Working at David Lewis

David Lewis is a modern, forward-thinking charity with a track record and reputation built over 100 years. We provide a range of educational, residential and medical services to support adults and young people with complex needs, including learning disabilities, epilepsy and autism. We are based in Cheshire, but through our residential services, support people from across the UK.

What Does David Lewis Offer?

Our extensive portfolio of services includes:

• A specialist school and further education college
• A specialist school and further education college offering residential and day placements for young people from the age of fourteen upwards.
• Residential services
• Residential services for adults, either living in accommodation at our Warford site or in one of our community houses in a local town or village.
• Adult day services, providing opportunities to develop both social skills and vocational skills vocational skills with the potential to lead to employment opportunities.
• Access to nursing and medical care, appropriate to an individual’s needs.

Our team of circa 900 highly-trained personnel deliver services both in the community and at our Warford site, where there is access to outstanding facilities including a swimming pool, sports hall and gym, sensory gardens, animal centre and café.

What We Can Offer

Our mission is to provide an excellent support service to individuals with learning disabilities in the meaningful transformation of their lives and achievement of their aspirations. We do this through our Residential and Day Services, our specialist on-site School and College, work training and supporting hobbies and interests. As one of the UK’s largest providers of care and education we deliver our services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

We could never accomplish this without the dedication of our team of employees. Around 900 people are employed in a broad spectrum of roles from care, teaching, medical and therapies through to administration, finance and human resources. Every person is committed to enhancing the lives of our Service Users by encouraging independence, instilling confidence and always being there when we are needed.

On top of an extremely competitive salary, we offer:

• Occupational Sick Pay
• Company Pension Scheme
• 28-38 days paid holiday
• Life Assurance of 3 x Annual Salary
• Sponsorship through professional qualifications
• Comprehensive induction and on-going training
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Reduced Costco membership
• Pay enhancements for weekends, nights and bank holidays
• Workplace mentoring support
• Occupational health service
• Access to employee retail discount and cashback schemes
• Free DBS check completed by David Lewis
• Free parking