If you would like to find out more about employment with Les Amis, please contact: The Human Resources Manager at Les Amis either by telephone or email - use the Contact Us button below. Alternatively, you can forward your CV in confidence to the HR Manager, Personnel Department. On submission of a completed application form, all candidates for employment are offered an 'informal' meeting to discuss the nature of work undertaken at Les Amis.

Whilst Les Amis remains an accredited NVQ Centre for care awards at levels 2 and 3 a search is currently taking place to find a more appropriate and specialist award more relevant to the field of learning disability. With this in mind, Les Amis is working with other voluntary organisations and the statutory sector in becoming a satellite training centre for BILD, (British Institute of Learning Disability). Following a successful ‘pilot’ programme launched in early 2007, a distance learning ASET qualification has been adopted, specifically designed for those working in the field of learning disability. Ten staff joined the original programme and a further two groups of ten have now been enrolled. This will be further expanded in 2008 and through to 2009.

To aid candidates working through qualifications of various kinds and the extensive programme of 'in-house' training, a resource facility and training room have been established with the main building at Five Oaks. Where such expertise is not currently available 'in-house', external trainers are brought in.

All staff undertake a range of mandatory training on (or soon after) commencement of employment. These include Diet & Nutrition, Food Hygiene, First Aid, Manual Handling, Sexual Health & Relationships, Duty of Care & Accountability, Epilepsy & Vulnerable Adults, and a basic understanding of Challenging Behaviour.
Staff are also offered specialist training relevant to the particular work they are involved in, such as techniques in working with those with profound physical disabilities, more advanced practice in challenging behaviour and those in the children's respite service, who undertake a whole range of training to meet legal requirements in this area, including Child Protection.
Each year over 30 areas or topics of training are covered and Les Amis is happy to support staff in accessing other types of training specific to their needs.

At LES AMIS we are frequently looking to recruit new staff for existing projects and new developments.
Professional qualifications are not normally required other than for Project Managers. Instead we look for qualities such as common sense, respect for others, initiative, enthusiasm and last but not least, a sense of humour. Project Managers need a professional qualification in the field of social work, nursing or similar, relevant field related to social care.

Les Amis is a rapidly expanding organisation that grows to meet the needs of those with learning disabilities in Jersey. As at the time of writing, Summer 2008, there is a total of 131 staff employed by us, full or part-time. The vast majority, around 100, are support staff working directly with residents.
Les Amis provides accommodation for the entire range of learning disability including those with dual-diagnosis mental health issues, those with physical disabilities or sensory impairments in addition to a learning disability, those who present with behaviours that challenge the service, those who have autistic spectrum disorders in addition to a learning disability through to highly independent married couples who rent their own flats and need only the lowest level of support.

In addition to permanent accommodation we also provide three respite services, including one to children, known as Maison Allo, managed on behalf of Jersey Mencap, and a range of day services such as COGS, COGS Gardens and Basic Skills.

To assist and support our residents we have a range of posts from weekend staff who work perhaps only 4 hours every other weekend through to full-time staff doing 35 hours a week. The range of house settings and ages and needs of the residents means that our staff team is diverse in the extreme and applications are welcomed from anybody who has an interest in and empathy with people with learning disabilities.
Due to the potential of communication difficulties with at least some of our residents, a good command of the English language is a necessity.
It is to be noted that support at Les Amis includes occasional sleep-in duties, shift work and unsocial hours, including weekends.