Job Ref: 215289975

Date: 2021-12-01 10:10:59

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MILTON KEYNES

ROMAN HOUSE

Job title: AUTISM SUPPORT WORKER

Location: Roman House is a bespoke and spacious residential service designed to support up to 6 adults (18-65 year olds) with ASC and other associated needs to develop the skills and confidence necessary to lead a life of greater independence and choice.

The service consists of 6 autism friendly ground floor flats alongside a variety of communal internal and external areas. The flat options provide variety to meet individual needs, including flats with and without kitchens and are each tailored to reduce anxiety and increase independence.

Roman House is part of a three-tiered Residential and Supported Living service in Bletchley, Milton Keynes.

Our service model provides individuals with a complete Transition Care Pathway from Residential to Supported Living services on the same site, with the aim to move onto more independent living in the community over time.

For individuals with complex needs, this care pathway creates a balance between new and familiar and decreases anxieties around change. This has proven to facilitate smooth and successful transitions.

Roman House supports individuals with the following needs:

Autism

Learning disabilities

Behaviours that may be described as challenging

Young people in transition

Salary: £9.10 PER HOUR

Role: Support Worker Permanent Contract 37.5 hours per week

Benefits: Support Worker

PERMANENT CONTRACTED ROLE

Fantastic career progression opportunities.

Recommend a friend – £200 incentive.

Access to a defined contribution pension scheme (NEST) with a contribution from the organisation

28 days holiday (Inc. Bank Holidays)

Formal Structured 12 week induction programme

Support to complete the care certificate leading to Level 2 qualification

Development pathways to further your care qualifications

All training provided at No Charge….

Access to Blue Light Card savings – The UK’s number one discount service for the emergency services, NHS, social care sector and armed forces

Access to counselling services via Health Assured App

Employee Assistant Programme for 24-7 confidential support

Long Service Awards

Precious Homes Care Awards

Flexible working opportunities

10 Reasons to work for Precious

This is the most rewarding job in the world. We work with people who are on the autism spectrum, who have mental illness, demonstrate challenging behaviours or have learning disabilities. Helping to enhance the lives of our service users is a gratifying and fulfilling career choice.

Our Learning & Development opportunities for our staff family are second to none. We have a mixture of on-line and face to face training which is overseen by a highly experienced in house training team. In a recent survey, 79% of our staff agreed that our Learning & Development was great.

We offer exceptional work environments where positive attitudes are rewarded. We encourage an active contribution from all of our staff family about the people who we care for.

Career progression. We actively encourage our staff to apply for promotions as they become available and have a clearly defined pathway linked to Learning & Development to help with this.

We offer extra benefits such as a company pension scheme, 28 days annual leave (including bank holidays) a formal structured 12 week induction programme, support to complete the care certificate leading to a Level 2 Qualification, access to free counselling services via the Health Assured App & a recommend a friend scheme where you can earn up to £200 for every person you recommend.

We are an award winning company. We have won several awards in our 26 years of being a care provider and we are nominated for more this year. These are both national and regional awards. Since 2017 we have also held our own, in-house awards night to recognise the great work done by our staff family.

We currently hold a Silver Accreditation from Investors in People in recognition of our efforts in making Precious Homes a great place to work and care. Only 15% of companies achieve this accolade.

We are working on some exciting projects to have an Investors in People Champion in each of our services to represent the voice of our staff family. The idea is for us to be a Platinum Employer at our next inspection.

We have 39 services up and down the county and we are growing. Our aim is to have an “Outstanding” rating from The Care Quality Commission in all of our services very soon.

We only employ exceptional people to our staff family and subsequently, in our opinion, we are the best at what we do!

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications required:

Always be on time

Always have a good work ethic

Always give maximum effort

Always have good body language

Always have great energy

Always have a great attitude

Always work with passion

Be coachable

Always do extra

Always be prepared

Always be caring

Apply now and join our work family. Your Career is PRECIOUS

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