Female Support Worker

Voyage Care; Bath; On-site; Part time

Job summary

A leading care provider is seeking a Part Time Female Support Worker in Bath to enhance the quality of life for individuals with learning disabilities and complex care needs. Candidates should possess a caring attitude, flexibility, and ideally have experience in supporting individuals with autism and epilepsy. This role offers sector-leading career progression and a supportive environment. Typical shifts are around 20 hours per week, with competitive hourly pay.

Benefits

Enhanced evening and weekend pay

Premium overtime rates

Wagestream access

Funded Blue Light Card

24/7 doctor line

Cash plans for colleagues

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Passion for enhancing the quality of life for individuals.
• Desire to learn and develop skills for career progression.
• Ability to assist with personal care and community access.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals to gain independence in daily lives.
• Engage in activities and encourage community involvement.
• Provide personal care and companionship.

Skills

Caring attitude

Flexibility

Resilience

Experience with autism

Experience with epilepsy

Full UK driving licence

Job description

Part Time Female Support Worker – Langport – £13.06 p/h
Typical Shifts are: Approx. 20 hours per week, a combination of 08:00 – 14:00 or 14:00 – 20:30 or 10:00 – 18:00 including alternate weekends.

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

We’re on the hunt for genuinely caring, hands‑on Female Support Workers with a passion for enhancing the quality of life of the people we support. As a Support Worker with us you’ll be helping people to gain more independence in their daily lives, whilst working within a dynamic team to support a fantastic group of people!

Our residential service in Langport looks out over the Somerset levels. Family‑oriented, this beautiful old house has a warm and welcoming feel. We enable individuals with learning disabilities, autism, epilepsy and complex care needs including visual impairments. No two days will be the same. You’ll enhance the lives of the people we support by assisting with personal care, encouraging them to access their local community—including the pub and local shops—and having fun by joining in with all manner of different activities.

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 that be making dinner by themselves or going on holiday.

Qualifications and Attributes

Ideal candidates hold a full UK driving licence, are resilient, flexible and composed in their approach and ideally have previous experience of supporting individuals with autism, epilepsy and visual impairments.

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. As 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 opportunities for promotion and progression as well as job security in a sector leading organisation.

Benefits

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.

Location: Bath, Somerset