Job Description

Support Worker Part Time

Location: Waterlooville

Hourly Rates: 15,874 pa for 25 hours per week plus 625 pa R&R allowance (25,397 / 1000 R&R allowance FTE)

The salary may further go up to incorporate shift enhancements for sleep-in shifts and waking nights as part of a typical rota.

Contract Type: Part Time - 25 hours per week, Permanent, sleep in's, every other weekend

To start as soon as possible

This role is open to any applicant without any working restrictions due to the nature of shift patterns.

Essential Criteria

Be prepared to travel to work in the Waterlooville area Able to work shifts including evenings, weekends and bank holidays Experience of supporting people with a variety of needs Promote and encourage people's independence Good communication skills: verbal, non-verbal, and written Confident to lone work No working visa restrictions

The Role

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity to work alongside people with disabilities in various locations throughout Waterlooville. As a Support Worker you will be assisting the people we work with to live the life they want. You will provide safe, person centred support to promote independent living skills and help make a clients' hopes and wishes a reality. Our Support Workers offer clients flexible support, as well as helping with budgeting support, cooking and cleaning, and maintaining a home.


Some of our clients also require full personal care which can include toilet support, bathing, the use of hoists and routine bed turning so experience of this would be beneficial but not essential.

About You

You need to be professional and proactive in all that you do, with a motivational, encouraging and supportive approach with clients and colleagues alike. A good sense of humour and fun will help to make you a successful Support Worker in this service. Relevant knowledge and skills relating to individuals with a learning disability would assist you in this role, but if you are the right person for the job we will support you to gain the experience you need. We also want people who will share their successes and promote this excellent service wherever they go.


YOU has a strong value base, striving to be person-centred, innovative, trustworthy, can-do and excellent at all times, so it is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.



We are a disability confident employer.



YOU is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives.

Our Benefits

If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing. Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday. Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options. Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave. Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes and real opportunities to develop in your profession. Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme. Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites, as well as discounted bus travel on the First bus network. Online 24/7 access to your personal rota.


We are also recruiting to our bank of Sessional Support Workers called Premier Crew. If this is something that interests you, please contact us.

The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check.

Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to adults and/or children it is an offence to apply for the role if you have been barred from engaging in such regulated activity.

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