Senior Support Worker

Integrated Care System; Dover; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A care service provider is seeking an experienced Senior Support Worker in Dover, Kent. This role involves overseeing shifts, ensuring the wellbeing of service users with learning disabilities and autism, and supervising support staff. The position offers a salary of £27,665 and benefits like 33 days annual leave, career development, and wellbeing support.

Benefits

Annual base salary of £27,665

33 days annual leave

Free meals and parking

Wellbeing support

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Support Worker or extensive care experience.
• Strong empathy and a caring nature.
• Excellent communication skills and a good sense of humour.

Responsibilities

• Organize and oversee the smooth running of shifts.
• Ensure wellbeing of service users.
• Supervise support staff and administer medication.

Skills

Leadership skills

Empathy

Communication skills

Compassion

Resilience

Ability to handle challenging behaviour

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care

Job description

This is an opportunity for an experienced Senior Support Worker to join Elysium Healthcare and make a real difference in the lives of individuals with learning disabilities and autism. The role involves organizing and overseeing the smooth running of shifts, ensuring the wellbeing of service users, and supervising support staff. It's a challenging but highly rewarding position that offers opportunities for career development and training.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Support Worker, you will be responsible for organizing and overseeing the smooth running of shifts, ensuring the wellbeing of all service users, responding to any challenges or concerns, and supervising support staff. You will also be involved in organizing activities, administering medication, communicating with families and professionals, overseeing daily reports and budgets, completing financial audits, and conducting health and safety checks. The role requires a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance, as well as strong leadership, empathy, and communication skills.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established and stable company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. It is part of the global Ramsay Health Care network, which extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people. Elysium Healthcare operates a network of over 90 services across England and Wales, covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, providing opportunities for growth and career progression.

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 Felbrigg House and provide care for Service Users with Learning Disabilities and Autism. You will be key in supporting individuals to lead a full and valued life. It’s a career that you can take pride in.

At Felbrigg House, 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 an inclusive, supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will have the opportunity to use your knowledge and skills to help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society.

As a Senior Support Worker, some of your key responsibilities will include organizing and overseeing the smooth running of a shift, ensuring the wellbeing of all service users, responding to any challenges or concerns, and supervising support staff. You will organize activities, administer medication, communicate with families and professionals, oversee daily reports, budgets, complete financial audits, and conduct H&S checks.

It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important. It is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of you; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week.

No two days are the same in this role, offering plenty of engagement and motivation. While there's a degree of routine, you can expect a diverse work environment. Our rota includes days, nights, and weekend shifts to ensure a well-balanced team effort.

As a Senior Support Worker, you will have:

• Experience as a Senior Support Worker or extensive care experience from a learning disability and autism residential setting and hold the NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care.
• 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
• A positive and professional approach
• Reliability, flexibility, hard work, and honesty
• Be local or within a commutable distance

You must live in the UK and have the Right to Work in the UK full time.

20-hour Student and Skilled Worker Visas cannot be accepted.

Location: St Alphege Road, Dover, Kent CT16 2PU

What you will get:

• Annual base salary of £27,665
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking in local streets.
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals
• Pension contribution to secure your future
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers, and much more.

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.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.