Relief Support Worker

Hours - You can choose the hours that you work, to fit in with your lifestyle

Doing the shopping, to supporting someone manage their personal finances. Join us and help us change lives.

As an Hft Casual Relief Worker, you'll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible.

Hft is a national charity that's been supporting people with learning disabilities since 1962. We put the people we support at the centre of everything we do and use our experience to work in partnership with them to provide personalised services to more than 2500 people.

There's no such thing as a "typical day" for one of our Casual Relief Support Workers. You could be supporting someone with personal care in the morning, going shopping or to a local cafe in the afternoon.

Sometimes it's challenging, but it's always rewarding. You'll go to work knowing that you're making a positive difference to someone's life. You'll be working in a team of skilled, dedicated colleagues committed to doing the same and they will support you along the way.

Relief posts are completely flexible; you choose the hours you want to work, covering staff holidays and absence.

About the role:
 As an Hft Casual Relief Worker you'll be supporting adults with learning disabilities within your community. In these roles, everything you do will enable people to have choices about their own lives, creating flexible services that meet people's needs and always looking for the best way of doing things. Covering leave, training and sickness within our supported living services, with hours that fit in with life's other commitments; this is an ideal way of discovering if this is the career for you.

About you:
 You don't need experience of support work or any special qualifications for this job; what matters most is your positive attitude to life and your desire to support people to live their own life with as much independence, choice, dignity and control as possible.

What Hft can offer you:
 It's helpful if you already have experience of dementia, autism and learning disabilities - but this is by no means essential as Hft will give you a comprehensive induction, full training and support. With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in our teams to ensure that they have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people with the most complex needs to live the best life possible.

•To find out more about this role please call Vanessa on 01453 820940

•Of if you'd like to find out whether this opportunity is for you
 e-mail your CV to Vanessa and we'll be in contact for an informal chat.

•To apply go to www.hft.org.uk, click on the job page and complete our application form

Join us and help us change lives.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks after the closing date your application has not been successful on this occasion.
 Hft's usual terms and conditions apply.
 Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do.
 Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment.