Senior Support Worker

Creative Support; Dudley; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of care in Dudley seeks a dedicated Senior Support Worker to enhance the lives of individuals with learning disabilities. In this role, you'll lead a passionate team, provide quality support, and advocate for service users, enabling them to maintain independence and engage in the community. Full training is offered, along with opportunities for professional development. Join us to make a meaningful impact in a supportive environment that values diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Probationary bonus

Pension contributions

28 days Annual Leave

Company paid enhanced DBS

Qualifications

• Experience supporting individuals with learning disabilities.
• Ability to lead a team and ensure high-quality support.
• Understanding of policies and procedures in care.

Responsibilities

• Supervising and mentoring a team of support staff.
• Developing outcome-focused support for service users.
• Ensuring compliance with policies and maintaining staff deployment.

Skills

Caring

Leadership

Communication

Education

QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care

Job description

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Are you a kind, patient and caring individual looking to make a positive impact within your career?

Our vibrant service in Dudley provides excellent person centred care and support to individuals with learning disabilities living in their own homes. We are looking for a knowledgeable, resourceful and energetic senior support worker to join our team in supporting people with a learning disability and other needs in their own tenancies.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a warm, caring and empowering approach to supporting people within their own homes. You will have the vision and flair to lead the staff team to provide the highest standard of person centred support and empowering support individual needs of service users. The role will involve direct support, staff development and supervision, and joint working with families and outside agencies. You will ensure high quality support is provided to service users with learning disabilities, and to deploy staff effectively in line with contractual requirements.

Senior Support Worker Duties:

• Supervising, managing and mentoring a team of staff
• Ensuring policies and procedures are adhered to
• Developing and sustaining warm and trusting relationships with service users
• Providing outcome-focused support to enable service users to lead fulfilling and valued lives, maintain their tenancies, participate in their local community, develop independent living skills and achieve their personal goals and desired outcomes

Vacancy Reference Number: 79047

Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number.

Full training is provided, as is the opportunity to work towards QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care. Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 28 days Annual Leave and company paid enhanced DBS.

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization – Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold awarded.

We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK. – This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme.