Community Support Worker

Stockport, Cheshire
Creative Support

Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs. We are currently looking to add a highly motivated Community Support Worker to our dedicated community support team in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

We are looking for kind, attentive and responsive individuals to provide high quality support to people with learning disabilities and/or mental health support needs in their own homes and within the community. The ideal candidate will have a passion for promoting active involvement whilst offering respect and unconditional positive regard for the people they support.

Community Support Worker Duties:

• Work flexibly and autonomously to efficiently manage a fluid caseload.
• Promote community links, confidence and independence in daily living and have an empathetic and solution focused approach.
• Work in partnership with service users to enable people to take active control over their lives and to make progress towards personal goals
• Promote self-esteem, independence, social inclusion and a sense of personal identity separate from illness and disability
• To develop warm and trusting relationships with service users to encourage them to express their needs, views and concerns.

Although previous experience is not essential, you will demonstrate the values that are essential for a role of this nature such as warmth, compassion and unconditional positive regard. You will also demonstrate an understanding of the important elements of supporting people with learning disabilities and mental health needs as well as having analytical and problem solving skills that are essential to managing your own caseload in the community.

You will receive a full local and corporate induction and access to nationally recognised qualifications, including access to the level 3 diploma in health and social care. In addition to opportunities for personal and career development we offer good conditions of service and a supportive, hands-on management culture.

Benefits of working with Creative Support:

• Free 24/7 counselling and employee support programme,
• Support to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate,
• Competitive pay and a pension with company contribution and 28 days annual leave,
• Company paid enhanced DBS for all staff,
• All our staff are supported 24/7 by our out of hour’s teams.