Support Worker At Azure Charitable Foundation

Employer: Azure Charitable Foundation
Job Title: Support Worker
Location: Newcastle, United Kingdom
Salary: £12.36 an hour
Hours: Full Time and Part time

Why Not Come and Join Azure Charitable Foundation Today?

If you are considering working in Care, Azure Charitable Foundation would love to hear from you. Personal experience of caring for someone and life experience counts.

If you are kind, reliable and enjoy helping people, then this is the job for you. Full training and shadowing shifts before you are supporting on a 1-1 basis, training continually updated.

Azure Charitable Foundation’s Support Worker roles are immensely rewarding and enjoyable and the organisation is looking for inspirational, enthusiastic Support Workers to join the staff family.

About the Role

Each client has tailored care plans, the main responsibilities of a Support Worker are – personal care (depending on the service) light housework, meal preparation, companionship, supporting with or administering medication, supporting clients to be independent and to achieve their personal goals.

Azure Charitable Foundation is looking for kind and compassionate people to join the team of Learning Disabilities Support Workers at the Newcastle services (NE55 area). Due to the clients having their own cars a full UK driving licence is preferred.

Azure’s aim is to support clients to achieve independence, exercise their personal freedoms and make choices about the lives they lead.

Why not have a look at Azure’s Facebook page to see the amazing things the organisation does with clients, you will be surprised.

Azure Charitable Foundation is looking for staff who enjoy working together to support clients to have the same life chances and choices as you and I in this world, learning or physical disabilities, and mental health problems, are not limitations.

Pay

• £12.36 /hr – full and part-time hours available!
• Generous sleep in payment
• Up to £500 – New starter bonus
• £500 refer a friend scheme

Role

As a Learning Disabilities Support Worker you will help clients with everyday tasks like:

• Supporting people with their social and physical activities, this could be helping to keep in touch with family and friends, maintaining and developing hobbies and interests such as recording a song into a CD, supporting people to attend music concerts, going to Cruft’s or to help a person to support Newcastle football club, meeting various players and professionals.
• Helping a person with meal planning and preparation whilst providing healthy advice and guidance of new and exciting things to try.
• Encouraging a person’s independence, this may mean you will need to do a small part of a task to empower the person to complete the job.
• Provide support in a person centred way, support individual people with their own needs and goals, following support and care plans.
• Be able to communicate on all levels, speaking out for those who are not able to, passing on important information.
• Helping with personalised care through individual choice and control whilst protecting people’s dignity, such as supporting someone to choose an outfit, get washed and dressed for the fun filled day ahead.

This position is an opportunity to work creatively with people with

Training

No experience is needed as all your training is fully funded by the charity and you will be paid for your time to complete your training.

Benefits

As a Learning Disabilities Support Worker, you will be provided with:

• 28 days’ annual leave rising to 33 days including bank holidays (pro-rata for part -time)
• Full time and part–time working patterns.
• Sickness benefits
• Full induction and shadowing programme.
• Fully funded training
• Regular supervision sessions.
• An annual appraisal and personal development plan.
• Paid DBS and online registration
• Paid working breaks within shift pattern
• Discount at our Garden Centre
• Blue light discount card scheme
• Working hours and shift patterns for the full month
• Employee recognition scheme
• Up to 45p per mile travel allowance.
• Life insurance plan
• Group personal pension scheme with matching employer contributions up to 6.5%
• Opportunity to progress your career
• Free PPE

How to Apply

If this opportunity interests you, head to the company’s official website for full details — click here to submit your application.