Community Support Worker

Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. As a Community Support Worker, you will be providing personal care to the people we support and ensuring we meet the high standards we believe in. You will be supporting our service users to carry out a range of activities such as visits to the local community and attending appointments amongst many other activities.

Responsibilities

Providing personal care to the people we support and ensuring we meet the high standards we believe in; Supporting service users to carry out a range of activities such as visits to the local community and attending appointments amongst many other activities

Requirements

Have genuine empathy for our residents, with the positivity, patience, and resilience to support them through the difficult times of their rehabilitation; Enjoy teamwork and take pride in getting a job done well alongside your colleagues; Have excellent face to face communication skills and a good standard of literacy; Have good time management skills and the ability to prioritise your own workload; Subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks

Nice to have

Driver preferred

Benefits

Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP); Excellent training and support; Company Pension; Group Life Assurance; Eye Voucher Scheme; Long Service and Staff Awards; Free Parking; Employee wellbeing and support; Career development opportunities