Female Support Worker - Creative Support Ltd : Job Details

Are you looking for a diverse role that is fun, stimulating and rewarding every day?

Creative Support is looking for a warm, reliable and proactive Female Support Worker to join our friendly staff team in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. Here we provide quality care and support to individuals with learning disabilities and mental health support needs based primarily in tenancies within the Calderdale area of West Yorkshire. Our aim is to enable individuals to enjoy a high quality of life and to be active in their community.

Your role will include:

• Encouraging service users to engage in a range of exciting social activities both within and outside their homes,
• Developing warm and trusting relationships with service users and their families enabling them to enjoy their time at the service to the fullest,

We are keen to expand our dedicated Support Worker team in Calderdale; we pride ourselves on being diverse, positive, and hardworking, qualities that the ideal candidate will have. You will be able to use your own initiative, as well as work effectively within a team. You will work in a person centred way, putting the individuals you support at the heart of the care you deliver.

Ideally, you will have prior experience of providing care and support to people with a learning disability/mental health support needs. However, this is not essential as we can offer full training for people who have strong person centred values and are passionate about making a difference.

Benefits of working with Creative Support:

• A one-off bonus of £100 upon successful completion of the 4-month probationary period.
• Competitive pay and a pension with company contribution and 28 days annual leave,
• Company paid enhanced DBS for all staff
• Free employee support programme
• All our staff are supported 24/7 by our out-of-hours teams
• Support to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and Social Care Diploma

We are a passionate, inclusive and anti-racist organisation. We embrace diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. As a Disability Confident Employer we welcome applications from people with a disability, and as a proud Stonewall Diversity Champion we actively encourage applications from the LGBT+ community.

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.

‘Gender is considered to be an occupational requirement – Equality Act 2010’