Creative Support are looking for warm, motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join our service in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire as a Relief Support Worker.

At our Wellingborough services you will provide excellent care and support for 4 service users with learning disabilities and mental health needs. To be a Support Worker, you will have a passion for promoting active involvement and communication to ensure that ‘every day is a good day’. You will give respect and unconditional positive regard for the people you support. No two days will be the same as our residents love to engage in a wide range of activities such as arts and crafts, gardening and cooking. Our residents even say their favourite dish is a roast dinner!

Your role will include:

• Providing respectful personal care to individuals, medication administration and help with domestic tasks such as preparing food and cleaning,
• Engaging with service users and build trusting therapeutic relationships, working within to encourage wellbeing and positive coping skills,
• Work flexibly according to the needs of the service, including daytimes, evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

Previous experience within a care role is essential for this relief based role. Successful applicants must attend mandatory induction training courses to begin when starting the role.

We have a range of flexible hours to suit you and your family. As a Creative Support Bank Staff member you will also have access to our free app which allows you to pick up shifts in any area of the country, provides information on the service and shifts as well as directions.

Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Silver award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures.

We expect all applicants to Creative Support to have had at least their first Covid 19 vaccination prior to starting employment with us and to be committed to having the second vaccination within a 3 month period.