Support Worker

Support Worker- Sheffield Day Services

30 hours per week

Male or Female

We offer a competitive rate of £10.42ph plus great benefits!

We are looking for people to join our friendly and welcoming team in Sheffield Day Services, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, where you will have the opportunity to enhance people’s lives. We deliver creative, dynamic and person centred services providing a range of individualised support to people living in a Day Centre.

You will be supporting adults with Autism and learning disabilities to lead a meaningful and active life, to encourage independence through skill building and active choices and to engage and participate in activities both in the day centre and the community. There are elements of budgeting and personal care and some services require us to travel with them to and from home as part of their support. This is a varied role with 19 services users and growing.

You’ll have a really rewarding role working with a great team of people and the chance to make a real difference to other people’s lives. We will support you along your career path to learn, develop and grow.

Real Life Options offers flexible employment opportunities. Working hours are typically between 8am and 4pm. Infrequent evenings and weekends may be required for specific events we put on.

Previous experience is desirable for this position although full training will be provided

An enhanced adult DBS application will be required for successful applicants.

Benefits and Rewards

• 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 (for full/part time contracted hours)
• £10,000 Life cover
• A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
• A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• A financial wellbeing scheme
• Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
• 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 selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know