Support Worker - Day & Night Shifts

This position does not meet the requirements for sponsorship under current UK immigration guidelines Do you have genuine passion for supporting people with Autism and/or behaviour that challenges to help them work to achieving their potential in everyday life? If you are motivated, enthusiastic, a creative thinker and problem solver with a real desire to support people to make positive choices, decisions, and take action we would really like to hear from YOU. At Turning Point, we support people with Learning Disabilities across England.  As a Support Worker, you will make a real difference to people’s lives as you improve their daily living skills. Passionate about people, you will enjoy the scope and support to enhance your own life and career too, as you gain the experience and training you need to progress with us. You will be working in one of our Supported Living facilities in Carlisle. We endeavour to create positive family relationships offering a good circle of support. There is a strong focus on supporting individuals' lives in a person centred way which includes various activities, shopping, managing own budgets and cooking. We use a digital social care record system, to support daily recording, which will make your day-to-day tasks easier and allows you to spend more time with the People We Support Shift Patterns You will be working a range of shifts including nights and some weekends.  supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, communication difficulties and challenging behaviour supporting people with a person centred approach providing and assisting people we support with personal care supporting a full range of daily activities at home and accessing the community supporting people to be as independent as possible and have control over their lives investing time with people we support, understanding the most effective way to deliver positive support and improve person’s quality of life delivering outcome focused support to improve skills, develop person interests and increase person independence ensuring accurate recording keeping and documentation is maintain at required standards to enable effective reviewing of persons support to develop actions plan to help improve all aspects of a person’s life What skills and qualities do I need to have? You should have the right attitude and transferable experience of helping people to manage anxiety. Knowledge of learning disabilities and complex needs would be beneficial. flexible, patient and non-judgemental able to complete the physical aspects of the role such as manual handling where needed As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support. We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package. You will get 29 days’ paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 31 days. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.