Job Description
Full time Support Worker (37.5 hours per week)
Full UK Driving Licence is essential as you will be required to drive Mobility Vehicles (Automatic)
Are you looking for an opportunity to make a real difference in someone's life everyday? Are you looking for genuine job satisfaction?
Then join Dimensions as a Support Worker enabling people with Learning Disabilities, to live to live their best lives.
Every day will be busy and rewarding, as you encourage and empower 3 females and 5 males to maintain their independence, develop new skills and embrace new opportunities. The people you will be supporting live busy lives and all of them want to be out and about and making the most of each day.
There are many activities you will be getting involved in, so if you are looking for a bit of variety in your work life then this might just be the place for you. You could be playing on the playstation one day, going for a walk the next, or even going to for a day trip out to the beach. You will also have the opportunity to flex your creative muscles when finding and planning new and exciting interests for the ladies and gentlemen to get stuck in to.
Shift patterns: between 7.30 – 9.30 – no sleeps
Applications will be shortlisted on receipt and interviews will be held until the posts are filled.
Benefits for Support Workers working with Discovery include:
- A competitive payrate with uplift for overtime you chose to work
- Flexible shift patterns to suit your needs
- 30 days paid Annual Leave (including public holidays – pro rata)
- Opportunities for career progression
- Supported ‘Learn to Drive’ scheme (up to 30 driving lessons, 1 theory/practical test - all paid for by us)
- High Street Discounts – Retail and Entertainment (supermarkets, hospitality, pubs, cinema etc.)
- Life Assurance and Company Pension
- Industry leading training
- Enhanced DBS paid for by us
- We offer a salary advance scheme where you can access up to 50% of the money you've earned before payday
Dimensions is a national social care company and we are proud to have been recognised as one of the UK’s best workplaces in the ‘super large’ category by the Great Place to Work Institute three years in a row.
As one of the country’s largest not-for-profits supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, behaviours of distress, and complex needs, we are driven by our values. People with learning disabilities and their families are at the heart of everything we do and we want every person we support to have a great life, with excellent outcomes.
Dimensions has hundreds of services across England and Wales and have over 5000 colleagues supporting more than 2,500 people.
Our head office is based in Theale (Reading), however since the pandemic all business support staff now work from home, with access to work in shared workspaces.
We are always working to improve standards – our own and across the sector. Dimensions was one of the pioneers of personalised support, showing how it works in practice, and enabling thousands of people to have greater choice and control. We continue to be innovative in our approach, and our Strategy for 2025 outlines our commitment to becoming a leader in our sector.