Day Opportunities Support Worker (Adults)

Job Details:

Job Reference: HCC619569
Salary Range: £24,405 - £25,430 pro-rata, per annum (actual salary £14,345 - £14,947 per annum)
Work Location: Havant Keystone Day Services, Havant
Hours per Week: 21.75
Contract Type: Temporary (12 months)
Closing Date: 26 January 2025

The Role:

As a Day Opportunities Support Worker, you'll support young adults with learning disabilities who have varying needs, abilities and interests, helping them engage in personalised, fun activities and hobbies, that build social networks and promote inclusion. Your compassion, empathy and patience, combined with your commitment to promoting independence, will help service users learn, grow in confidence, and enjoy a variety of interesting activities.

What you’ll do:

• Engage in fulfilling activities: Support service users to take part in fun activities tailored to their individual physical, mental, social and emotional needs, such as swimming, bowling, archery, cinema trips, and sharing their hobbies.
• Assist with daily living activities: Support service users with eating, drinking, mobility, personal care, and medication, ensuring everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
• Provide dedicated support: Support wheelchair users with moving and positioning activities, as well as supporting service users who present challenging behaviours through positive behaviour support, following induction and training.
• Promote community involvement: Support service users in their involvement in local community projects, helping them to develop important social networks.
• Build relationships: Establish positive connections with service users, celebrating their achievements and milestones.

What we’re looking for:

You may already have experience of providing care, but it’s not essential - we provide all the training you need to be a great Day Opportunities Support Worker. What’s more important to us is that you have the right values, skills and motivations to enable people to lead full and active lives as independently as possible.

• Passion and dedication: A genuine desire to help others and make a positive and lasting difference to their lives.
• Empathy and compassion: Understand and share the feelings of others to build trust and provide emotional support.
• Respect and patience: Treat service users with dignity and adapt to their individual needs calmly, even in challenging situations.
• Adaptability: Responsive, flexible and able to work without direct supervision. Resilient under pressure and can adapt positively to changing situations and demands.
• Communication skills: Clear and effective communication and the ability to interact with service users with a diverse range of complex communication and sensory support needs.
• Team player: Enjoy working closely with others to provide the best support possible.

Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the Day Opportunities Support Worker role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about.  Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.

Why join us?

• Rewarding work: Make a real difference in the lives of our service users, knowing that you can create a lasting impact while building a great career.
• Career growth and development: We invest in your future. With ongoing development opportunities, you’ll have the chance to enhance your skills and your career.
• Supportive environment: Work in a friendly and collaborative team who feel proud of the work they do to support people in our community.
• Work life balance: For this role there is no requirement to work evenings, weekends, or bank holidays.
• Competitive benefits package: Find more information here.

Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK before applying.

Applicants can expect to hear from us within two weeks of the advertised closing date.

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Values Based Recruitment

We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application.  For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.

Additional Information:

Find out more about Working with us in Adults’ Health and Care, including our benefits and the recruitment process. 

Vetting Requirements:

This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check.

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:

For general enquiries, please contact care.careers@hants.gov.uk 

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Stuart Vail Day Opportunities Manager on stuart.vail@hants.gov.uk, or Hayley Skinner Deputy Manager on hayley.skinner@hants.gov.uk