Position: Support Worker
Location: Market Harborough, LE16
Hours: 37.5 contracted hours per week (Mon‑Sun, including weekends, days, evenings, holidays and sleep‑ins)
Salary: £25,007.65 per annum (£13.33 p/h)
Job ref: 5096
About The Role
Advance is looking for Support Workers in Market Harborough to support customers with learning disabilities, autism, complex needs, or mental health conditions to live the lives they choose. We offer great benefits, flexible working and all the training and support you need to kick‑start a rewarding career in Social Care.
Day to Day Activities
- Assisting with personal care and hygiene (if required)
- Medication administration (if required)
- Support with preparing and cooking meals
- Support with attending medical appointments
- Support with social activities
- Support with independent skills
- Support with domestic duties such as cleaning and laundry
- Keeping accurate records and updating care plans as required
- Keeping up to date with your training
About The Candidate
You don’t need to have previous experience working in care or support to be successful in this role (although it’s desirable). What matters are your values, your passion and determination to make a difference in the lives of people with autism or learning disabilities.
- Good at working on your own and within a team
- Excellent at communicating with people
- Able to complete quality support records
- Able to work weekends
- Have the flexibility to work sleep‑ins
- Ability to follow a Support Plan and Risk Assessments and maintain customer records
- Need to be literate and numerate in English
- Willingness and ability to achieve the Care Certificate
- Have experience supporting adults with mental health and learning difficulties
- Able to work with a diverse group of customers
- Trusted individual to manage customer cash handling
- Care certification (desirable)
- Must hold a full UK driving licence
Benefits Of Working For Advance
- Flexible hours to fit around you and the needs of our customers
- Paid mileage and travel time between appointments
- Paid holiday (from 25 days up to 30 days with long service in addition to bank holidays, pro rata for part‑time hours)
- Sector specific training is provided as part of induction plus opportunities for professional development
- Access to Perks at Work where you can obtain great discounts on cinema tickets, shopping vouchers and much more
- Long service awards payable in 5‑year increments
- Golden Hello/referral bonus up to £500
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Free DBS (Disclosures and Barring Service)
- Excellent opportunities to progress your career within Advance
- Enrolment in a pension scheme with matched contributions above the statutory minimum (if you work enough hours to meet the threshold for enrolment)
We are an equal opportunities employer who values its staff and the difference they make to their customers. There is no place for racism or discrimination of any kind in Advance. We are firmly committed to recruiting the best colleagues regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation and to supporting customers from similarly diverse backgrounds.
We value diversity and therefore welcome applications from everyone interested in working at Advance.
Advance Housing & Support Ltd reserves the right to close this job once sufficient applications have been received.
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