Support Worker

Support Worker

30 hours per week

Location : Glasgow Southside and Surrounding areas

12.60 per hour

Start your career with Real Life Options in a rewarding role where you can really make a difference. We are looking for caring, trustworthy and dedicated individuals to join our team. Every day is different as we promote our service users to make their own choices, achieve their goals and live as independently as possible.

You will be able to help people you support to live the individual life they want, ensuring they have choice and control over the planning and delivery of their support. You will enable them to reach their potential by providing both physical and emotional support along with encouraging them to develop positive relationships and to be an equal and valued member of their local community.

The individuals we support have varied levels of verbal communication. It would be advantageous if you have previous experience of working with adults with challenging behaviour, although this is not essential, as full training will be provided.

Working with individuals on a 24-hour rota (including sleepover shifts), you will provide support with, medication administration, household tasks, meal preparation, leisure pursuits, social inclusion, and emotional support.

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
• Mileage paid at 35p per mile flat rate up to 10,000 per year

In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits :

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.