Support Assistant - Learning Disability Day Services
We are looking for a Support Assistant to join our Day Service dedicated to supporting adults with profound multiple learning disabilities, offering hands-on care and engagement through various activities conducted predominately in our Tilehurst-based Centre (moving to Hexham Road, Reading late 2026) and within the community.
We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity and inclusion is the key to our success. Reading Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities.
About the Role
Full-time - 37 hours per week – 8.45am – 4.15pm (Monday - Thursday) & 8.45am - 3.45pm (Friday) – No weekend work required.
Sponsorship is not available for this role.
Your role will be assisting in the delivery of a user led service, where service users are encouraged and supported to develop their independence, build positive relationships and be empowered to make informed choices. As well as experience a fulfilling Day Service.
We are looking for enthusiastic and reliable people with practise working in a care setting, to join our existing experienced and skilled staff team.
We are seeking individual with experience in a care setting to join our staff team. Our focus involves providing support to adults with complex learning disabilities in group settings, maintaining ratios of 1:1, 1:2, and 1:4.
The successful candidate will work as part of a team to provide activities, a safe environment as well as follow and contribute to care and activity plans.
Skills Required:
- Qualification in Care/NVQ2/Level 2 Diploma in Care and Promoting Independence or willingness to undertake this.
- Capability to connect with service users, addressing their needs with a sense of understanding, patience, respect, and dignity
- Ability to follow deliver Person Centred Support, Care plans, Risk assessment and highlight discrepancies.
- Ability to perform personal care duties with dignity and respect, including manual handling if necessary
- Effective teamwork with the capacity to work independently and be self-motivated
- Basic IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Packages such as Word and Outlook and to use online training
You’ll be part of a team that relies on each individual to play their part to the best of their ability. As well as the colleagues that you work closely with every day, you’ll also be part of Team Reading, playing your personal part in making Reading a successful and vibrant place.
Our vision is to ensure that Reading realises its potential as a great place to live, work and play, and that everyone shares the benefits of this success. Our values and behaviours guide how we will achieve this:
Work Together as one team - work collaboratively, with each other and with our partners, and demonstrate the Team Reading values in everything we do
Drive Efficiency - show initiative, be adaptable to change and put forward ideas to help improve delivery and efficiency. Take responsibility for our own learning and development and for reaching our potential
Be Ambitious - be demanding of our own performance – striving to be even better – and be prepared to engage with and challenge leaders in a constructive and positive way
Make a Difference to Reading - maintain the highest levels of customer service and be flexible and willing to provide the services needed at the time they are needed.
Our offer
We offer a supportive environment to grow and develop your career with the opportunity to put your ideas across. Innovation and ambition is strongly encouraged, and you’ll get a great feel for that working in our friendly and collaborative environment.
A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:
- Generous holiday entitlement - 25 days holiday each year plus bank holidays - rising to 33 days after 10 years' service, with the option to buy additional leave
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Life Assurance - three times your annual salary (for members of the LGPS)
- Kennet Day nursery (based at the Civic Offices) rated outstanding by Ofsted,
- Season Ticket Loan - a loan to help with the cost of your rail or bus journey, to and from work
- Opportunities for further development and training available
- We pay for your DBS application
For an informal discussion about the Community Inclusion Worker position please contact Ronnie Chapman, Team Manager - email veronica.chapman@reading.gov.uk or Anna Vockins, Senior Support Worker email anna.vockins@reading.gov.uk
Closing date: Sunday 2nd August 2026
Interview date: To be confirmed
Interview setup: In person at Strathy Close, Tilehurst, Reading, RG30 2PP
Visit: www.moretoreading.co.uk to find out more about Reading’s Community & Adult Social Care Services. It’s a chance to hear from the people who already work here and why they have chosen Reading as their professional destination.
Salary range
- £25,949 - £28,142 per year