Senior Support Worker

The Methodist Church in Britain; Salford; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunités d'apprentissage et de dév

Flexible working with overtime

Regular coaching and appraisal

Expert supervision

Wellbeing centre and support resources

Job summary

Cygnet Lodge Salford, a high‑support inpatient service for 24 women, is seeking a Senior Support Worker. The role is full‑time (42 hours/week) on 12‑hour day, night and weekend shifts with supervisory duties and admin tasks. Successful applicants must pass an enhanced DBS check.

You will deliver personalised care, support mental health needs, safeguard residents, and contribute to the daily running of the service while pursuing leadership development and career progression.

Qualifications

• Experienced support worker in mental health care, ready to step up to a new challenge.

Responsibilities

• Deliver enhanced, individualised care with a flexible learning approach to each person in the service
• Give physical and emotional support, guidance and encouragement
• Learn each individual's specific needs and meet them in the most appropriate way
• Assist with medical and welfare needs and report as required
• Safeguard individuals in the service
• Support management in the day-to-day running of the service
• Undertake supervisory and administrative responsibilities
• Maintain a safe and clean environment for all

Skills

Excellent communication and good team

Confident, assertive and ambitious

Sensitive and intuitive care

Empower service user independence

Organised and committed

Leadership development interest

Job description

Senior Support Worker post at Cygnet Lodge Salford, a level 2 high support inpatient rehabilitation service for 24 women run by Cygnet Health Care. The work centres on supporting women with mental illness, often with a complex secondary diagnosis such as a personality disorder, through physical and emotional care and safeguarding. It is a full-time post of 42 hours a week on 12-hour day, night and weekend shifts, with supervisory and administrative responsibilities alongside frontline care. Successful applicants must pass an enhanced DBS check.

What the job involves

• Deliver enhanced, individualised care with a flexible learning approach to each person in the service
• Give physical and emotional support, guidance and encouragement
• Learn each individual's specific needs and meet them in the most appropriate way
• Assist with medical and welfare needs and report as required
• Safeguard individuals in the service
• Support management in the day-to-day running of the service
• Undertake supervisory and administrative responsibilities
• Maintain a safe and clean environment for all

What’s required

Experience

• Experienced support worker in mental health care, ready to step up to a new challenge

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent communication and good team working
• Confident, assertive and ambitious for individuals, the service and the organisation
• Sensitive and intuitive, able to create a trusting, stimulating and varied environment
• Able to empower and support service user independence
• Organised and committed
• Keen to develop management and leadership skills

Checks & eligibility

• Enhanced DBS check

Other

• Genuinely driven to make a difference in people's lives

What’s offered

• Opportunities for further learning and career development
• Flexible working with opportunities for overtime
• Regular coaching and appraisal
• Expert supervision and peer support
• Employee discount savings
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Recruitment referrals
• Wellbeing centre with exercises, recipes, and financial and mental health advice