Senior Support Worker

Voyage Care; Trowbridge; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Evening/weekend pay

Overtime premium

Wagestream

Blue Light Card

Doctor line

Cash plans

Retirement leave

Long service awards

Job summary

Voyage Care in Holt, near Trowbridge, seeks a Senior Support Worker to lead our residential service. You will supervise the team, support individuals to gain independence, and help with day-to-day management. This role includes shift allocation, induction, and ensuring safe care delivery.

The role requires previous Senior Support Worker experience and a Level 3 in Health & Social Care, with safeguarding DBS checks. An opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives is offered.

Qualifications

• Experience as Senior Support Worker in a residential care setting.
• Ability to support independence and daily living skills.
• DBS checks and safeguarding awareness required.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day supervision and management of the residential service.
• Allocate shifts, train and induct new colleagues, and oversee staff development.
• Support people to gain independence and help meet individual goals.
• Assist with medication ordering and ensuring safe delivery of care.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Health & Social Care Level 3

Job description

Senior Support Worker

Location: Holt, Near Trowbridge

Pay rate starts at: £13.84

Contact: 28hrs PW

Typical Shifts are a mixture of: 7am - 2pm and 2pm - 9pm Monday to Sunday

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. 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. This is why at this service our Seniors should have previous experience as a Senior Support Worker and a Level 3 in Health & Social Care as well as experience working with individuals with autism, complex individuals with mental health needs, traumatic backgrounds and challenging behaviours.

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 …

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.

All applicants and subsequent job offers will be subject to satisfactory DBS checks and references