Position
Casual Support Worker
Location
Canvey Island, Essex
Hours and Salary
Zero contracted hours (Mon‑Sun, including weekends, days, evenings, holidays and sleep‑ins). £14.94 per hour inclusive of holiday pay or £13.33 per hour exclusive of holiday pay.
Job Ref
5060
About the Role
Advance is looking for Casual Support Workers to support customers with learning disabilities, autism, complex needs and mental health conditions to live the lives they choose.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Ensuring the premises are secure and safe during the night
- Supporting with meal times and food preparation (if required)
- Supporting with regular checks on the customer to ensure their safety
Qualifications
- Good at working on your own and within a team
- Excellent at communicating with people
- Able to complete quality support records
- Able to work every other weekend
- 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
Benefits
- Flexible hours to fit around you and the needs of our customers
- Paid mileage and travel time between appointments
- 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 more
- Long‑service awards payable in five‑year increments
- Golden Hello/referral up to £500
- 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)
Equal Opportunities
Advance is 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 fully 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.
Additional Information
Advance is regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing and the Care Quality Commission. Applicants will be required to provide evidence of right to work and an enhanced DBS disclosure, the cost of which will be covered by Advance.
Advance Housing & Support Ltd reserves the right to close this job once sufficient applications have been received.
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