Increased demand creates new jobs at Diverse Abilities

Diverse Abilities, Dorset’s disability charity, is looking for new youth support workers and night support workers due to an increased demand for its respite services across the county.

Applicants will be working at Lily’s Place, a respite home in Poole for children with physical and learning disabilities, Lawford Lodge, based in Hamworthy to provide respite care for teenagers and young adults moving to the adult social care system, and Shapes, providing domiciliary care in the home across the Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole conurbation.

Claire Stacey, Children’s Team manager, commented: “We’re really pleased to be able to increase our team across Children’s services as it’s such a rewarding place to work. Nothing compares to bringing smiles to the faces of all the children, young people and adults we support.”

Full and part time roles are available across the Children’s Team and all necessary training is paid for, so no previous experience is necessary. Staff at Diverse Abilities also benefit from a cycle to work scheme and access to hundreds of high street, restaurant, and travel discounts through its employee benefits programme.

Claire continued: “As we know, the pandemic has been tough on everyone, and being able to provide parents with respite time is invaluable. They get a chance to either take some time for themselves, to spend more time with their other children, or sleep without the worry or concern of providing the additional care their child or teenager with disabilities needs.”

The team has seen an increased request for its services since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 and it has continued to rise with the easing of lockdown.

Visit diverseabilities.org.uk/careers for further details on the roles currently available and to make an application.