Play Area jobs in Basingstoke

Location: Farnham, GU10

Job Type: Part-Time

About the Role:
Are you looking for a rewarding role with shifts that mainly fall on weekends?

We are recruiting a Support Worker to support a bright and cheerful 14-year-old male. Join a well established team in a warm, welcoming family home, with days filled with superheroes, detectives and structured fun.

Pay:

• Weekday: £17.00 per hour
• Weekend: £19.30 per hour
• Bank holiday: £34.00 per hour
• Waking Nights: Same as the weekday/weekend day rates

Benefits:

• Paid training provided
• Annual leave entitlement of 5.6 weeks (statutory), increasing after 5 years
• Warm, supportive family who work closely alongside their care team
• Opportunity to pick up additional shifts, including waking nights

Shift Patterns:

Total hours: 26 hours per week during term time, rising to 30 hours per week during school holidays with the below set shifts:

• Saturday: 10:00 to 20:00
• Sunday: 10:00 to 20:00
• Monday: 14:00–20:00 (term time) / 10:00–20:00 (school holidays)

Flexibility to cover extra shifts for staff absence, sickness and school holidays is desirable.

We welcome applications from candidates who want to work every weekend or alternating weekends

About Our Client:

Our client is a cheerful young lad with a great sense of humour, who loves joking around with his support team. He can be a little shy with new people and responds best to a calm, patient approach. He enjoys superheroes, detectives, colouring, puzzles and board games, and likes his day structured into an agenda that he helps plan. He has four limb cerebral palsy, predominantly spasticity with some dystonic elements, and uses a powered wheelchair which he loves to drive. He is fully verbal and cognitively bright. He has epilepsy, supported by a recently fitted VNS device (currently managed by parents). He lives with his mum, dad and younger sister in a fully adapted family home, along with their small, friendly dog (while a love of dogs is a bonus, the dog does not go into areas where the team support the client).

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Providing 2:1 support with full personal care, moving, handling and transfers, using hoisting equipment
• Providing 1:1 support for all other activities
• Supporting mealtimes, including cutting up food as needed
• Using the agenda approach, where activities for the day are planned together with the client at the start of a shift, giving him choice and structure while building in breaks for rest and toileting
• Supporting community access and outings alongside a parent
• Encouraging and promoting the client's independence in daily activities
• Supporting play and therapy-based activities, including fine motor skill practice
• Working alongside parents and the client's wider MDT, including therapists, to follow agreed programmes
• Monitoring for signs of seizure activity
• Keeping accurate daily notes on activities and wellbeing
• Assisting with client-related household tasks such as tidying his room and keeping equipment clean

Candidate Requirements:

Essential Criteria:

• Availability to cover set shifts
• Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle (required to travel to the family home only)
• Comfortable providing full personal care
• Physically fit and able to assist with moving and handling tasks
• Non-smoker
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively
• Comfortable working closely with family in a home environment
• A positive attitude and willingness to learn
• Experience in social care or complex care

Preferred:

• Availability to take on occasional additional shifts during school holidays or team member absence
• Experience with moving, handling and use of lifting equipment
• Experience supporting a young person with cerebral palsy
• Understanding of epilepsy

Application Process:

We invite interested candidates to apply. We are committed to inclusive and respectful recruitment. Shortlisted candidates may have an informal meeting with the client in a relaxed setting to ensure compatibility.

Note: We adhere to SAFE hiring practices, ensuring the welfare of vulnerable individuals. An enhanced criminal record check will be conducted.

Pay: £17.00-£34.00 per hour

Application question(s):

• Will you be able to provide references for all of your previous care roles? (if not why not?)
• Where do you currently live? (we cannot reveal the client's address but can provide you with the drive time )
• On being successful, are you okay with us contacting your references and sharing your details with the employer? (YES/NO)
• As part of our SAFE recruitment process, we ask all candidates to confirm the following: Have you previously been dismissed from a role in health and social care? (YES/NO)
• Are you available for the set shifts on a Saturday, Sunday and Monday every weekend or alternating weekends? (YES/NO)

Experience:

• Living in the UK: 5 years (required)
• care: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• right to work full time in the UK without sponsorship (required)
• Full UK Driving Licence with access to a vehicle (required)

Work Location: In person