Part Time Support Worker - Kent Residential Home, Gravesend

Help transform lives by joining our team.

It's not easy, and it's not for everyone. But as a support worker, the rewards can be so much bigger than the challenges. You really will make a positive difference to people’s lives.

You’ll be joining our team, both locally and nationally and we’ll support you every step of the way.

We need you to be resilient, supportive and sensitive towards the needs of autistic people. Being a support worker takes bravery, patience and commitment. But working with autistic people gives so much more in return.

You may have a personal connection, a desire to work with or real life experiences working with autistic people. You might not have lots of experience yet, but if you share our values and are willing to make a difference to the lives of autistic people, we’d love to hear from you.

We offer a fantastic one year induction programme, continuing learning and development opportunities and the support you need to develop a career in social care. Along with a host of benefits – from shopping discounts to flexible working and a competitive pension scheme.

We are passionate about supporting autistic people into work, and particularly welcome applications from autistic people. We help autistic people from all backgrounds and strive to represent the same diversity in our staff and volunteers. We particularly encourage applications from people from all minority groups, who are currently under-represented in our workforce. Together, we can create a society that works for autistic people.

We are looking for a committed individual with a positive attitude, who has a passion to work in an organisation that specialises in autism, supporting autistic adults to live the life they choose.

You’ll be working with autistic adults and their families. You will be providing support and care to autistic adults enabling each individual to live independently, to develop their independent living skills, achieve their goals and access activities within the community.

The Service

Overcliffe is a residential home in the Gravesend area consisting of two houses that are next to each other. The age range of the service users is between 33 years - 72 years and all have lived at Overcliffe together for many years. Some have known each other for over 40 years so they are a very close knit group! All the people we support at Overcliffe attend our day centre at SAND Monday- Friday. In the evenings and weekends, the service users have structured activities. This can include cooking, washing, ironing and cleaning.

Current or previous experience of supporting individuals who display challenging behaviour is desirable but not essential as full training is given

We offer:

• £10.50 enhanced overtime rate
• £50 sleep in rate
• Excellent training and development programme
• Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance counselling programme
• Online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits including shopping discounts on a wide range of high street retailers

Your working pattern will be varied over a seven day rota and could include weekends. The shift pattern is varied morning and evening shifts 8am -3pm and 3pm-10pm . Sleep ins are optional and paid at £50 per night

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Please email the Recruitment Team at SERecruitment@nas.org.uk if you have any additional questions regarding the role.

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Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks.