Relief Support Worker

Creative Support is a national, fast growing, not-for-profit organisation providing care and support to individuals with a wide range of needs. We are currently looking for Relief Support Workers to join our staff teams across Bedfordshire to take key roles in the running of excellent services.

The benefits of joining Creative Support as a Relief/Bank staff member is the flexibility to pick shifts to suit you and work in services that are local to you. We pay for a DBS for all staff and provide a free uniform where required.

You will be paid on a weekly basis.

You will join an established team of staff supporting people with a range of needs in Support Living or Residential Care Services providing everyone with an excellent quality of life. If you would like the rewarding role of working with people who have learning disabilities, mental health needs or older people to achieve their life goals and be part of the local community then we would love to hear from you.

Relief Support Worker Duties:

• Providing respectful and dignified personal care,
• Medication administration,
• Supporting service users with the activities they enjoy, such as bowling and going on walks
• Collaborating with colleagues, families and involved professionals to ensure a coordinated and consistent service.

Previous experience is essential for this role, as is a ‘can-do approach’, person-centered values, energy and commitment. You will need good verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work to support plans and corporate policies and procedures.

Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme. We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.

Please note, we do not accept CVs as a form of application.

We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.