Senior Support Worker

Voyage Care; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced evening and weekend pay

Premium overtime rates

Stream pay access

Job summary

Voyage Care is seeking a Senior Support Worker for Market Warsop. The role involves leading a small team in a purpose-built home that supports adults with learning and physical disabilities, including those with challenging behaviours.

You will assist the Manager with daily supervision and staff scheduling, while helping residents gain greater independence. The position offers a variety of shifts, on-call duties, and opportunities to contribute to a values-driven, supportive environment with

Qualifications

• Senior Support Worker with Level 3 Health & Social Care
• Experience working with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and challenging behaviours
• Ability to support adults to gain more independence

Responsibilities

• Assist the Manager with day-to-day supervision and management of the service
• Allocate shifts, book training, induct new colleagues and support supervision
• Order medication and help people manage their finances
• Ensure the people we support are guided to maintain independence and reach goals

Job description

Senior Support Worker – Market Warsop - £14.34ph

Typical Shifts are: Mix of - 07:15 to 21:45 or 0:715 to 14:45 (early) and 14:45 to 21:30 (late) nights and on-call are also required as part of this role)

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)
• Stream – 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.
• 24/5/365 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

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 23 Church Street, a purpose built home that offers support to ten adults with learning disabilities and complex care needs, including a range of physical care needs and moderate levels of challenging behaviours. 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. You’ll never lose sight of why you choose to do this, as our Seniors are still at the heart of providing day-to-day support.

This is an amazing role for someone who is looking to really make a difference to the lives of others, whether that’s helping our colleagues grow in confidence or the people we support gain independence so that they meet their goals.

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 with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and challenging behaviours.

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.