Day Support Worker

Voyage Care; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced evening/weekend pay

Overtime premium

Wagestream

Blue Light Card

Doctors line 24/7

Cash plans

Retirement leave

Long service awards

Job summary

Voyage Care in Gloucester is recruiting a Day Support Worker to help people with brain injury and complex needs gain independence, learn life skills, and join local activities. A full UK driving licence is preferred and roles involve DBS checks.

Pay starts at £12.95–£14.95 per hour, with enhanced evening/weekend pay and overtime where applicable. Typical shifts are 08:00-15:00 and 15:00-22:00 on a rota from Monday to Sunday.

Qualifications

• Must hold a full UK driving license.
• Experience with autism, acquired brain injury and mental health needs in a care setting.
• Experience following Positive Behaviour Support plans and reflective practice.

Responsibilities

• Teach life skills and assist with personal care.
• Encourage access to local communities and social activities.
• Support with meals, outings to restaurants or cinema and day-to-day activities.

Skills

Positive Behaviour Support

Reflective practice

Autism

Acquired brain injury

Mental health needs

Challenging behaviours

Job description

Day Support Worker – Gloucester - Pay rate starts at: £12.95 - £14.95 (Ts & Cs apply)

**This position prefers you to have a Full UK Manual Driving licence**

Typical Shifts are: 08:00 - 15:00 and 15:00 - 22:00 on a rota Monday - Sunday

Join Voyage Care and Feel Valued, we reward your dedication with:

• Enhanced evening and weekend pay at an additional 50p per hour (Ts & Cs apply)
• Premium overtime rates at an additional £1 per hour (Ts & Cs apply)
• Wagestream – giving you the flexibility to draw upon up to 40% of your pay, as it is earned.
• Funded Blue Light Card – hundreds of discounts at high street retailers etc.
• 24/7/365 doctor line for our colleagues and their families
• Access to cash plans for our colleagues, which also covers their families
• Enhanced retirement leave
• Long service awards

Our Headway accredited ABI (Acquired Brain Injury) service Gloucester provides long term specialist care. It has a welcoming and friendly environment and you can be sure that no two days will be the same! You’ll be enhancing the lives of the people we support by teaching them new life skills, assisting with personal care, encouraging them to access their local communities, socialising and doing lots of activities. One day you could be out with the people we support in local restaurants and attending appointments, the next you could be unwinding with them watching films or going to the cinema.

This is an amazing role for someone who is looking to really make a difference to someone's life and to help them grow in confidence and independence so that they meet their goals, whether this be making dinner by themselves or going on holiday.

We’re interested in our Support Workers having both the right experience and the right values. This is why at this service our Support Workers should hold a full UK driving license, be resilient, flexible and composed in their approach, have experience with following Positive Behaviour Support plans and reflective practice as well as experience working with individuals with autism, acquired brain injury, complex individuals with mental health needs, traumatic backgrounds and challenging behaviours.

Why choose us?

You don’t need to have experience to be a fantastic Support Worker, what you need is a passion for enhancing the quality of life for the people we support, a desire to learn and a genuine caring attitude.

We embrace people’s differences and encourage you to Be You, and so long as you’ve got the passion to make someone’s life better, we can give you all the skills and development opportunities you need to build a great career.

We encourage our staff to Grow Together through our excellent training programme, starting at induction and following you through your career, with opportunity for promotion and progression as well as job security in a sector leading organisation.

We have a fantastic range of benefits for our staff and we offer sector leading career progression, so don't hesitate to apply today and make a real difference to the lives of the people we're supporting!

All applicants and subsequent job offers will be subject to satisfactory DBS checks and references.