Support Worker - Alveston

Salary: £24,180 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) + £500 Welcome Bonus

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join a well-established team in Alveston to support 3 gentlemen with learning disabilities and/or autism to live their best lives. Full time or part time hours are available.

Ancora is a small, supported living service just outside of Thornbury, in Alveston. The service supports three older gentlemen with learning disabilities and/or autism. The service provides a homely environment with a well-established, experienced team. It is a perfect opportunity to learn new skills and gain new experiences by utilising the knowledge of the existing team members.

If you share our values and are ready for a new challenge, this job is for you!

As a Support Worker, you will encourage positive self-image, maintain health and wellbeing, assist with decision-making and promote independence.

Supporting people to develop and maintain contact with family and friends, you will provide access to the community, enabling the people we support to participate in sports clubs, social events and creative endeavours.

You may support with managing tenancy issues and help with personal care and daily living skills, as well as administering medication.

The successful Support Worker will:

• Have excellent communication skills
• Have a caring manner and a tolerant nature
• Be committed to delivering high quality care to the individuals
• Work well as part of a team but also independently
• Be pro-active and use your own initiative to problem solve.
• Have excellent time keeping

At Milestones Trust we recognise that without the hard work, commitment and passion of our staff, we wouldn’t be the charity that we are today. In return, we are committed to rewarding you with a competitive pay and benefits package including: 

• 30 days annual leave entitlement
• Company pension scheme, to help grow your retirement pot
• Learning and development opportunities to help you to build your career, including a comprehensive induction programme, and the opportunity to undertake further qualifications
• Health Cash Plan on completion of probation giving you access to a minimum of £695 cash back for health treatments e.g. dental, therapies, optical, maternity/paternity, NHS prescriptions etc.
• Generous Occupational Maternity/Paternity pay
• Get paid when you want – access your money as you earn it and request your earnings before payday using Dayforce Wallet
• Access to an Employee Discount Platform from day one, with discounts and cashback for hundreds of retailers
• An employee referral scheme that allows you to earn money for referring friends and family.

We are looking for people who are able to work flexibly over 7 days, with a variety of different shifts, including sleep ins.

This is an on-going advert and interviews will be held on an ad-hoc basis until sufficient applications have been received.

Milestones Trust is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all the individuals that it supports, it expects the same commitment from all employees. If successful at interview an enhanced DBS check will take place. (Formerly CRB) A criminal record is not necessarily a barrier to recruitment. Committed to Equality and Diversity for all.