Part time Waking Nights Support Worker - Edenbridge - Kent (30 hours)

HF Trust; Edenbridge; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A community support organization in Edenbridge is seeking a Waking Night Support Worker to help learning disabled adults with their life goals. You'll provide overnight support, ensuring comfort and safety while encouraging independence and new experiences. This role offers training opportunities and generous leave, with a competitive hourly rate of £14.04 including premium.

Benefits

Generous holidays: 33 days of annual leave

Fully funded training in Health & Social Care

Pay incentives for bank holidays and overtime

Qualifications

• Must be available for night shifts from 10pm to 7am.
• Driving license and access to a car preferred.
• Capable of providing high-standard support for learning disabled adults.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals throughout the night to ensure their comfort and safety.
• Listen to their wants and needs, assisting with daily tasks.
• Encourage individuals to discover new interests and maintain relationships.

Skills

Active listening

Empathy

Basic personal care

Job description

Overview

We’re recruiting! Join us as a Waking Night Learning Disability Waking Night Support Worker (30 hours) and help build a future where learning disabled people live the best life possible.

We know that life can be complicated for everybody. But some of us are stopped from working towards our dreams. Many learning disabled people won’t be heard about the support they’d like. Some won’t get to decide what they do for work. Or how to spend or save their money. Many won\'t get to try out the new hobbies they’d love to try. But you can change all that.

Join our growing Waking Night team in Edenbridge, and get all the training you need to become a confident Support Worker.

If you feel our values - Kind, Diverse, Positive and Visionary - match your values, we\'ve got lots in common already. Come on board and support learning disabled adults with those values to develop skills, achieve life goals and thrive in your community.

What you’ll be doing

Waking night support workers are required to remain awake throughout the night to support individuals as required. As a Waking Nights Support Worker, you will support individuals throughout the night to ensure they are comfortable and safe. Every day is different. You may be supporting someone to plan their weekly shop, go on an outdoor adventure, provide everyday personal care, or support someone to go to their favourite gig. You could be building someone’s confidence in using public transport or teaching money management skills. What’s important is supporting people to discover new interests, achieve new goals and maintain important relationships with their family and friends. You’ll provide the highest possible standard of care and support for learning disabled adults. Listening to their wants and needs, enabling people to do daily tasks such as taking medication, cooking a meal or working with them to build their confidence and take on new adventures they are longing for. All this while working a variety of shifts to support your work and home life balance. Public transport to our service here is limited, so it would be great if you had a driving licence and access to a car, or are able to get help getting to and from the service.

We can’t wait to meet you at our Edenbridge services!

Find your place with us and change lives.

What we offer

• Type of service – Supported Living - supporting individuals with learning disabilities.
• Location – Philippines Close, Edenbridge, Kent, TN8 5GN
• Salary information – £14.04 per hour (£12.77 basic rate + 10% Waking Nights premium)
• Working hours – Waking Nights 10pm-7am
• Up to 20% bank holiday allowance
• Generous Holidays: 33 days of annual leave (including eight days statutory bank holidays).
• Pay incentives: 10% overtime allowance, 20% Bank Holiday allowance, 50% for key dates over Christmas.
• Training & development: Earn money while you get a fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care.
• Lots of benefits: Health, retail and cash incentives to use how you want.

Requirements & notices

Strictly no agencies please.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.

Hft\'s usual terms and conditions apply. Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do. Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment.