Senior Support Worker

Voyage Care; Failsworth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community care organization based in Failsworth is seeking a Senior Support Worker dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for individuals supported. The successful candidate will have a Level 3 in Health & Social Care and experience as a Senior Support Worker. Responsibilities include assisting the manager, allocating shifts, and supporting clients to gain independence in their daily lives. Join us in making a real difference today and enjoy a rewarding career with opportunities for training and progression.

Benefits

Enhanced evening and weekend pay

Premium overtime rates

Wagestream for pay flexibility

Funded Blue Light Card

24/7/365 doctor line

Access to cash plans

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Senior Support Worker is required.
• Level 3 in Health & Social Care is essential.
• Experience working with individuals needing enhanced support.

Responsibilities

• Help people gain independence in daily living.
• Assist the Manager with the day-to-day supervision and management of the service.
• Allocate shifts and book training sessions.
• Induct new colleagues and supervise their work.
• Order medication and help individuals manage finances.

Skills

Experience as a Senior Support Worker

Level 3 in Health & Social Care

Experience with individuals requiring enhanced support

Understanding of behaviours of distress

Knowledge of autism

Experience with forensic histories

Ability to support individuals who have experienced trauma

Education

Level 3 in Health & Social Care

Job description

Senior Support Worker

Location: Holt Trowbridge

**Please note Holt does not have reliable public transport so you will require some method of your own transport to get here**

Pay Rate and Typical Shifts

Pay Rate starts at: £13.34

Typical Shifts are: 7am-14:30, 13:00-21:00 on a rota basis Monday – Sunday.

Benefits & Rewards

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)
• 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 with 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
• Long service awards

About the Role

Senior Support Workers with a passion for enhancing the quality of life of the people we support are at the heart of our management teams. We’re currently searching for a fantastic Senior Support Worker to join us in leading our residential service. This service is a welcoming and friendly environment with a dynamic team that supports a fantastic group of people!

As a Senior Support Worker with us you’ll be helping people to gain more independence in their daily lives, whilst assisting the Manager with the day-to-day supervision and management of the service. You could be allocating shifts, booking in training, inducting new colleagues, supporting with supervision’s, ordering medication and ensuring the people we support are supported to manage their finances.

Responsibilities

• Help people gain independence in daily living.
• Assist the Manager with day-to-day supervision and management of the service.
• Allocate shifts.
• Book training sessions.
• Induct new colleagues.
• Provide support with supervision.
• Order medication.
• Ensure the people we support manage their finances.

Qualifications and Experience

We’re interested in our Senior Support Workers having both the right experience and the right values. This is why at this service our Seniors should have previous experience as a Senior Support Worker and a Level 3 in Health & Social Care as well as experience working with individuals requiring enhanced support, including behaviours of distress, autism, forensic histories 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.

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.