Support Worker

Contract type: Permanent Full Time, Part time or Bank contracts available.
Full time contract: (37.5 hours) 7:30am- 15:00pm or 14.30pm – 22:00pm - to include some weekends
Hourly rate from £12.27 to £13.02 depending on qualifications.
We also offer a Level 3 Health & Social Care qualification - *FREE*
As a key part of the dedicated team we allocate to every young person, you’ll have a vital role in helping young people learn and develop skills for life. You don’t need any special qualifications for this role, but you do need to share our passion to help young people be the very best they can be.
In return, our new and improved training programmes will help you develop your professional skills and you will also learn from some of the most dedicated and inspirational people in our profession and just like our young people, you will be learning all the time through our on-going tailored mentoring and coaching.
About Lufton College:
Lufton College has 2 sites across 40 acres of beautiful countryside. We support young people and adults, between the age of 16 – 25, that have autism with additional learning needs and associated complex behaviours across day, 38 and 52 week placements. Our college aims to enrich and support students as they enter this important part of adulthood. Through our college cats and mini farm, we use animal therapy to support our young people.
About the role:
You will work in an exquisite environment, supporting young people with community activities like horse riding, swimming, cinema, pantomimes, beach visits which enrich the young people’s wellbeing and community access. You will also support the young people with placement assistance and enrichment to ensure they have a wealth of opportunities for the future. Personal care will also be required.
You will holistically across Care, Education and Therapeutic services supporting each other’s practice. This is a unique opportunity to work collaboratively with trained, qualified professionals from across our multidisciplinary team and to join an expanding, successful educational organisation.
The young people we educate and care for, come to us with a huge variety of needs and abilities. Our challenge is to help them build the hope, confidence, knowledge and skills to unlock their potential.
From innovative educational experiences to national curriculum programmes, supported by passionate teams of specialists and key workers, we actively enable each young person to achieve their personal best, all in an environment that best suits them.
We are looking for Support Workers that are:
* Passionate about improving the lives of others
* A positive and consistent role model to others
* Innovative, engaging enthusiastic and inspirational
* A calm and listening person with a mature, supportive approach
* An excellent communicator and team player
* Seeking career development and training.
If you want to learn from and work with a highly specialist, incredibly proud and integrated team that unlocks the potential of young people, then please talk to us.
The Cambian Group
We are one of the largest providers of specialist education and behavioural health services for children and adults in the UK. We provide a broad range of services across the UK including specialist education schools and colleges for residential and day students, residential care homes and a therapeutic fostering service.
We pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern