Night Support Worker

Elysium Healthcare; Eastbourne; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Eastbourne is seeking a Night Support Worker to provide care for individuals with learning disabilities and autism. This full-time position requires strong communication skills, empathy, and the ability to handle challenging behaviours. The role is rewarding, allowing you to make a significant difference in residents' lives. The job offers competitive salary, development opportunities, and a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Annual salary of £24,556

33 days annual leave

Free meals and parking

Wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working with individuals with learning disabilities and epilepsy.
• Strong empathy, a caring and compassionate nature.
• Excellent people and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to residents with severe learning disabilities and autism.
• Support and encourage residents to lead a fulfilling life.
• Work in a multidisciplinary team focusing on individuals' care pathways.

Skills

Empathy

Communication skills

Compassion

Resilience

Ability to deal with challenging behaviours

Job description

Overview

The job entails providing care and support to individuals with learning disabilities, autism, and challenging behaviours at Ranworth House in Eastbourne. The successful candidate will be part of a multidisciplinary team and will use their excellent communication skills and experience in supporting individuals to lead a full and valued life. The role requires a caring and compassionate nature, the ability to deal with challenging behaviours, and a positive and professional approach.

What you will be doing

As a Night Support Worker, you will join an inclusive and supportive team to provide care and support to people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will use your knowledge and skills to help individuals lead a valued and fulfilled life, working alongside a multidisciplinary team. The role involves excellent communication skills, the ability to deal with challenging behaviours, and a positive attitude. You will work night shifts on a 4-on, 4-off rolling rota, with a full-time, permanent contract of 36.75 hours per week.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for growth and career development.

Job responsibilities

Are you a naturally empathetic, caring and compassionate Support Worker in the UK with experience of caring for people with learning disabilities?

Do you want a fulfilling career, where you can make a difference and change lives for the better in a culture of kindness and teamwork? Where you’ll be supported with development opportunities to grow you as a person and in your career?

Join Ranworth House in Eastbourne as a Support Worker and provide care for people with severe learning disabilities, Autism and behaviours that may be seen as challenging; where you’ll support and encourage them to lead a full and valued life, enabling them to live more independently.

You’ll be great with people – a real ‘people person’, able to communicate effectively – explaining yourself clearly in the right tone to suit the situation and be really good at understanding others (behaviours and expressions, as well as vocal). Having a good sense of humour and resilience, and a willingness to help residents with their personal hygiene are also important.

What you will be doing You will join an inclusive, supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. Whether you have experience as a Care Assistant or Support Worker, you will use your knowledge and skills to help support people lead a valued and fulfilled life.

Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will use your excellent communication skills and experience as a Support Worker with a background in Learning Disabilities & Autism to provide care and support people through their care pathway. It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of you; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week. You’ll work night shifts 4 on 4 off, rolling rota, permanent, full-time contract, 36.75 hours per week.

Where you will be working Location: 1 Prideaux Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN21 2NW

Ranworth House is part of our Learning Disability and Autism division and provides a specialist residential service for men and women with a range of learning disabilities, including autism and sensory and communication impairments.

This specialist service is designed for those individuals with a learning disability who require a high level of support to live within a community setting and will continue to require this longer term. Clients may be transitioning from children’s residential services, education, moving out of the family home. We are also experienced in successfully managing clients moving from services where their placements may have broken down or where their needs are no longer being met.

About Ranworth House

The home is a large, detached house with two lounges, a sensory room, dining room, kitchen and surrounding garden. Each person has their own spacious en-suite bedroom.

It is located in Eastbourne in East Sussex. This seaside town enjoys an excellent range of facilities and amenities including parks and gardens. Eastbourne has direct train and road access to London and good road links around the area.

The aim of the service is to encourage individuals to lead a full and valued life, enabling them to live more independently through a programme of active community engagement, developing meaningful social networks and developing robust coping strategies.

In this role you will:

• Have experience of working with Epilepsy and Learning Disability
• Have strong empathy and a caring and compassionate nature
• Be willing to support residents with personal hygiene
• Have excellent people and communication skills, and a good sense of humour
• Deal with challenging behaviours
• Have a positive and professional approach
• Be reliable, flexible, hard-working and honest
• Be local or within commutable distance

You must live in the UK and have the Right to Work in the UK full time. 20-hour Student and Skilled Worker Visa's cannot be accepted.

What you will get

• Annual base salary of £24,556 (£12.85 hourly rate)
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• You should have experience of working with individuals with learning disabilities and epilepsy, as well as strong empathy, a caring and compassionate nature, and excellent people and communication skills. A willingness to support residents with personal hygiene, a positive and professional approach, and being reliable, flexible, hard-working, and honest are also required.

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.