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Agincare Group; Devizes; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Refer a friend scheme

Fully funded training

Company pension

Job summary

Agincare is seeking a Senior Support Worker in Devizes, Wiltshire, to oversee and deliver high-quality support for people living in supported living. You will split time between hands-on care and leadership/administrative tasks to ensure the service runs smoothly.

The role involves working with up to 38 people across 7 bungalows, providing direct support on shifts and contributing to service leadership. A UK driver’s licence and Level 2 Health and Social Care are required, with progression to

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 months on your right to work in the UK.
• Full UK Driver's licence is required.
• Level 2 Health and Social Care and willingness to work towards Level 3.

Responsibilities

• Encouraging people to play active roles in their communities and promote independence.
• Supporting activities of daily living including personal care, meals, routines, and budgeting.
• Communicating effectively using people’s chosen methods.
• Engaging and motivating people to enhance their quality of life.
• Supporting people with positive behavioural support approaches as needed.
• Recording accurate records and reporting changes in health or circumstances to management.
• Being a team player and using initiative to contribute to the service.

Skills

UK Driver's Licence

Right to work in UK

Education

Health and Social Care Level 2

Job description

Are you ready to make a real difference in someone’s life?

Are you ready to take the

lead and make a real difference in people’s lives?We’re looking for an experienced and motivated Senior

Support Worker to join our Wiltshire service based in Devizes, helping to oversee and deliver high-quality

support. You will report into the Registered Manager, splitting your time between hands-on

support and leadership/administrative tasks to ensure our service runs smoothly.This is a varied and rewarding role with plenty of opportunity to make an impact.

About the people you’ll be

supporting: We

support up to 38 people living across 7 bungalows in the heart of Wiltshire, just outside the market town of Devizes. This is a unique service within Wiltshire offering supporting living, enabling people to live as

independently as possible within their own homes and local community. We are looking for

support workers to join our amazing team, to continue delivering outstanding outcomes.

Where you’ll be working: DEVIZES

This is a full-time role where your week will be split between providing direct

support on shift and also completing leadership and administrative tasks.

As an Agincare employee you’ll enjoy:

• Refer a friend scheme earn up to £500*
• Fully funded training and career development
• Company pension scheme

What is required from you?

• A minimum of 12 months on your right to work
• Full UK Drivers licence
• level 2 in Health and Social Care and willing to work towards level 3

How we achieve our outcomes with the people we

support.

As part of your day to day work you will be offering the following;

• Encouraging – people to play

  active roles in the communities in which they live, to encourage independence.

• Supporting –Activities of daily Living including social activities, personal care, routines, planning and preparation of meals and budgeting.

• Communicating - effectively communicate using people’s chosen methods

• Engaging - promoting and motivating people we

  support to enhance their quality of life

• supporting people who may need positive behavioural

  support approaches

• Recording - keeping accurate records &reporting changes in health or circumstances of service users to management

• Team player – Working as part of a team, as well as being able to work using your own initiative.

About Agincare

Agincare is proudly celebrating 40years of caring for communities. As a rapidly growing, family-owned care provider with more than 5,500 team members, and expanding every day, we continue to strengthen our services through recent care home developments and the launch of our new not-for-profit Children’s Services. Today, Agincare is one of the UK’s largest care providers, delivering care and nursing homes, home care, extra care,

supported living, and live-in care across more than 170 locations nationwide.As a signatory of the Care Leaver Covenant, we are

committed to

supporting care leavers by guaranteeing either an interview or an informal career conversation. We are proud to

support the Armed

Forces community through our alliance, offering guaranteed interviews to service leavers and members of the military community.All of our services areregulated by the CQCand Agincare is proud to be anequal opportunities employerand encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences. At present, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.As care is always in high demand, we have a wide range of exciting opportunities available. If this particular role isn’t the right fit for you, we encourage you to explore our other vacancies,

All of our care services are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Equal opportunities are important to us at Agincare and we welcome applications from all.