Senior Support Worker

Beyond Limits; Honiton; Hybrid; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Award Winning Pension Scheme

Company sick pay scheme

Excellent annual leave

Life Insurance

Critical Illness cover

Induction and ongoing training

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Beyond Limits is recruiting a Senior Support Worker to join our established team in supporting Clair to live her best life. The role involves working closely with the Team Leader, covering shifts, and stepping in during absences while providing compassionate, person-centred care.

The ideal candidate has leadership potential or prior experience in care, a mature outlook, and a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development through our induction and training programs.

Qualifications

• Must have some leadership experience or a desire to lead within a care setting.
• Ability to work with a team and support the Team Leader.
• Keen to learn and develop skills through induction and ongoing training.

Responsibilities

• Support Clair to live her best life
• Work alongside the Team Leader and colleagues
• Cover shifts and step up when the Team Leader is away
• Participate in shadow shifts and benefit from a comprehensive induction

Skills

Leadership

Life experience

Mature outlook

Willingness to develop

Job description

Clair loves a bargain from a charity shop and she enjoys socialising at her local club and entering competitions. She is very good at crosswords and other quizzes and is an expert on the 80’s era.

Clair has Asperger’s and can find the world a little confusing at times. She has spent long periods in institutional care and is still getting used to having her own home. She has an experienced support team around her but a vacancy has just opened up for a Senior Support Worker.

Contract hours: 22.5h per week

Clair is looking for someone who has some life experience and a mature outlook on life. Ideally you will have some previous experience in a leadership capacity or an experienced support worker and someone who is keen on learning and developing your skills. This is an established team with experienced team members, you will have the opportunity to do some shadow shifts and we offer a comprehensive induction with ongoing personal and professional development training.

As the Senior Support Worker you will be responsible to work along side with the Team Leader and with the rest of the team to support Clair to live her best life. She has a lot of potential and just needs positivity to achieve her dreams and aspirations. Your Senior Support Worker duties will include working shifts and step up when the Team Leader is away helping in his tasks.

This position is ideal for someone who is looking to work with an organisation that works differently and someone who wants to develop. Beyond Limits has an outstanding reputation for the work it does and you will be offered every opportunity to succeed in this role.

Benefits:

We reward our staff with competitive salaries

We offer an Award Winning Pension Scheme

We have a company sick pay scheme

Excellent annual leave allowance, including top up pay

Critical Illness cover, reassurance when you need it the most

Life Insurance, reassurance for your family when they need it the most

A really good mandatory induction

Ongoing high quality training

Career development opportunities

A real chance to make a difference to someone’s life

"Sponsorship is currently not available"

We are committed to recruiting candidates who share our commitment to safeguarding, and therefore we apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that the people selected are right for the job, and that all candidates are appropriately screened prior to appointment, including obtaining references and DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) clearance. A DBS check will be requested in the event of the individual being offered a position with Beyond Limits, the cost of which will be to the employee, however, this will be returned after successful completion of probation period (3 months).