Bank Support Worker - Forest

Bank Support Worker
- New Forest (Internally known as Premier Crew)

Location:
Blackfield, New Forest

Salary: £15.00 per hour (Mon
- Fri) to £18.57 per hour (Sat & Sun)

Contract Type:
Sessional

Hours:
Flexible hours available

Suitable applicants will be appointed – we are fortunate enough to be recruiting to multiple Premier Crew positions for this service.

YOU
is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Somerset and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives.

“Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated us Outstanding in Care”

Essential Criteria

The successful Sessional Support Worker will need to have:

• Able to work shifts including evenings, weekends and bank holidays
• Experience of supporting vulnerable people with a variety of needs
• Experience in promoting and encouraging people's independence
• Good communication skills: verbal, non-verbal, and written

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Bank of Support Workers within our internal bank agency, Premier Crew. Working with Premier Crew provides flexibility to work shifts that suit your work life balance. Our Premier Crew Support Workers support our clients with all aspects of their daily lives, including finding work or volunteering opportunities, accessing education at local colleges, getting involved in community events, as well as helping with budgeting support, some aspects of personal care, cooking and cleaning and maintaining a home.

About You

The desirable qualities for a Premier Crew Support Worker are as follows, please note while these are desirable, they are not essential:

* Being a car driver with access to use of a vehicle for work purposes (with business insurance)

* Experience working with people with learning disabilities

* Flexibility to work across multiple services in your chosen area

* Experience working as a Support Worker

The people we support would like to work with people who are enthusiastic, trustworthy, reliable and who have an overall positive attitude. YOU has a strong value base, striving to be person-centred, innovative, trustworthy, can-do and excellent at all times, so it is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.

We are a disability confident employer.

Our Benefits

We can offer you:

• Competitive hourly rates and paid travel time during your working hours.
• Excellent and professionally certified training.
• The flexibility to choose from the available shifts that best suit your needs whilst earning money doing something you love.
• Real opportunities to develop in your profession should you wish to do so through access to all internally and externally advertised job opportunities, as well as through a growth in knowledge and experience of working with different client groups and service types through bank work.
• Online 24/7 access to your personal rota.
• A company that is committed to its employees, bank workers and volunteers valuing their knowledge, individuality, creativity and flexibility.

The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undertake appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check.

Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to adults and/or children it is an offence to apply for the role if you have been barred from engaging in such regulated activity.

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