Enabling Support Worker
Location: Complex Care - Newcastle (Heaton and Walker)
Salary: £13.45 per hour
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time (40 hours per week)
Shaftesbury North East - Heaton and Walker
Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits
Are You the Enabling Support Worker We re Looking For?
Do you have a passion for supporting people with complex needs to live fulfilling, independent lives? Are you an experienced care professional ready to take the next step in your career?
At Shaftesbury North East, we're looking for a dedicated and motivated Enabling Support Worker to join our Complex Care Service. We are looking for someone with a sense of fun, to help make a real difference to the lives of the people we support every day. Knowledge of the local area would be advantageous.
About You
To be successful in this role, you'll have:
About the Role
As an Enabling Support Worker it will be your role to provide support and encouragement, by taking direction from both the person supported and the person centred support plan.
You will be required to maintain accurate records while at work, in line with the service requirements. You may also be required to administer personal care and medication.
There may be a requirement to cover sleep in sessions. You will be paid an additional £60 per sleep in.
Why Join Shaftesbury?
At Shaftesbury, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to flourish. Our values of being Open, Enabling, Inclusive and Courageous shape everything we do.
As part of our team, you'll join an organisation committed to delivering exceptional, person-centred support while investing in the development and wellbeing of our colleagues.
About Shaftesbury Independent Living
Shaftesbury Independent Living provides flexible, tailored support to people with a wide variety of needs and living situations. From a few hours of support each week to 24-hour care, we help people maximise their independence, engage with their communities, and live life to the fullest.
Supporting individuals from late teens through to older adulthood, our services focus on choice, inclusion, wellbeing, and achieving positive outcomes.
Our Benefits
We recognise the incredible contribution our colleagues make and offer a range of benefits to support and reward you:
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're an experienced care professional looking for a rewarding leadership role with an organisation that truly values its people, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and help us support people to live the lives they choose.
Shaftesbury is the disability charity that s committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them.
What makes life liveable is never down to just one thing - it s the sum of many things. From friendship to fun; from companionship to community; from a great chat to a challenge overcome, it all adds up to Shaftesbury.
Through a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services we promote inclusion and wellbeing for all. Together, we work to see people take part, contribute and be valued. We put the elements in place that all add up to connected lives.
Shaftesbury is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS/Access NI check.
Shaftesbury is committed to the Disability Confident Scheme and to equal opportunities therefore we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Shaftesbury Group, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.
