Relief Support Worker

Are you looking for a diverse role that is fun, stimulating and rewarding every day? We are currently looking for a Relief Support Worker to join our friendly staff team.

We are looking for warm, caring and proactive Support Workers to provide quality person-centred care and support at our vibrant supported living service in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. You will be responsible for providing respectful high intensity personal care as well as practical and emotional support to individuals with learning disabilities, complex needs, mental health needs and autism. Ensuring that service users live a valued and fulfilled life. No two days will be the same at this service as our service users love to engage in a wide range of exciting activities within their homes and out in the community!

Support Worker Duties:

• Provision of practical, emotional and behavioural support to service users,
• Provide support to individuals with cooking, cleaning, housework and other life skills,
• A commitment to making a positive difference in individuals lives,
• Develop and sustain warm and trusting relationships with service users,
• Carry out general administrative duties and housing management tasks.

Previous care experience is essential for all Relief roles.

Candidates must have a clean, valid driving licence.

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, including directions. You will be paid on a weekly basis.

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.