Support Worker-Minstead

Support Worker – An inspirational role working with inspirational people

Hours: Full-Time (37.5hrs per week) and Part-time (20hrs per week) available

Location: Minstead

Salary: £19,012.50 – £ 19,987.50 (Depending on qualifications) equal to £9.75 per hour

Minstead Trust offers great employee benefits:

• 25 Days Holiday (Pro Rata)
• A Celebration Day’s Leave for Your Birthday
• Death in Service Insurance
• Company Pension
• Sodexo Staff Discounted Benefit Platform
• Health Care Scheme
• Cycle to Work
• Free Parking
• Plus A Great Sleep In Rate of £62.64 to £70.47 per night (based on 8 hours)

Minstead Trust, a leading learning disabilities charity based in the heart of the beautiful New Forest, is offering the opportunity for a support worker to join its Residential Team.

The Trust is over thirty years old and has grown from humble beginnings to become an organisation of over 100 people delivering care to adults with wide-ranging care needs across three counties.

About the job:

Your primary role will be to provide support to people with their personal, social and health care needs as required. Our staff members make a real difference to individual lives. We support individuals to access a variety of activities from going to the cinema to accessing education at college or engaging in day service opportunities or work based enterprises.

Following guidelines policies and procedures, you will be required to maintain accurate, clear and concise records, support individuals in taking prescribed medication, communicate and engage effectively with all people involved in the people we supports lives and contribute to improving the quality of support provided through working with others.

Duties include:

• To support individuals to meet their goals and outcomes in health, wellbeing and independence
• To support people with their individual personal, social and healthcare needs as required
• To work as part of a team but also to lone work in the community as needed
• To be a keyworker to allocated individuals
• Interacting and communicating with the people you support in a way that promotes dignity and respect
• Supporting individuals with everyday tasks from cooking to personal care as required
• Working both as part of a team and also lone working with the people we support
• Working flexible shifts*
• *Our services provide 24/7 support 365 days a year. The role includes working evenings, weekends, bank holidays and sleep in shifts on a rota pattern. We can only consider people who will commit to working these types of shifts.

About you:

• We are seeking people who are: responsible, motivated, honest, approachable, good communicators, committed to providing equal opportunities and quality support. In addition, due to our location a driving licence is preferred but is not essential. A Level 2 NVQ in Health & Social care is also desirable.

To apply download the application form and return the completed form to careers@minsteadtrust.org.uk

Please contact the HR Department on 02380 812297 if you have any questions. 

All staff working for, or on behalf of Minstead Trust, understand their responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults at risk and know who to escalate concerns to within Minstead Trust.

Please note that due to changes in government rules on the vaccination status for care providers, all applicants need to be fully vaccinated or have received their first COVID-19 vaccine by 16th September and their second does by 11 November for an offer of employment to be made.

(Note: We only shortlist from Application Forms in accordance with Safer Recruitment Guidelines)

Due to the nature of this employment sector, your application is subject to a successful Disclosure & Barring Service Check (DBS, formerly CRB)