Create and Communicate Support Worker - #195336

Location: Bognor Regis
Hours: 11 hours per week, Thursday and Friday 9.30am - 15.30pm
Salary: £7,270.12 per annum

Make every day meaningful — for someone else and for you.

This role requires someone with a positive, flexible, and creative attitude to support adults with learning disabilities and autism at our Create & Communicate Project in Bognor Regis, a community outreach section of the Aldingbourne Trust.

You will support people to engage with tasks and activities; developing peoples’ abilities and confidence in order to positively impact their daily life, ambitions, well-being and self-esteem. You will support communication, expression, social engagement, and experimentation that leads to new ideas, new achievements and new goals, thereby promoting development, independence and documenting progression.

What you’ll be doing

Every day brings something different. You might:

• Facilitate craft, cooking and community sessions, supporting people to achieve tasks and develop life and social skills.
• Support people individually and in groups to provide opportunities, support and teaching to aspire to their full potential by engaging in drama skills, cookery activities, art and craft and their local community.
• Support people to become as independent as possible. Demonstrating genuine respect for people with learning disabilities, keeping people, places and items safe, using risks as opportunities

What we’re looking for

• Ability to support, motivate and engage people in creative tasks
• Proactive, self-motivated and a desire for self-development
• IT/Administration/Reporting experience
• Makaton, British Sign Language or communication passports/exchange systems would be an advantage
• Digital photography skills to photograph artwork with people would be an advantage

What we offer

• 25 days’ annual leave (pro rata for part-time hours)
• Life Assurance – 2 x annual salary
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Blue Light Card (funded)
• Bike scheme, eye care vouchers & discounted gym membership
• Staff discounts across our Café, Shop, Horticulture and more
• £200 refer-a-friend bonus