Please write below why do you want the job.Please use this space to tell us how you match With the things we are looking for (person specification)

I have worked in a group home for people with learning difficulties for 3 years now. Having worked in a team my confidence has grown and I am ready to work in the community now.

Where I work now not all the people get on all the time,so I have learnt to listen to everybody and explain topeople why they can’t have things their own way all the time. I have had training in communication, I can use Makaton.

I think I am firm but fair. For example one of our men likes to stay up late and then he is tired an irritable the next day. I have agreed with him that is he stays up late he will not go out the next day.

In my spare time I like to go ice skating and to the cinema to see horror films mainly.

I am a keyworker for 6 of the 12 people with learning difficulties who live in the house. We get on really well, like a family.

Tell us a bit about when you worked in a team?

I work in a team at Happy Homes. I have been there a while but other people come and go.

What are your ambitions?

I want to get some more experience and then train to be a social worker.

What support might you need to do the job?

I have a back problem so I cannot lift anything heavy, but I am fit and have not taken any time off work with my back.

Can you cook?

YES/NO

Can you drive? YES/NO

Please give details of any relevant education, training or qualifications

School, college, or other From To Any qualification

Fieldhouse School

County College

1995

2001

1999

2002

GCSE English

NVQ level 2 social care

Work – list all the jobs you have had. Start with the most recent. You can include unpaid work

Date youStarted

Date you left

Employer Please tell us a bit about what you did

Wages

July 1999

February 2000

Feb 2000

Still there

County Kitchen Café

Happy Homes for people with learning difficulties

Waitress

Key worker for 6 people with learning difficulties

£5.00 per hour

£6.00 per hour

The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974The job you are applying for is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. It is a condition of the job that you tell us about all convictions (spent and unspent, including driving convictions). If you don’t tell us, you could be sacked.All staff will be checked through the Criminal Records Bureau.

If you have no past convictions, cautions or bind-overs and no pending cases please tick here

Please give details of any criminal convictions, cautions, bind-overs or pending cases below -

Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 – Section 8From 27 January 1997, employers are required to make sure that all new employees have the right to work in the UK. Please indicate below your right to work in the UK; applicants short-listed for interview will be required to provide evidence to support this statement.

I have the right to work in the UK as defined within Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996. Please tick one box YES NO

References: One of your referees should be your current or most recent employer. Can we contact your referees before interview? YES/NO

NAME: Sharon Stone

POSITION: manager

ADDRESS: Happy Homes

PHONE: 0113 247 7777

NAME: Martin Jarvis

POSITION: teacher

ADDRESS: Fieldhouse School, LEEDS

PHONE: 0113 270 8888