleep-in and on call.
- Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance counselling programme
- Competitive pension scheme
- 33 days annual leave (incl. Public Holidays)
- Access to our benefits portal - online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits for places such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Halfords, Nike, Apple, Nando's and loads more!
- Cycle to work scheme
- Headspace membership for yourself + 3 friends/family members - Headspace is a global leader in mindfulness and meditation
- Occupational sick pay
- Salary Finance - Our charity partner offers Salary Finance loans as a financial wellbeing benefit for our staff.
- Eligibility for Blue Light Card
- Join the Team Scheme - Refer a friend and receive £200!
- Level 1 membership to Healthcare Cash Plan for all permanent staff!
- We are excited to announce up to 14 new benefits which launched in April 2023 including private health and dental insurance.
You may have a personal connection, a desire to work with or real life experiences working with autistic people. You will have experience supporting vulnerable people in a residential setting and if you share our values and are willing to make a difference to the lives of autistic people, we’d love to hear from you.
You’ll be joining our team, both locally and nationally and we’ll support you every step of the way.
To apply for the role, please click the button at the end of this page to apply online.
Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks which will include reference and criminal background checks.
We are passionate about supporting autistic people into work, and particularly welcome applications from autistic people. We help autistic people from all backgrounds and strive to represent the same diversity in our staff and volunteers. We particularly encourage applications from people from all minority groups, who are currently under-represented in our workforce. Together, we can create a society that works for autistic people.
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
