Senior Support Worker

Voyage Care; St Albans; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Voyage Care as a Senior Support Worker in St Albans, where you will play a crucial role in enhancing the quality of life for individuals in a residential service. Your responsibilities will include assisting with management tasks, helping people achieve independence, and fostering a supportive environment. This position offers opportunities for personal and professional growth through a comprehensive training program, and rewards for your dedication through enhanced pay and benefits.

Benefits

Enhanced evening and weekend pay

Premium overtime rates

Wagestream access

Funded Blue Light Card

24/7/365 doctor line

Cash plans for colleagues

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Support Worker preferred.
• Values-driven with a passion for enhancing quality of life.
• Experience in management or supervisory roles is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Manager with day-to-day supervision and management.
• Help people gain independence in their daily lives.
• Allocate shifts, book training, and support new colleagues.

Skills

Compassion

Team Leadership

Communication

Job description

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Senior Support Worker St Albans Payrate £13.29 per hour

Typical Shifts are: 07:00 - 14:30 / 13:30 - 21:30

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)
Wagestream 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.
24/7/365 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 our residential service in St Albans. 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.

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.