Support worker

Support Worker

Long Eaton

20 hours per week

Do you genuinely desire to help others and are you looking for a rewarding career? We invite you to join our dedicated team of Support Workers here at Real Life Options.

As a support worker, every day is different! You will be involved with travelling into the community on public transport to go shopping, or participate in hobbies and interests as well as domestic support, personal care, medication administration and meal preparation. This role is split over two different services to give a good range of different support levels that can be offered.

Real Life Options provide job opportunities that are flexible. This position will require shift work, which will include evenings, sleepovers, nights, and weekends.

Benefits and Rewards

At Real Life Options we treat our people with the same respect, care and consideration that we show to the people we support:

• A competitive rate of pay - £9.50 per hour
• A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)
• Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
• An employer contributory pension scheme

In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:

• Health Cash Plan (Full time/part time contracted hours)
• A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
• £10,000 Life cover
• Refer a Friend Incentive £250 Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
• A financial wellbeing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
• Recognition Initiatives

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:

Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence

If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for:

Honest - Good Communicator - Strong Values – Flexible - Passionate - Self Motivated - Reliable - Caring - Inclusive

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in the selection process, we'll be happy to accommodate you and make reasonable adjustments to our process to enable you to perform at your best, so please do let us know.