Part Time Senior Support Worker

NHS; Long Lee; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

A well-established healthcare provider is seeking a part-time Senior Support Worker in Keighley to support adults with complex mental health needs. This role involves assisting service users with daily activities and promoting independence. Candidates should have experience in a similar role and strong communication skills. Join a dedicated team focused on providing exceptional care and making a real difference in people's lives.

Benefits

Annual Salary of £25,740 Pro Rata

33 days annual leave Pro Rata – plus your birthday off

Free meals and parking

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Experience as Senior Support Worker with strong empathy.
• Excellent people and communication skills.
• Reliable, flexible, hard-working, and honest.

Responsibilities

• Assist Service Users with their day-to-day activities.
• Contributing to individual recovery journeys.
• Promoting independence and empowerment.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Leadership

Ability to deal with challenging behaviours

Positive and professional approach

Job description

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join Elysium Healthcare as a Part Time Senior Support Worker in Keighley. You will be responsible for supporting adults with complex mental health needs, helping them to lead a full and valued life. With a range of benefits and opportunities for career development, this role offers the chance to make a real difference in people's lives.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees. They have 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. Elysium Healthcare offers excellent career development opportunities and support for their employees.

Job responsibilities

Are you an experienced Senior Support Worker looking to elevate your career, where you can make a real difference and change lives for the better? If so, join Community Houses, and provide care for adults with complex mental health needs. You will be key in supporting individuals to lead a full and valued life. It’s a career that you can take pride in. Our Care Home service, known as Community Houses, has rapidly expanded with 4 sites across Keighley that offer a step-down service to adults with complex mental health needs. We are a unique service which offers enhanced care to our Service Users to continue with their rehabilitation journey, including physical health monitoring with support from local medical services. Each service is a large residential house with an office and is where you will help our Service Users to carry out routine daily tasks - everything from help with cooking, cleaning, activities in the community and encouraging independent living in their future. You will even have day trip visits to the seaside with service users as part of this role. At Community Houses, you will have the chance to develop your skills and career. With a huge range of courses on offer, if you have the aspiration, capability and dedication, Elysium Healthcare can give you the support and opportunities to help you achieve your career goals.

What you will be doing: You will join the qualified and experienced team that supports people with mental health conditions. We are a step-down service between Three Valleys Hospital and Independent Living, supporting service users who are ready to leave the hospital setting but do not quite have the full life skills to live on their own in the community. Whether you have been a Healthcare Assistant, Support Worker or a Care Worker, you can utilise your experience to support people to lead a valued and fulfilled life. We have a 4-tier working structure and all Senior Support Workers are on one level. You will report to a Team Leader with the Registered Manager and Deputy on-site daily who can be approached for support, questions and anything else you will need. The last staff survey identified that staff answered yes to the question ‘I feel well supported by my line manager.’ You will work across all four houses and encourage our Service Users to lead a full and valued life, helping them to live more independently, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. It can at times be a challenging environment, but regular feedback from staff is that it is hugely rewarding to see people improve; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week - because of you. As a 24/7 service the standard shift pattern is on a rolling two-week basis covering days, nights and weekends. Overtime is also available and occasional flexibility can also be offered.

Senior Support Worker duties include:

• Assist Service Users with their day-to-day activities i.e. cooking, cleaning, washing, some personal care
• Contributing to individual recovery journeys
• Promoting independence and empowerment
• Writing and updating care plans
• Recording Service User electronic notes
• Promoting activities and supporting Service Users with in-house and community-based rehabilitation
• Issuing Medication
• General duties such as admin, cleaning, stock ordering, contacting external healthcare services
• The role in some of our community houses involves independent lone working, medication administration and contributing to CPA’s

As a Senior Support Worker you will have:

• Experience as Senior Support Worker
• Leadership skills and experience
• Strong empathy and a caring and compassionate nature
• Willingness to support residents with personal hygiene
• Excellent people and communication skills, and a good sense of humour
• Ability to deal with challenging behaviours
• Positive and professional approach
• Reliable, flexible, hard-working and honest
• Be local or within commutable distance

Where you will be working

Location: Main St, Sutton-in-Craven, Keighley BD20. With 21 beds across four community houses and situated in the semi-rural areas of Steeton, Sutton-In-Craven and Cowling, our care homes are ideally located for safe, structured and gradual reintegration into the community. A driving licence is not essential, but please ensure you can commute by public transport if living out of area. Day shifts start at 7:35am.

Benefits

• Annual Salary of £25,740 Pro Rata
• 33 days annual leave Pro Rata – plus your birthday off
• Free meals and parking in local streets
• Wellbeing support and activities to help maintain work-life balance
• Career development and training
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity Package
• Retail discounts and special offers

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Support Worker with strong empathy, caring nature, excellent communication, and ability to deal with challenging behaviours. Must be reliable, flexible, hard-working, and honest with a positive and professional approach.

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 CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.