Relief Support Worker

Creative Support is a thriving and progressive national third sector social care organisation, with a passion for delivering high quality and meaningful services to the people we support.

We are looking for confident Relief Support Workers to provide person centred support to service users within our Billingham services who have a learning disability and complex needs so that they can experience a wide range of opportunities for personal development.

Relief Support Worker Duties:

• Provide respectful personal care and support to individuals with cooking, cleaning, housework and other life skills
• Supporting service users in accessing social and leisure activities

• Develop and sustain warm and trusting relationships with service users
• Carry out general administrative duties, housing management tasks and medication distribution

You will have skills in positive communication and engagement and will be able to demonstrate unconditional positive regard for the people we support within our Billingham services. You will have the confidence to be able to work within a positive behaviour support framework, to accept responsibility and to develop as a skilled practitioner. You must be able to follow agreed guidelines and to work positively within a consistent, mutually supportive team ethos.

Car drivers are preferable as there is an opportunity to drive service user’s cars to participate in activities in the Billingham community.

This is a Relief Support Worker position which is ideal for fitting around personal commitments, study or caring responsibilities. Previous care experience is essential for our relief roles.

As a Creative Support Bank Staff member you will have access to our free app which allows you to pick up shifts in any area of the country and provides information on the service and shifts, including directions. You will be paid weekly.

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

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.

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.