Support Worker Jobs in Reading

We are recruiting for support worker jobs in Reading. You will be supporting tenants with a learning disability living in supported living services to enjoy an excellent quality of life, wellbeing and opportunities for personal development. The services will offer an empowering model of support which enables people to lead fulfilling and valued lives, maintain their tenancies, participate in their local community, develop independent living skills and achieve their personal goals and desired outcomes. As well as providing direct care and support, you will have the opportunity to act as a Key Worker supporting people to achieve their dreams and goals.

Are you looking for a varied role that is rewarding every day? Creative Support are currently looking for a caring individual to join our dedicated staff team in Reading.

Successful candidates will work with our established and friendly team of staff providing care to individuals with learning disabilities at our supported living service in Reading.

You will help service users to have a high quality of life. This will include supporting individuals based at our Reading service to participate in activities in the home and out in the community they enjoy such as swimming, a visit to the local shops, or playing the drums! You will also provide respectful personal care and practical and emotional support.

Our Support Worker role is a rewarding opportunity for people to start a career in social care. No previous experience is required as we provide full training. We just ask that candidates demonstrate a caring attitude and commitment to providing the best quality of care.

• To develop and sustain warm and trusting relationships with service users.
• To promote the self-esteem, happiness and emotional health of service users.
• To respect the person’s right to privacy and ensure that their dignity is maintained at all times.
• To encourage and support service users in expressing needs, views and concerns. To enable service users to make choices and decisions and to participate in planning and decision-making processes.
• To support service users to express their personal identity, including gender and sexuality.
• To respect and promote the human rights and entitlements of people with learning disabilities and enable them to participate in their communities as active citizens, enjoying the same rights as others. To support service users to access independent advice and advocacy when needed and to signpost/refer to external agencies as required.
• To be responsive to the needs of service users in accordance with their Personal Support Plans and to respond flexibly to changing needs.
• To provide respectful and dignified personal care in accordance with individual care plans.
• Enable and empower service users to gain independence, confidence and competence in the following areas:
• Personal care and hygiene
• Improving and maintaining health and wellbeing
• Daily living skills
• Budgeting and paying bills
• Social skills/relationships
• Using community resources and facilities
• Social, leisure and work activities
• Finding and sustaining voluntary or paid employment
• Self-organisation and coping abilities
• Personal safety

• Ability to demonstrate a warm, person centred and affirmative approach to people with learning disabilities
• Good verbal communication skills and ability to listen sensitively to others
• Ability to engage with service users, to develop and sustain warm and trusting relationships
• Ability to demonstrate basic insight and understanding into the needs of people with learning disabilities
• Written communication skills, sufficient to contribute to a record keeping system
• Ability to work constructively and co-operatively as part of a team
• Ability to work safely and responsibly without direct supervision in service user’s own homes
• Ability to demonstrate initiative, self-motivation and resourcefulness
• Ability to liaise in a professional manner with other agencies and to work in a positive way with the families and friends of service users
• Understanding of the person centred aims and principles of Creative Support and ability to put these into practice
• Ability to demonstrate respect for difference and diversity
• Ability to provide emotional and practical support to service users
• A non-judgmental, accepting approach to working with people who may be challenging and the ability to cope in a mature way with conflict, distress and challenging behaviours.
• Ability to work in a calm, patient and tolerant manner at a pace appropriate to the needs of the individual
• Ability to enable people to enjoy developmental opportunities without being exposed to unacceptable risks
• Experience of providing care, support or other services to people with a variety of needs
• Experience of supporting people with learning disabilities
• Life experience and confidence in relating to people from a wide variety of backgrounds
• Possession of NVQ or other relevant social care qualification.
• Warm, respectful and positive approach when working with service users
• Willingness to work flexible hours according to needs of agency and service users
• Willingness to attend training courses and events
• Willing to accept feedback and guidance and to be accountable to colleagues and managers
• To have a clean driving licence and access to a car

• A one-off bonus of £100 upon successful completion of the 4-month probationary period.
• Competitive pay and a pension with company contribution and 25 days annual leave plus 8 statutory bank holidays
• Company paid enhanced DBS for all staff
• Free employee support programme
• All our staff are supported 24/7 by our out-of-hours teams
• Support to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and Social Care Diploma