Day Support Worker

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

Benefits offered by this job

Wagestream

Blue Light Card

Doctor line 24/7/365

Cash plans for colleagues

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Evening & weekend pay premium

Overtime premium

Job summary

Voyage Care Gloucester is hiring a Day Support Worker to assist individuals with personal care, life skills, and community engagement in a welcoming setting at our Headway accredited ABI service in Gloucester.

You will be part of a dedicated team delivering person-centred support, with a rota including mornings and evenings and driving as a core requirement. DBS checks and references will be completed for offers.

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence required.
• Experience with Positive Behaviour Support plans.
• Experience with autism, acquired brain injury, complex mental health needs.

Responsibilities

• Enhance the lives of the people we support by teaching life skills and assisting with personal care.
• Encourage access to local communities, socialising and activities.
• Support outings to local restaurants, appointments, cinema or other activities.
• Participate in daily routines and provide consistent, caring support.

Skills

Driving licence

Flexibility

Resilience

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.

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 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.