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Mencap is looking for dedicated Support Workers to join our fantastic team in Dunstable.

As a Support Worker, you’ll have the chance to make a real and lasting difference in the lives of people with learning disabilities. You’ll work with a diverse group of individuals, each with their own unique strengths, personalities, and support needs.

From supporting with everyday activities to offering emotional encouragement and companionship, your role will be varied, rewarding, and truly meaningful.

Support Worker

Company: Mencap

Salary: £24,785 to £24,785 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Dunstable, LU6

Job type: Permanent

What we’re looking for

• A genuine passion for supporting others
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build positive, meaningful relationships
• Flexibility to work a variety of shifts, including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays
• A positive, empathetic, and person-centred approach
• Full-time: 37.5 hours per week

Our services provide 24-hour care, and rotas are prepared at least 4 weeks in advance, giving you the flexibility to plan your personal and social life.

Shift patterns

• Day shifts: Between 07:00 – 22:00
• Sleep-ins: 22:00 – 07:00
• Sleep-in payment: Enhanced flat-rate payment of £64.20 per sleep-in

Our commitment to inclusion

Mencap is an equitable, diverse and inclusive organisation. We particularly welcome and encourage applications from disabled candidates and individuals from Black and Asian communities, as these groups are currently under-represented within our workforce.

*All roles are subject to an enhanced DBS check and suitable references.

Mencap holds a Home Office sponsorship licence; however, due to current restrictions on our allocation of Certificates of Sponsorship, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. Applicants must therefore have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship.

Benefits

Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated.

Our benefits package offers 24 days of paid holiday (excluding bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest-free loans, and many more exciting offerings.

For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document and the link with all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team!

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Mencap

Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives.

We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in.

At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues.

Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.

• Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation.
• Every day we grow and learn. It’s okay to make mistakes, but we learn from them and make changes
• Everywhere, people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves.

We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long- term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.

We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap, and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme