Senior Support Worker

Cygnet Group; Tipton; On-site; GBP 42,706,000 - 49,594,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £14.23 per hour

Flexible working with overtime

Career's progression and training

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Cygnet Meadow Mews in Tipton is seeking a dedicated Senior Support Worker to join our care team. You will deliver high-quality support to residents, work across days, nights and weekends, and help create a safe, respectful living environment.

This role involves supervising tasks, assisting with medical and welfare needs, and contributing to the ongoing development of the service. A DBS check is required and you will have opportunities for learning and career progression.

Qualifications

• Experienced support worker ready to step up to a new challenge.
• Genuinely driven to make a difference in people's lives.
• Confident, assertive and ambitious for yourself, service users and the organisation.
• Excellent communication skills and a good team player.
• Sensitive and intuitive with energy to provide a trusting, stimulating and varied environment.
• Able to empower and support service user independence.
• Organised, committed and keen to develop your management and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Senior Support Worker

Experienced care

Excellent communicator

Team player

Leadership potential

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.

Cygnet Group are currently looking for a confident Senior Support Worker with a passion for delivering outstanding care to join our team at Cygnet Meadow Mews.

You will be expected to work 42 hours a week (days, night shifts and alternative weekends), making a positive difference to the lives of the people in our care.

The Service:

Meadows Mews is an enhanced community residential service for men with neuropsychiatric or neurodegenerative conditions, who may have behaviours that challenge alongside additional social and complex needs.

Meadows Mews acts as a transitional service from inpatient rehabilitation for those individuals who have been able to progress through the hospital pathway but now require the ability to return to the community; where participation in both social and domestic activities is vital for their quality of life and long term future in the community.

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 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
• Recruitment referrals
• Wellbeing centre with exercises, recipes, financial & mental health advice.

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

What next?

If you care about making a difference - we want to talk to you.