Waking Nights Support Worker - Livingston
Waking Nights Support Worker
Bathgate, West Lothian- 5 Hours Per Week - 3 Nights a week
£12.00 per hour
The Role
Start your career with Real Life Options knowing that you’re making a difference by promoting independence and creating more opportunities for the people we support.
The role involves providing night support for adults living in a multiple occupancy home. The successful candidate will be working a waking night shift, providing support for individuals with learning disabilities and other conditions.
Our Support Workers provide a person centred approach in providing quality support, which makes our service very flexible and adaptable to each individual’s needs. We support people to enhance their quality of life at home and within their community.
Shifts would generally be 9:30pm-8:00am
You will work three nights per week and these will vary.
You will work as part of a team, as well as independently to support individuals within their own home, supporting them to reach their full potential. Due to service requirements this role would require flexibility.
Support needs can range from: enabling a person to participate in their personal care, medication, emotional support, daily living activities, and social support.
The role of a Support Worker is integral to the quality of support provision and can be rewarding and inspiring. You will support people to identify and work towards meaningful outcomes and to participate in their community and develop new and maintain existing relationships.Experience of supporting with challenging behaviour would be beneficial.
An enhanced Adult PVG is required for this role.
Benefits and Rewards
A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff)Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job
An employer contributory pension scheme
In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:
Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours)£10,000 Life cover
A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
Cycle to Work Scheme
A financial wellbeing scheme
Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
Recognition Initiatives
We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:
Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence
Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.