Senior Support Worker

Mtnfin; Salford; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Senior Support Worker to join their vibrant team in Salford. This role involves providing essential personal care and support to individuals with diverse needs, ensuring they achieve their personal goals. You will work closely with service users, families, and professionals to maximize outcomes and manage staff training and development. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those you support while working in a passionate and inclusive environment that values professional growth and development.

Benefits

Competitive Pay

Pension Contribution

28 Days Annual Leave

Enhanced Maternity Leave

Employee Support Programmes

Additional Day Off on Birthday

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years' experience in care and support.
• Experience in supervising staff teams is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care and support to service users.
• Manage and train staff, ensuring quality assurance.

Skills

Personal Care

Medication Administration

Staff Supervision

Flexible Working

Education

Level 3 in Health and Social Care

Job description

Join to apply for the Senior Support Worker role at Mountain Financial Printing & Design Group.

Creative Support is a national, fast-growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs. We have a new exciting role for a Senior Support Worker to join our team in Salford.

We are looking for a motivated, resourceful and experienced individual to work in our Intensive Support Services in Salford. We provide support across 2 shared supported living services and 4 flats in the Salford area. We support service users who have a range of needs including learning disabilities and intensive support needs. These are fantastic services that enable great outcomes for the people we support.

We are looking for staff who have the commitment and dedication to go the extra mile to enable people to achieve their personal goals. We provide an empowering model of support to individuals with learning and intensive support needs, enabling them to lead fulfilling and happy lives. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to be involved in the running of vibrant homely services where we adopt a Positive Behaviour Support Model with input from our dedicated PBS Team.

Your Role Will Include:

• Providing respectful personal care, administering medication and supporting service users with daily domestic tasks such as cooking/cleaning.
• Maximising service user outcomes by working closely with the service user, their family and friends, staff and involved professionals such as the PBS Team.
• Developing and managing staff, including staff training, supervision and appraisal.
• Supporting managers with business planning and service developments.
• Supporting managers with Quality Assurance and CQC compliance.

A minimum of two years' experience of providing care and support to people with support needs and a level 3 in Health and Social Care is essential. You should have experience of supporting and supervising a staff team. You must be willing to work flexibly on a rota according to the needs of the service including sleep-ins.

Benefits Of Working With Creative Support:

We offer all employees competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave. As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff, we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS. Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.

Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however, we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK - Please be aware we are currently at full capacity with our Visa Sponsor Licenses, therefore we are not accepting applicants who are seeking sponsorship.

We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.

We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage; previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.

Application Instructions:

In order to apply, please read the job description and then complete the online application form using the links above.

You can also download a copy of our application form using the links above. Completed Application Forms must be submitted to our Head Office address (below) or emailed to be considered for the vacancy. If you have not received a response to your application within 10 working days of the closing date please accept this as notification of an unsuccessful application. Unsuccessful applicants must wait 6 months before reapplying.

If you require any advice on completing your application form, please call us on 0161 236 0829.

Recruitment Department, Creative Support Ltd, Wellington House, 131 Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK1 3TS.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other
• Industries
• Individual and Family Services