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 our 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 service users love to engage in a wide range of activities such as arts and crafts, gardening and cooking.

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. You will be paid on a weekly basis.

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.

We are a passionate, inclusive and anti-racist organisation. We embrace diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. As a Disability Confident Employer we welcome applications from people with a disability, and as a proud Stonewall Diversity Champion we actively encourage applications from the LGBT+ community.

We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.

We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK.

Application Instructions:

In order to apply, please read the job description and then complete the online application form using the links above.

You can also download a copy of our application form using the links above. Completed Application Forms must be submitted to our Head Office address (below) or emailed to recruitment@creativesupport.co.uk to be considered for the vacancy. If you have not received a response to your application within 10 working days of the closing date please accept this as notification of an unsuccessful application. Unsuccessful applicants must wait 6 months before reapplying.

If you require any advice on completing your application form, please call us on 0161 236 0829.

Recruitment Department, Creative Support Ltd, Wellington House, 131 Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK1 3TS