Support Worker - Transition services

£17,100 - £17,930

Sandwich, Kent

Connect2staff Healthcare are thrilled to be working with a fantastic company that provides residential, transition services and supported living services for adults and school leavers. This forward thinking care provider prides itself on their professional and committed healthcare team and in return, invests in their staff with focused, intensive training and career progression opportunities.

We are looking for Support Workers to work within a transition service based in Sandwich, Kent.

The people they support range between 18 - 25 years of age with mild to severe Learning Difficulties, who use a wide range of communication techniques to express their needs and desires, some of the individuals they support display behaviours that some people consider to be challenging.

This fantastic company provide a service to enable and empower individuals to grow and develop using a person centred active support approach so they can have more control, improve confidence and increased independence and an active role in their life.

Ideally, the right candidate would have experience in a similar environment and have worked previously with service users with learning difficulties and some challenging behaviour. This however is not essential and the client will provided focused training before you start.

Requirements of role:

* Experience of working within care environment.
* Experience of working with service users learning difficulties and challenging behaviour.
* You will be committed to providing the best level of care and supporting the services residents with privacy, dignity and respect.
* Excellent communication skills and able to work effectively in a team and as a lone worker
* Ability to work well under pressure

Due to the location of the service, it would be beneficial to have a full driving licence and access to a vehicle.

Day & Night shifts are available, you will be required to work on a rota, and this may include some weekend work.

About Connect2Staff
Connect2Staff is wholly owned by Kent County Council which means we can offer you unrivalled access to work in KCC homes, we are financially stable to ensure we pay you on time and we are of course an ethical business that invests in our workforce.



Employment is subject to satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and suitable references

Commercial Services Kent/Trading Ltd is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business and positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.