Bank Support Worker

Eviqa Complex Care; Plymouth; Sur place; GBP 19 000 - 21 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Eviqa Complex Care is seeking a Bank Support Worker to assist adults and children with learning disabilities, autism, brain injury and mental health needs across Devon and Cornwall, including Plymouth. You will provide 1:1 community support, help with daily living skills, and offer breaks for families in a flexible, field-based role.

Shifts are evenings, weekends and some nights; pay is £14–£15 per hour with enhanced rates for evenings and bank holidays.

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence and access to a car with business use insurance.
• Enhanced DBS on the Update Service or willing to apply (refunded after 50 hours).
• Right to work in the UK.
• Able to work some evenings, weekends or nights.
• Calm, patient and kind, including when things get challenging.
• Reliable: when you say you’ll be there, you’re there.
• Good communicator who listens and treats people with respect.
• Clear, simple written English for recording shifts on a phone.

Responsabilités

• 1:1 support in the community: days out, appointments, hobbies, social time.
• Helping people build independent living skills and keep their home.
• Short breaks for disabled children and young people.
• Being a familiar face beside a child or adult in hospital.
• Alternative education support and mentoring.
• Short-notice cover when social care teams need someone they can rely on.
• This is support work: no personal care and no medication.

Connaissances

Reliable

Good communicator

Clear written English

Calm and patient

Car and UK driving licence

Formation

A Level 2/3 in health & social care

Description du poste

£14 to £15 an hour | Paid weekly | Choose your own shifts

Based around Newton Abbot, Teignbridge and Torbay, with work across Devon.

You didn’t get into care to rush. You got into it to make a difference to someone’s day, and to their life.

At Eviqa Complex Care, that’s the job. No 15-minute calls. No clock-watching. Proper time with one person: getting them out into their community, building their confidence, helping them do things for themselves, and being the steady person in the room when things get hard.

We’re a clinician-led team, led by a paramedic, supporting children, young people and adults with learning disabilities, autism, brain injury and mental health needs across Devon, Torbay, Plymouth, Cornwall and Somerset.

Be the support worker you want to be

We’ll trust your judgement. If you can see a better way to help someone, we want to hear it. If something doesn’t feel right, we want you to speak up, and we’ll back you when you do. Doing the right thing is never the wrong call here.

What the work looks like

1:1 support in the community: days out, appointments, hobbies, social time

Helping people build independent living skills and keep their home

Short breaks for disabled children and young people

Being a familiar face beside a child or adult in hospital

Alternative education support and mentoring

Short-notice cover when social care teams need someone they can rely on

This is support work: no personal care and no medication.

What’s in it for you

£14 an hour with adults, £15 an hour with children and young people

Paid weekly, every Friday

Evenings and weekends +£1.25 an hour, bank holidays at time and a half, short-notice shifts +£1.50 an hour

45p a mile for travel during shifts

You choose the shifts you take. Fit it around family, study or another job

DBS refunded after your first 50 hours

First aid and life support training taught by a paramedic, not a slideshow

A clinical lead and an on‑call manager behind you on every shift, so you’re never on your own with a problem

Records on your phone in minutes, so your time goes on the person, not the paperwork

Paid holiday and a workplace pension

You’ll be a great fit if you

Have supported someone with additional needs, at work, in your family, volunteering or in education

Stay calm and kind when a situation is challenging

Are reliable: when you say you’ll be there, you’re there

Have a full UK driving licence and a car with business insurance

Can do some evenings, weekends or nights

No care qualification? That’s fine. Students, teaching assistants, youth workers, healthcare students and people with lived experience all make brilliant support workers. We’ll train you.

The checks

An enhanced DBS (child and adult workforce) on the DBS Update Service. If you don’t have one, we’ll process it for you and refund it after your first 50 hours. Two references and right to work in the UK.

Essential requirementsFull UK driving licence and access to a car with business use insuranceEnhanced DBS on the Update Service, or willing to apply (refunded after 50 hours)Right to work in the UKAble to work some evenings, weekends or nightsLife skillsCalm, patient and kind, including when things get challengingReliable: when you say you’ll be there, you’re thereGood communicator who listens and treats people with respectConfident speaking up when something doesn’t feel rightClear, simple written English for recording shifts on a phoneExperienceExperience supporting someone with additional needs, paid or unpaid, at work, in your family, volunteering or in educationExperience with learning disabilities, autism, mental health, brain injury, children or young people is welcome but not essentialQualificationsNone required. Full training is provided, including first aid and life support taught by a paramedicA Level 2 or 3 in health and social care, childcare or similar is welcome

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Bank Support Worker

Company: Eviqa Complex Care Salary: £14 to £15 an hour Hours: Part-time Location: Plymouth Working pattern: Field-based Job type: Permanent Posting date: 2 Nov 2026 Closing date: 1 Dec 2026