Healthcare Support Worker - Leeds, Driver with Manual Licence

Care in Mind; Leeds; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free onsite parking

Healthcare CashPlan

Enhanced pension

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Life Assurance (2 x annual salary)

Job summary

Care in Mind operates residential services for young people and is seeking a Healthcare Support Worker in Leeds. The role requires a manual driving licence and willingness to drive the service car unsupervised, with shifts across early, late, and night patterns.

You will support young people with education, daily tasks, and medication administration in a therapeutic environment. Training will be provided, and there are opportunities for development within a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Flexibility to work weekends and bank holidays.
• Full UK Manual Driving Licence (not Automatic).
• Willing to attend training on weekdays.
• Good written skills for basic reports and records.
• Basic IT skills and use of online care system.
• Strong verbal communication and listening.
• Professional working boundary.
• Ability to stay calm in emergencies.
• NVQ Level 2 in Care (desirable).
• Experience of working with young people with mental health needs (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Promote independence through support with education, household tasks and life skills, update online care records.
• Complete medication administration.
• Maintain homely environment and tidiness of the home.
• Support eating disorders management with meal support and documentation.
• Manage incidents of self-harm and risk-taking behaviours; monitor health needs.
• Assist transition to independence, including education routes and transport.

Skills

Flexibility

Manual driving licence

Training attendance

Written communication

IT skills

Verbal communication

Professional boundaries

Calm under pressure

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Care

Tools

Online care system

Microsoft Office

Job description

Healthcare Support Worker - Leeds, Driver with Manual Licence

Moortown, Leeds

Must be a driver, with a current full UK licence, manual licence only, cannot accept automatic. Must be willing to drive the service car unsupervised.

£26227.50 - £27378.00 per annum based on experience.

Full Time 37.5 hours per week

Shift patterns will include :

Early - 7am - 3.30pm

Late - 2pm - 10.30pm

Early/late- 8am-7.30pm/10am-9.30pm

You may be required to cover Waking Night shifts on occasions for holiday/absence reasons;Waking Night - 8.30pm - 7.30am

Please note that we do not currently hold a sponsor licence and are therefore unable to sponsor work visas. Applicants must have the unrestricted right to work in the UK at the time of application and for the duration of employment.

Main duties of the job

Essential requirements of a Support Worker

• Flexibility - Your role will involve working shifts including weekends and Bank Holiday


• Full UK Manual Driving Licence - Not Automatic


• Must be able to attend training throughout employment which will be held on weekdays


• Good written skills and the ability to write basic reports and record information accurately


• Basic IT skills (Your role will involve some computer work, completing forms, using an online care system, and writing emails)


• Good verbal communication skills and the ability to listen to others


• An ability to maintain a professional working boundary


• Ability to remain calm in emergencies, supporting others during difficult situations


• Desirable Criteria of a Support Worke


• NVQ Level 2 qualification or equivalent in Care


• Previous experience of working with young people who have mental health needs

About us

Care in Mind provide residential services for young people aged 16-30 years old. The young people we care for often require a high level of support to assist with difficulties they may have from self-harming, behaviour, and emotional difficulties. Our aim is to support the young people using a therapeutic approach to help them achieve their individual goals, in preparation for transition to adult life.

Company Benefits

• An additional day off each year for your birthday


• Enhanced company sick pay


• Enhanced company pension


• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave


• Paid time off for fertility treatment


• Life Assurance (2 x annual salary)


• Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme


• Healthcare CashPlan with costs provided towards dental and optical care and a range of other healthcare treatments and benefits.


• Employee Assistance Programme/24-hour Counselling Service.


• Free eye tests and various other benefits.


• Excellent Learning and Development opportunities (Level 3 in Adult Health & Social Care and support with completion of the Care Certificate)


• Paid Training, Induction and DBS check.


• We are a Mindful & Disability Confident Employer.


• We are a supporter of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter.


• We are a Menopause Friendly Organisation.


• Long service awards.


• Social events including a Christmas party.


• Blue Light Card to access further shopping discounts


• Refer a Friend Scheme (Up to £500 per referral


• Free onsite parking.

Job responsibilities

At Care in Mind our homes are always a hub of activity and energy where the young people can feel safe, and our staff enjoy coming to work. Your role will involve working with our young people to promote independence through support with education, household tasks and general life skills. You will also update online care records and complete medication administration. In addition, you will be responsible for the general upkeep and tidiness of the home ensuring the young people live in homely environment.

At our new home in Leeds, you will be working with young people who have diagnosed eating disorders, alongside a variety of mental health diagnoses. Our young people often use self-harm and compensatory behaviours as a strategy to cope with their emotions. Your role will be required to support the young people through their eating complexities, including meal support, food and fluid documentation and post meal support. You will also support and help to manage incidents of self-harm and other risk-taking behaviours. Some of our young people have physical health concerns which require close monitoring and documenting - full training for this is provided. A number of our young people are preparing for independence too, to move on from the home into the community. Therefore you will be supporting this transition through things such as: discovering different education routes, accessing public transport and appointments independently and supporting them to self-administer their own medication. Our young people are all unique and have different interests, they engage in a variety of activities including going to theme parks, pottery painting and watching theatre plays, so there will never be a dull moment when you are on shift.

Previous care experience is not essentialand full training will be provided. You will receive ongoing support and mentoring from our friendly residential and clinical team.

The job is highly rewarding and a great start to developing your career working with young people or enhancing your previous experience of mental health with the opportunity for excellent career development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Do you have any formal qualifications in care?

Experience

• Experience of working in a team?


• Do you have An understanding of the issues young people face?

Skills

• Good written communication skills and the ability to write basic reports and record information accurately


• IT skills and the ability to write emails and use Microsoft office


• Do you hold a full manual UK clean driving license? This must be a manual licence.

Other

• Able to work shifts (including weekends, bank holidays where required to complete any necessary training)


• Good verbal communication skills and the ability to listen to others

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£26,227.50 to £27,378 a yearPer Annum, Dependant on Experience