PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy is for a Mencap affiliated Network Partner and not for Royal Mencap Society.
Community Connex is a campaigning organisation and a multi-project service provider working across West London, supporting disabled people, those experiencing other disadvantages and their families to live healthier, happier, and inclusive lives by ensuring their needs, rights and aspirations are met.
Role Purpose:
We are looking for Support Workers. This role sits within community services for children, young people and adults with learning disabilities and autism and mental health diagnosis.
You will help support the welfare of service users attending our day opportunities centre. Your duties will include key working and doing reports, adhering to care plans of our service users whilst providing social, health and personal care. You will also need to plan and carry out various activities and help support service users to participate in activities and events within our centres and in the community, you may also be required to work across our sites in Pinner Green and Ruislip.
The successful candidate will be required to work individually and as part of a team to support and enable our clients in developing new and existing skills. You will be expected to work flexible hours, including weekends and bank holidays in accordance to service needs.
Key duties:
- To provide professional care and support to vulnerable people.
- Provide person-centred care.
- Conduct client needs assessments and reviews.
- Organise play and leisure activities for children, young people and adults.
- Develop and ensure regular review of individual care and support plans.
Our ideal candidate:
- Educated to GCSE level.
- Hold a Health and Social care qualification.
- Passionate about supporting vulnerable people.
- Ideally have some experience working in the Health and Social Care Sector.
- Able to work individually and as part of a team.
- Have an outgoing, positive, empathetic personality and a clear communication style.
In return we offer a range of benefits including:
- Pension contribution up to 5%.
- Death in service insurance.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Bluelight Card.
- 23 days of Annual Leave + bank holidays (increases after 2 years of service).
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Company events.
- Professional Development.
We are committed to safeguarding and equal opportunities, and we guarantee an interview to all applicants with disabilities meeting the minimum criteria for the post.
We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident committed employer.
To express an interest in this post, please email your CV to: [email protected] .
Please note that the position will be filled as soon as the successful candidate is received and interviewed.
PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy is for a Mencap affiliated Network Partner and not for Royal Mencap Society. Network Partners sign up to a terms of membership and pay a membership fee to subscribe Royal Mencap Society’s Network and each local group is a separate and independent charity within their own right. As part of the group’s membership they have the opportunity to advertise their vacancies on the Royal Mencap Society jobs website.
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