Life Enabler (Transforming Care)
Location: Hillingdon UB8
Application deadline: Thursday 4th November 2021
Salary: £21,214.46 per annum
Region: Hillingdon

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity to join Certitude as a Support Worker (Life Enabler) as we continue to grow as a Social Care provider in London. At the Certitude Group, not only are we proud of our history of supporting people with complex mental health needs and learning disabilities, we are also making history as we are supporting a young man to move into his own house as part of the Transforming Care programme.

Transforming Care is all about supporting people with learning disabilities and/or autism to live in their own homes, in the community, and most importantly closer to their family and friends.

Salary: £21,214.46 per annum
Hours: 35 hours
Job type: Permanent
Service: Transforming Care
Location: Hillingdon UB8
Shift pattern: 5 days a week - mornings, evenings and sleep-ins

Benefits

- Excellent opportunities for professional development in social care. Specialist training will include Positive Behaviour Support, Person Centred Active Support, autism training, Intensive Interaction Training, Non-Abusive Physical & Psychological Interventions (NAPPI)
- Excellent opportunities for progression
- A stimulating work environment full of opportunities to learn and develop 33 days’ annual leave, pension scheme and 24-hour Employee Assistance
- Paid Enhanced DBS
- Eye care vouchers
- Travel season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme (eligible after 12 months service)

About the role

The purpose of this role is to work as part of a team supporting a young man with Autism and complex needs and to ensure that he can grow and have a life that any person deserves.

Duties will include:

- Making a difference to the life of the person being supported
- Helping the person being supported to explore their hobbies and interests
- Helping to use a range of recovery oriented and person-centred planning tools
- Ensuring all plans and records relating to the people we support are accurate and up to date
- Supporting with everyday tasks to maximise the individual’s independence
- Working in a consistent and positive way with local managers and other team members to ensure a great service
- Undertaking various levels of personal care and manual handling

About you

To be a Support Worker at Certitude, experience is not essential. Full training will be given; however, the following are essential:

- You will need to have a ‘can-do’ resilient attitude and be committed to inspiring positive change in this young person’s life
- You will need to be engaging, patient, and be able to inject fun in activities and during everyday support
- Have a pro-active approach as no two days will be the same
- You will need to be creative, intuitive, and able to improvise when needed. If you have a curious mind and are solution orientated, we welcome you
- Be motivated to learn new skills and mentor your peers
- Be able cook and clean with meticulous attention to detail
- Be reliable and dependable as a team member
- Be able to work with S-AM’s family in a professional manner
- It would be an advantage if you were able to speak some Portuguese
- A background in sports, therapy or drama/music/yoga/tai-chi
- Ideally a full, clean manual driver’s license
- You must be an outgoing individual with a proactive nature
- It’s important you understand Autism and its complexities and unpredictabilities
- If you come from an artistic background, we would love to hear from you, as we would like to encourage these activities to take place with S-AM

About the Organisation

The Certitude Group are proud of our history of supporting people with complex mental health needs and learning disabilities. We support more than 1,800 people across London through a diverse range of support services and believe in providing the right level of support, to enable individuals to flourish, contribute and live a good life.

As a Gold Level Investor in People, we have high employee engagement and a strong commitment to people development from both our Board and Leadership Team. As a result, we are able to support people with mental health needs and learning disabilities to live the life they want to lead; happy, healthy, respected as equals and valued for their contribution within communities.

We aim to be the best social care employer in London and are proud of our reputation as a London employer - employing more than 1,500 staff and volunteers with a turnover of £48m.

Our Values

- Working Together
- Continuously Improving
- Inspired by People
- Dependable

Do you want to be a Support Worker at Certitude? Complete an application form and someone from the Recruitment Team will be in touch!

All our posts are subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure as well as a full employment history and employment references. We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and service delivery, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We reserve the right to close vacancies before the date stated when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered.

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