Learning Disability Worker - 30 hours per week

Job Posted: 27 June 2025

• Contract Term: Permanent
• Location: Ryde, Isle of Wight
• Contract Type: Part time
• Salary: £19,656 pa pro rata
• Industries: Health & Social Care

Learning Disability Worker

£19,656 pa pro rata 30 hours per week

Ryde, Isle Of Wight

The role

Learning Disability Worker

We are looking for someone with enthusiasm for providing quality services to adults with learning disabilities to join our team at our registered care home in Ryde, Isle of Wight.

This is a full time, permanent role working on a rota basis (including weekends and sleep-ins).

Please note this is a Part Time role - 30 hours per week.

As a Learning Disability Worker, you’ll have a hands-on approach to caring for our residents, working as part of a team to support people to maintain independence and have better opportunities to get involved within the local community. This is a truly rewarding role where you’ll play many parts within our residents’ lives. 

What you'll have:

• Ability to listen and communicate effectively
• Empathy, compassion and patience
• Good written communication and numeracy skills
• Basic IT skills
• Able to work both as part of a team and also unsupervised

Benefits in working with us:

• A competitive hourly rate
• Generous holiday entitlement
• A great pension scheme
• Full training provided at no additional cost
• Employee referral scheme – get rewarded for referring your friends!
• Eligible for Blue Light discounts!

Closing date: 24th July at 23:59pm

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high volume of applications

Applying for roles with us

We appreciate the effort and authenticity that candidates bring to our recruitment process. To ensure fairness and a true reflection of each applicant’s qualifications, we kindly request that all submissions be personally written and not generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Applications that are identified as AI-generated may not be considered. Thank you for understanding and for sharing your unique experiences with us.

About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Healthcare cash plan
• Eyecare & dental
• Birthday leave
• Retailers discounts
• Cycle to work
• Buy & sell annual leave
• Season ticket loan
• In-house academy & career development
• Flexible working

Inclusion and Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual. We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.