Waking Nights Support Worker

Waking Nights Support Worker – Uphall, West Lothian

35 hours per week

Shift times : 10 : 00pm- 9 : 00am (£12.00 per hour)

The Role

We support a diverse group of 5 adults with learning difficulties and autism. You will be supporting these individuals to live an ordinary life with bespoke levels of support in and around various areas of Uphall and Livingston. 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.

You will be working in the person's own home ensuring opportunities to reach their full potential are available. Please note this role does require lone working, therefore experience would be preferable. We do support service users who are nonverbal, so excellent and adaptable communication skills are essential.

The role will involve : encouraging service users to participate in their personal care when preparing for night time and for the morning, medication administration, adhering to cleaning schedules, ironing, conducting nightly checks, accurate recording, ensuring the house is secure and completing financial and health and safety checks.

Drivers preferred due to limited public transport but this is not essential.

An enhanced 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
• 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 :

If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for :

Honest - Good Communicator - Strong Values – Flexible - Passionate - Self Motivated - Reliable - Caring - Inclusive

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.

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.