Senior Support Worker

Cygnet Group; Salford; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Cygnet Lodge Salford invites applications for a Senior Support Worker. This full-time role (42 hours weekly) involves 12-hour shifts across days, nights and weekends at the Salford site, supporting women in a high-support inpatient rehab setting with complex needs.

You will provide compassionate care, monitor welfare, and contribute to day-to-day service operations while maintaining safety and wellbeing for residents and staff alike.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health care.
• Excellent communication skills and team collaboration.
• Willingness to develop leadership and management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach to all individuals in our care.
• Provide guidance & encouragement through physical & emotional support.
• Learn about individuals’ specific needs & provide help in the most appropriate way.
• Assist with medical & welfare needs & report as required.
• Support management in the day-to-day running of the service.
• Undertake supervisory & administrative responsibilities.
• Safeguard
• Maintain a safe and clean environment for all.

Skills

Mental health care

Communication

Teamwork

Leadership

Empowerment

Organisation

Job description

Helping others improve and turn their lives around – there’s no better feeling. It’s what we do for thousands of people at more than 150 sites across the UK. Be a part of it.

We are looking for confident Senior Support Worker with a passion for delivering outstanding care.

You’ll be working a full time contract (42 hours per week) with 12 hour shifts across both days, nights & Weekends at Cygnet Lodge Salford.

Cygnet Lodge Salford is a high support inpatient rehabilitation (level 2) service for women. The service supports 24 individuals with a primary diagnosis of mental illness, but they may also have a complex secondary diagnosis, including a personality disorder

Your Day-to-Day…

• Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach to all individuals in our care
• Provide guidance & encouragement through physical & emotional support
• Learn about individuals’ specific needs & provide help in the most appropriate way
• Assist with medical & welfare needs & report as required
• Support management in the day-to-day running of the service
• Undertake supervisory & administrative responsibilities
• Safeguard
• Maintain a safe and clean environment for all.

You are…

• An experienced Support Worker in mental health care, ready to step up to a new challenge
• Genuinely driven to make a difference in people’s lives
• Confident, assertive & ambitious for yourself, service users & the organisation
• An excellent communicator & good team player
• Sensitive & intuitive with the energy required to provide a trusting, stimulating & varied environment
• Able to empower & support service user independence
• Organised, committed & keen to develop your management & leadership skills.

Why Cygnet? We’ll offer you…

• Salary: £14.23 per hour
• Opportunities to undertake further learning & career development
• Flexible working with opportunities for overtime
• Regular coaching & appraisal
• Expert supervision & peer support
• Employee discount savings & Cycle to Work scheme
• Recruitment referrals
• Wellbeing centre with exercises, recipes, financial & mental health advice.

Please note, successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.