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Voyage Care; Leeswood; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced evenings/weekends pay

Social Care Wales registration paid

Overtime premium pay

Wagestream access

Blue Light Card discounts

24/7/365 doctor line

Cash plans for staff and families

Enhanced retirement leave

Job summary

Voyage Care seeks an Experienced Female* Support Worker to join our Flintshire team. The role offers enhanced pay for evenings and weekends, plus various staff benefits, and involves helping people gain daily independence within a supportive team.

You will assist with personal care, community access, and life skills, while adhering to Positive Behaviour Support plans. A full UK driving licence is preferred and DBS checks apply.

Qualifications

• Genuine caring and hands-on approach to supporting individuals.
• Ability to work as part of a dynamic team.
• Willingness to meet service user needs with patience and empathy.

Responsibilities

• Assist with daily living and personal care to promote independence.
• Encourage and enable service users to access local communities and activities.
• Support with life skills, outings, and social activities in the service setting.
• Follow Positive Behaviour Support plans and reflect on practice with the team.
• Possess a full UK manual driving licence (over 12 months).

Skills

Compassionate

Hands-on

Flexible

Team player

Job description

Experienced Female* Support Worker – Flintshire - £13.45 per hour and £58.75 per sleep in

Typical Shifts; are Varied long days with sleep ins

Join Voyage Care and Feel Valued, we reward your dedication with:

• Enhanced evening and weekend pay at an additional 50p per hour (Ts & Cs apply)
• Paid Social Care Wales registration for your first year
• Premium overtime rates at an additional £1 per hour (Ts & Cs apply)
• Wagestream – giving you the flexibility to draw upon up to 40% of your pay, as it is earned.
• Funded Blue Light Card – hundreds of discounts at high street retailers etc.
• 24/7/365 doctor line for our colleagues and their families
• Access to cash plans for our colleagues, which also covers their families
• Enhanced retirement leave

We’re on the hunt for genuinely caring, hands‑on Female* Support Workers with a passion for enhancing the quality of life of the people we support. As a support worker with us you'll be helping people to gain more independence in their daily lives, whilst working within a dynamic team to support a fantastic group of people!

Our supported living service in Flintshire is a welcoming and friendly environment and you can be sure that no two days will be the same! You’ll be enhancing the lives of the people we support by teaching them new life skills, assisting with personal care, encouraging them to access their local communities, socialising and doing lots of activities. One day you could be out with the people we support in local bars and pubs, the next you could be unwinding with them playing video games, watching films or going to the cinema.

This is an amazing role for someone who is looking to really make a difference to someone's life and to help them grow in confidence and independence so that they meet their goals, whether this be making dinner by themselves or going on holiday.

We’re interested in our Support Workers having both the right experience and the right values. This is why at this service our Support Workers, be resilient, flexible and composed in their approach, hold a full UK manual driving license (for over 12 months) have experience with following Positive Behaviour Support plans and reflective practice as well as experience working with individuals requiring enhanced support, including behaviour's of distress, mental health conditions, autism, and people who have experienced trauma.

Why choose us?

We embrace people’s differences and encourage you to Be You, and so long as you’ve got the passion to make someone’s life better, we can give you all the skills and development opportunities you need to build a great career.

We encourage our staff to Grow Together through our excellent training programme, starting at induction and following you through your career, with opportunity for promotion and progression as well as job security in a sector leading organisation.

We have a fantastic range of benefits for our staff and we offer sector leading career progression, so don't hesitate to apply today and make a real difference to the lives of the people we're supporting!

All applicants and subsequent job offers will be subject to satisfactory DBS checks and references.

* Some of our roles require male or female employees only, where this is indicated it is a genuine occupational requirement, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010