Empowering Care & Support Worker (Flexible Hours)

CYGNET; Hattersley; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Apprenticeship scheme

Flexible working

Coaching & appraisal

Wellbeing centre

Cycle to Work

Job summary

CYGNET is seeking a confident Care & Support Worker to join the Lowry House team. You will work full time (42 hours per week) on 12-hour shifts, including alternate weekends, on a two-week rolling rota, delivering person-centred care to residents with learning disabilities and complex needs.

The role involves offering physical and emotional support, safeguarding, helping users access community activities, and promoting independence.

Qualifications

• Genuinely driven with a desire to make a real difference in people’s lives
• An excellent communicator and a good team player
• Sensitive and intuitive with the energy required to provide a trusting, stimulating & varied environment
• Able to empower & support service user independence

Responsibilities

• Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach for all the people in our care
• Provide guidance & encouragement through physical & emotional support
• Learn about individuals’ specific needs & provide help in the most appropriate way
• Assist with and report on medical & welfare needs
• Safeguard
• Maintain a safe, clean environment for all
• Supporting service users to access the community, to attend things like work, college, hobbies & activities, days out & holidays
• Supporting the service users to grow, develop & learn through engaging them in tasks such as cooking & cleaning

Skills

Care & empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Sensitivity

Empowerment

Job description

CYGNET is seeking a confident Care & Support Worker to join the Lowry House team. You will work full time (42 hours per week) on 12-hour shifts, including alternate weekends, on a two-week rolling rota, delivering person-centred care to residents with learning disabilities and complex needs.

The role involves offering physical and emotional support, safeguarding, helping users access community activities, and promoting independence.