Cygnet Group are looking for a confident Care & Support Worker.
You will work full‑time, 42 hours a week on 12‑hour shifts, including alternate weekends where you may be scheduled 4 shifts in week one and 3 shifts in week two on a two‑week rotating rota; days only shifts are also available. Your work will make a positive difference to the lives of people in our care at Oxley Woodhouse.
Oxley Woodhouse is a specialist residential service in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, supporting people with learning disabilities, complex needs and behaviours that may challenge. We encourage and enable the people we support to lead a full and happy life, giving them choice and control and treating each person as an individual with unique strengths and preferences.
Main duties of the job
- Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach for all the people in our care
- Provide guidance and encouragement through physical and emotional support
- Learn about individuals’ specific needs and provide help in the most appropriate way
- Assist with and report on medical and welfare needs
- Safeguard service users
- Maintain a safe, clean environment for all
- Support service users to access the community, including work, college, hobbies, activities, day out and holidays
- Support service users to grow, develop and learn through engaging them in tasks such as cooking and cleaning
About you
- Genuinely driven to make a real difference in people’s lives
- Excellent communicator and good team player
- Sensitive, intuitive and energetic to provide a trusting, stimulating and varied environment
- Capable of empowering and supporting service user independence
Why Cygnet? We offer you
- Salary: £13.15 per hour, rising to £13.45 per hour after three months (£29,435.70 first year) and to £13.70 per hour after 18 months
- Opportunity to undertake further learning through an excellent apprenticeship scheme
- Flexible working with the possibility of overtime
- Regular coaching and appraisal
- Employee discount savings and Cycle to Work scheme
- Wellbeing centre providing exercises, recipes, financial and mental health advice
- Enhanced DBS check required for successful candidates
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised date if the role is filled, so please apply promptly.
Person Specification
General requirements can be found in the job description above.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure and Barring Service checks.
Salary: £13.15 per hour, rising to £13.45 after 3 months (£29,435 per annum).
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