Positive Behaviour Support Worker

Client:

Home Group

Location:

Snodland, Kent

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

af9a74edb013

Job Views:

3

Posted:

18.04.2025

Expiry Date:

02.06.2025

Job Description:

Support Worker Complex Care
Permanent, full time 37.5 hours per week
£26,645 per annum (pro rata) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Join us in this great and rewarding job, as our Support Worker (known Internally as Positive Behavioural Support Worker). You’ll join our team to provide person-centred and strengths-based support to our customer (let's call them J) and help them reach their full potential. J has complex needs including a moderate learning disability, autism, communication challenges, ADHD, some sensory processing challenges as well as being non verbal. J loves her activities and has a very full calendar, most recently she has started enjoying swimming. J loves coffee and people watching so Costa for coffee and cake is a must!

Typical day as our Support Worker:

1. Helping J overcome barriers and help them lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach their true potential.
2. Recognising their strengths and abilities and helping them take small steps at their pace, never losing sight of their dreams and aspirations!
3. Supporting J using Positive Behavioural Support model to promote independence and social inclusion through person centred support.
4. Monitoring our customers’ mental and physical health to identify any signs of deterioration and take positive risk management to their health and wellbeing.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers' lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Places to Work in the UK!

You have:

1. Experience in a Complex Care setting, with a Level 2 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or are prepared to work towards it.
2. Worked as a Support Worker, supporting people with complex needs, or behaviours of distress.
3. A patient and calm approach, able to adapt your style to J's needs, as well as to the specific occasion and circumstances, even when they challenge us.
4. Experience of positive risk management, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.
5. To help J get out and about, you’ll need to be able to drive / have a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.

Our team: Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!

Job details:

1. 37.5 Hours per week made up of a mixture of early and late starts, long days and/or wake nights.
2. Although you’ll work nights/lone work, we do get together regularly (in the daytime) for training and team meetings.
3. Able to use technology to create and update support plans, communicate with colleagues and complete online learning.
4. We’ll make sure you have a fantastic induction with ongoing learning and support.
5. You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check to do this job, which we pay for.

A place where you belong: Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

1. 34 days leave (including bank holidays and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy), increasing to 39, with the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
2. Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
3. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out.
4. We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
5. Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
6. Explore our benefits in detail on our website.

Find out more: Click APPLY NOW to see our PBS Support Worker Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk

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Created on 18/04/2025 by TN United Kingdom