Learning Support Worker

Is your career as rewarding as it could be? Are you frustrated with every day being utterly predictable?

If this is the case, have you ever considered a new challenge? We are looking for creative and positive support workers to work across our services in Chesterfield and surrounding areas, where we support over a hundred people.

This will be a very varied role working within one of three Learning Centres and, also, our Community Outreach Service, where you will be supporting people on a one to one basis in the community.

Supporting the people that draw on our support to connect with the local community is key to MacIntyre's DNA.

MacIntyre's Everyone Everywhere' approach is about seeing ourselves, our organisation and the people we support as contributors to our local neighbourhoods.

We believe that great support workers know what people like and need and they work hard to enable them to spend their time doing things they enjoy.

This could be supporting someone to work as a volunteer, participating in a community litter pick or community garden project.

Your ability to drive unlocks the opportunities for people to do the things they want to do. So you must be a driver with a manual licence.

We have so many ideas to develop, so if you think you could be part of something ambitious, come and give us a hand and help people to live a gloriously ordinary life'., At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.

But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams.

These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge.

Experience isn't always necessary. If you have the right attitude, good customer service skills, share our values and are willing to learn, you're likely to be a great fit.

We are looking for people who celebrate differences, and we strive to make all our staff feel included, valued and respected.

You must be a driver with a manual licence, as you will be driving service vehicles.

MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and / or autism.

We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone's unique gifts, talents and contributions., MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.

MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support.

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We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes :

• Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays


• Workplace Pension scheme MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees


• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme


• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing


• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as : optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)


• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)


• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents


• MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff


• MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry / PC World, Costa and many more


• Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.


• Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)