Support Coordinator in South Shields

Location: South Shields
Salary: Hidden
Recruiter: Creative Support
Job Hours: Full-time

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Creative Support is a non-profit provider of personalised care and support to people with learning disabilities, mental health needs, autism spectrum conditions, and older people.

We are recruiting a Support Coordinator for our South Tyneside Learning Disability Service.

We are looking for an experienced practitioner to work with people with learning disabilities in South Tyneside.

Your role will include:

  • Providing practical and emotional support to people with learning disabilities
  • Promoting the independence of service users by working in a person-centred way
  • Collaborating with service users, families, and involved professionals to provide a consistent and coordinated service that meets the needs of service users
  • Supporting and supervising staff and deploying staff resources effectively to meet the needs of the service
  • Experience of working with people with learning disabilities is essential for this role.

    Managerial experience is desirable but not essential.

    Possession of a clean driving license and a car is desirable.

    You will be expected to work flexibly on a rota to meet the needs of the service, including evenings, weekends, sleep-ins and bank holidays.

    Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation.

    We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Silver award.

    We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures

    We offer all employees competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave.

    As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS.

    Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.

    Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation.

    We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award.

    We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – Please be aware we are currently at full capacity with our Visa Sponsor Licenses, therefore we are not accepting applicants who are seeking sponsorship.

    We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.

    We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.

    We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.


    About Creative Support


    Creative Support was established as Manchester Housing Consortium in 1990 and was registered in 1991 as an Industrial and Provident Society with charitable status. We subsequently changed our name to Creative Support to show our commitment to developing creative responses to individual needs. In our first five years we successfully enabled people who had been living in long stay hospitals to move into supported housing, greatly improving their quality of life. By the late 1990’s we were providing a wide range of housing, care and support services.

    Creative Support now provides person-centred services across England in 65 local authorities, supporting over 5,000 individuals with care and support needs. Our portfolio includes accommodation based services such as residential care, supported housing and extra care as well as a range of floating support and homecare services to service users living in their own homes. We also provide day activities and respite support so that service users, families and carers can enjoy holidays and short breaks.

    We currently provide care, support, housing and preventative services for:
    • People with a learning disability
    • People with mental health needs
    • People with dementia
    • People with autistic spectrum conditions
    • People with acquired brain injuries
    • People with sensory and physical disabilities
    • People with complex needs, including behaviour which can challenge services
    • Young people with care and support needs
    • Older people with care and support needs
    • People who are homeless or in housing need
    • People who have a history of problematic drug or alcohol use
    • People who have a history of offending or are at risk of offending

    The needs of our service users are diverse and we support people from all ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds.

    Over 20% of our service users are from BAME groups and this is reflected in the diversity of our staff and volunteers.

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