Driver (Support Worker)

Sheffield Day Centre - 35 hours per week

We offer a competitive rate of £11.44ph plus great benefits!

We are looking for people to join our friendly and welcoming team in Sheffield Day Centre, where you will have the opportunity to enhance people’s lives. We deliver creative, dynamic and person centred services providing a range of individualised support to people in a Day Centre.

Your role would be to collect and return the people we support from day service to home and on a variety of community activities and thus supporting service users to engage in meaningful activities. Your day to day role would be to collect service user from where they are living and transport them to the day centre and take them home from the service, drive service users and support staff to community activities, help service users with personal care and to perform any other reasonable duties as requested by service manager.

Knowledge / Experience :

Hold a current, clean and valid driving licence D1 unrestricted or a PSV licence, D1 restricted (car licence obtained prior to 01/01/1997) considered. To have been driving at least 5 years                                                           Capability to maintain accurate vehicle and user records Competent to undertake daily and weekly vehicle checks and carry out basic maintenance

We are also expecting some personal qualities of you such as positive attitude to the development of people with learning disability, ability to take responsibility, good communication skills, a commitment to people with learning disabilities, Reliability – Honesty – Trustworthy and ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of individuals

You’ll have a really rewarding role working with a great team of people and the chance to make a real difference to other people’s lives.  We will support you along your career path to learn, develop and grow.

Working hours are typically between 8am and 4.30pm in weekdays. Infrequent evenings and weekends may be required for specific events we put on.

Previous experience is desirable for this position although full training will be provided

An enhanced adult DBS application will be required for successful applicants.

Benefits and Rewards

A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff) Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first rate job An employer contributory pension scheme

In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:

Health Cash Plan (for full/part time contracted hours) £10,000 Life cover A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information) A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services Cycle to Work Scheme A financial wellbeing scheme Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply) Recognition Initiatives

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:

Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence

If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for:

Honest - Good Communicator - Strong Values – Flexible - Passionate - Self Motivated - Reliable - Caring - Inclusive

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know