Support Worker

VOYAGE CARE; Bomarsund; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wagestream

Blue Light Card

Doctor line

Cash plans for family

Retirement leave

Long service awards

Enhanced evening/weekend pay

Job summary

Voyage Care is seeking a Senior Support Worker to help residents gain independence and support daily service management. You will assist with supervision, shift allocations, training, inductions, and medication ordering while ensuring financial management support for individuals.

Candidates should have Senior Support Worker experience, Level 3 Health & Social Care, and experience with challenging behaviours, autism, trauma, and forensic histories.

Qualifications

• Must have Level 3 Health & Social Care.
• Experience handling individuals needing enhanced support and complex needs.
• Willingness to work with behaviours of distress, autism, forensic histories and trauma.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Manager with day-to-day supervision and service management.
• Allocate shifts and book in training.

Skills

Driving licence

Own vehicle

Experience with distress behaviours

Autism

Trauma support experience

Education

Level 3 Health & Social Care

Job description

Due to the location of this service you will require your own vehicle to get here, we also require you to have held a UK driving licence for 1 year and be over 21yrs old for insurance purposes, 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.

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 requiring enhanced support, including behaviour's of distress, autism, forensic histories and people who have experienced trauma.

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.

Payrate - £14.27 to £15.77 per hour with overtime and evening/weekend enhancements (Ts & Cs apply) Typical Shifts are: 7am - 19:30 or 8am - 20:30

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