Southwest Vacancies / Plymouth

Support Workers for Mike
Mike loves ThunderCats. Lion-O is special to Mike and so are his group. You don’t need to dress or roar like the ThunderCats but you do need to share their quality of being a good team player.
Location: Plymouth
Position/s: Support Workers
Salary: 10.15ph
Hours: 24 per week and casual available
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 26th August 2022
Ref Code: CB/NC
Essential for this job
You need to be a driver with access to your own car.
Benefits
- We reward our staff with competitive salaries
- We offer an Award Winning Pension Scheme
- We have a company sick pay scheme
- Excellent annual leave allowance, including top up pay
- A really good 5 day induction
- Ongoing high quality training
- Career development opportunities
- A real chance to make a difference to someone’s life
- Become part of a ground breaking organisation
- Become a valued member of our staff
More about...
Mike has a silly sense of humour and enjoys laughing and chatting with his team. Mike’s hobbies include playing computer games, treasure hunting, metal detecting, and watching 80’s cartoons. Mike also enjoys spending time in his garden growing a variety of plants. He recently received a new greenhouse, so he has been helping the team find their green fingers. Who knows, Mike may become the new Alan Titchmarsh. Mike also has 2 cats and some fish. Mike is autistic with a learning disability and needs support in understanding the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ which can be challenging, but the team are there to find creative and unique ways of helping his understanding such as creating a bespoke newspaper that has helped Mike develop and try new things. The 3 P’s are essential to build a good relationship with Mike, you need to be patient, positive, and proactive, If he feels you are bossy or disinterested, a good relationship will be difficult to maintain. An element of leadership is required within this role due to lone working. We are looking for those who are keen to learn and develop within their role. Mike really is a great person to support, just look at his hobbies! Wouldn’t you like to go treasure hunting or spend sunny afternoons in the garden.
Ideally you will:
- Have a good and sometimes silly sense of humour
- Be highly self-motivated
- Be willing to learn and develop within your role
- Have a passion for the work we do
- Be a great communicator for Mike
- Be forward thinking
- Have similar interests to Mike
- Have good computer skills
A DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check will be requested in the event of the individual being offered a position with Beyond Limits, the cost of which will be to the employee, however, this will be returned after successful completion of probation period (6 months).
More information
For an informal conversation about this position or to contact us by email please see contact details at the bottom of this page.
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