Senior Support Worker

Salutem Care And Education; Torquay; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading care organization as a Senior Support Worker, where you'll provide essential support to adults in residential services. This role offers flexible shifts, career progression, and a chance to make a meaningful impact in people's lives. With a strong focus on wellbeing, you'll benefit from a comprehensive perks package and opportunities for personal growth.

Benefits

Blue Light Card

Wagestream

Sovereign Health Care Plan

Group Life Assurance

Free DBS check

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a support role required.
• Ability to provide daily support to adults in residential services.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day activities, care plans, and reviews.
• Ensure health, welfare, education, and development of individuals.

Skills

Support

Empathy

Job description

About The Company
At Salutem, we aim to create a nurturing environment where children receive the highest quality of care from our dedicated team. Our core values drive our exceptional services:

Our Core Values:
️Supportive: Helping everyone reach their full potential.
️Ambitious: Striving for the best outcomes.
️Loyal: Prioritising our staff and the people we support.
️Unique: Innovating without compromising quality.
️Transparent: Fostering openness and mutual respect.
️Engaging: Partnering with everyone involved.
️Meaningful: Offering fulfilling opportunities.

Why Choose Us?
Emotional Support: 24/7 Employee Assistance, mental health resources, meditation apps, and bereavement support.
Medical Support: Free Online GP access, Health Cash Plan, Cancer Cover, and Menopause support.
Financial Support: Flexible pay with Wagestream, utility bill savings, Money Helper, and Life Assurance.
Physical Support: Online workouts, Cycle to Work scheme, gym discounts, and National Trust activities.

More about Salutem:
Top Employer Recognition: Salutem Care and Education proudly stands among the UK's top employers, as acknowledged by the Top Employers Institute.
Disability Confident Organisation: We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and application process.
Top 50 Inspiring Workplace: Recognised for our unwavering commitment to a People First culture, blending culture, purpose, leadership, wellbeing, inclusion, employee voice, and experience.

About The Role
As a Senior you’ll join us with previous experience in a support role, and able to hit the ground running. Thanks to your support with day to day activities, care plans and reviews, you’ll help us make a difference to the lives of the individuals we support.
Our Senior Support Workers are there to ensure the health, welfare, education and development of the people we support is promoted at each step of their journey.
Now we've shared a glimpse of what it's like to work for us, let us introduce ourselves. We’re Salutem and we are committed to making a positive impact on the lives of thousands of children and adults in England and Wales across our residential homes, schools and day centres. Our dedicated support teams empower individuals to overcome any obstacles and live the life they choose.
Each day will be different, and the main focus of your role is to provide daily support to adults in our residential services. It’s definitely not a normal 9-5, you can work days, nights, and flexible shifts too. Talking of ‘dream’ jobs, some of our shifts are sleep-ins!
We want the best for everyone we support and that's what makes us a family. If you have the ability to support someone to feel at home, be their true self, and do what makes their heart happy - we want to hear from you. This is a meaningful role and will suit someone who is looking to make a difference and make memories that'll last a lifetime.
We know our staff put 100% into building brighter futures for the individuals we support. That's why we offer career progression no matter where you start in the organisation. Your progress here will be regularly reviewed and as you gain expertise your rate of pay will increase. We believe in creating a Career from Care and we want the support workers we recruit now to become our managers of the future!
We’re committed to supporting the wellbeing of our team and our benefits package has something for everyone – including these key highlights:
- Competency Frameworks and Pay Scales – We have a development and reward initiative in place for all our individual colleagues and teams, showing clear career pathways, progression & promotion opportunities, and pay scales to work towards if desired.
- Blue Light Card – Working in social care, all our staff qualify for thousands of discounts in shops, restaurants, and venues on the high street with a Blue Light Card. You can register to get 2-years access to the Blue Light Card for £4.99 and reclaim this cost via our expenses process.
- Wagestream - Any day can be payday with Wagestream, as you can withdraw some of your wages earned early.*
- Care Friends, Refer-a-Friend Scheme – Instantly earn points and cash rewards for referring people you know for roles at Salutem.
- Sovereign Health Care Plan – Affordable cover to help with your healthcare and private medical costs.
- Canada Life, Group Life Assurance - To protect all our staff from day one of employment, we provide a Death in Service benefit via Canada Life, which is offered at 1 x your annual salary.
- Blink, our internal communications app - Giving you a voice and a sense of community across the organisation.
- Pension scheme - for all qualifying staff
- Free DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service)

As an organisation, we're committed to supporting our teams and offering a range of perks that look after your financial, mental, emotional and physical wellbeing.

*Terms and conditions apply.
We have a massive duty of care towards those we support who are often the most vulnerable in society, which is why our staff are encouraged to keep up to date with vaccines and focus on self-care too.