Location: Malton, North Yorkshire
Salary: £8.50ph + sleep over payment
Application Deadline: 30/09/2019
About the role
This is a wonderful opportunity to make a positive difference in people’s lives.
As a support worker, you will support people with differing needs with all aspects of their lives. Your day may be quite varied. You will help people with the practical aspects of their lives, such as helping them to shop, prepare meals, wash, clean their home, understand their money and take their medication.
You will enable the individuals you support to have an active social life, helping them to make friends and maintain friendships and to access and enjoy leisure activities.
You will be helping each person to live their life in a way that makes sense to them, to exercise independent choice and control, to learn new skills and to develop their independence.
About us
Camphill Village Trust is an award-winning national charity supporting people with learning and other disabilities. We provide housing, care, support and day opportunities to people with learning and other difficulties. We support people to be safe, healthy, happy and to be active citizens living a life of opportunity. We provide housing, care, support and day opportunities.
Our Croft community is based in Malton which is easily accessible via public transport. For further information please see our Q&A document attached.
What we provide
We provide a full induction and free training. We will support you to obtain the Care Certificate when you first join us and to obtain further professional qualifications later if you want to do so.
Our hourly rate of pay is £8.50 and we currently pay £35 (+ top-up of £32.50) a night for a sleep in. Additional hours are often available. You could earn up to £22,125 per annum.
What we need from you
No qualifications or previous experience are needed. You may have previous experience in care, just be starting work, or looking to do something different. What is important to us is that you share our values, have a positive attitude and a willingness to learn. You will be good at both listening to and talking with people. You will have a positive and patient approach to supporting people with daily activities and enjoy helping people learn and explore new things. You have a flexible approach and like work both as part a team as well as on your own.
Working as a Bank Support Worker, shifts will be offered on an adhoc basis when required this will involve working both daytime and evenings and some weekends and bank holidays and sleeping over or working through the night on some shifts.
Full-time Hours (37.5 per week) may be available – please enquire.
You will need a full manual driving licence which allows you to drive in the UK, as you will be driving the charity’s vehicles.
Next Steps
If this job sounds like the right one for you, click Apply and complete the short online application form. We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.
We’ll respond to your application within three working days. We will not wait until the closing date to arrange interviews so if we have filled the vacancies before the advertised closing date we will close this advert early.
Successful applicants for this role will require an Enhanced DBS check. We committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults. We will undertake checks of successful candidates before starting work, which will include an Enhanced DBS check. For more details please see our webpage on the recruitment process.
If you would like to find out more, please feel free to contact us on 01653 602721.
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