Female Support Worker

Affinity Trust provides support for people with learning disabilities, those who experience Autism and people with complex behaviours. As a Support Worker your role is to support people to live independently and help them to achieve their goals. This includes shopping, cooking, managing their own homes, managing finances and enabling people to be safe. You will support people to find and experience activities enabling them to have a sense of worth and a meaningful life.
We support 2 ladies in the Audenshaw area of Tameside.They  enjoy meals out,shopping,social clubs,drives out in the car. We are looking for committed people who are dedicated to supporting these ladies to achieve their wishes and goals in life,who have good communication skills,are patient and can support these ladies with their routines  
To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate that you are a good listener who is able to set and maintain clear boundaries. You will need to be able to drive and be able to motivate and be consistent in the way you provide support. This role involves personal care.  An understanding of autism and complex behaviours would be an advantage. Support work offers you a chance to make a genuine difference to people's lives and no day will be the same!
All our Support Workers receive a very detailed induction and training and complete shadow shifts before working with the people we support. New staff who have not previously worked in care are supported through the nationally recognised Care certificate Your training is specifically tailored to enable you to support the people you work with. When attending training courses you are paid your normal hourly rate of pay.

Shift patterns are very person centred in this service and will include early/late shifts, weekends, bank holidays and sleep ins. Rota's are dependent on your contracted hours.
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