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Casual Support Worker

  • Plymouth, Devon
  • Contract
  • Up to £12.60 per hour
  • Carer for Mike
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Job Overview

Mike has a great sense of humour and enjoys various hobbies such as gardening, treasure hunting, listening to music, PC games, and watching a variety of films and 80's cartoons. Mike is autistic with a learning disability and needs patient, positive and proactive people supporting him so that he lives a fulfilled life, continuing with his hobbies and building up his confidence with trying new things. Mike is wanting a driver in the team who wouldn't mind using their own car, so that he can venture to places not accessible by public transport.

Essential for this role: Driver who is willing to use own car

Date Applications Close: 06/01/2026

Contract: Casual/zero hours

Mike needs support with budgeting, pet care, cooking, maintaining his home, building relationships, and looking after his health and wellbeing. The team have found creative and unique ways of helping his understanding such as creating a bespoke newspaper that has helped Mike develop, think more about his health, and try new things.

We are looking for the right person to join the team and support Mike to live a fulfilled life. The team are working towards becoming self-directed so there is an element of leadership required within this role and a desire to grow. Shifts are typically 9am-9pm and the rota is done in advance. We need someone who can be flexible with shifts and help on weekends.

Ideally you will:

  • Have a good sense of humour
  • Be highly self-motivated
  • Be willing to learn and develop within your role
  • Have a passion for the work we do
  • Be a great communicator for Mike
  • Be forward thinking, willing to try new ideas and approaches
  • Have similar interests or be sympathetic to Mikes
  • Have good computer skills

Benefits:

  • We reward our staff with competitive salaries
  • We offer an Award Winning Pension Scheme
  • We have a company sick pay scheme
  • Excellent annual leave allowance, including top up pay
  • Critical Illness cover, reassurance when you need it the most
  • Life Insurance, reassurance for your family when they need it the most
  • A really good mandatory induction
  • Ongoing high quality training
  • Career development opportunities
  • A real chance to make a difference to someone's life

"Sponsorship is currently not available"

We are committed to recruiting candidates who share our commitment to safeguarding, and therefore we apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that the people selected are right for the job, and that all candidates are appropriately screened prior to appointment, including obtaining references and DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) clearance. A DBS check will be requested in the event of the individual being offered a position with Beyond Limits, the cost of which will be to the employee, however, this will be returned after successful completion of probation period (6 months).