Support Worker

Direct Channel Holdings (PTY) LTD; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Support Worker, where your caring nature can truly shine! In this rewarding role, you'll help individuals gain independence and improve their quality of life through personal care and community engagement. With a focus on training and career progression, this position offers a chance to make a significant impact while enjoying enhanced pay and a range of benefits. If you're passionate about making a difference and eager to grow in your career, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits

Enhanced evening and weekend pay

Premium overtime rates

Wagestream access

Funded Blue Light Card

24/7 doctor line

Access to cash plans

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Experience with individuals with autism and complex care needs.
• Full UK driving license is required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Enhance the lives of individuals by teaching new life skills.
• Assist with personal care and encourage community access.

Skills

Empathy

Resilience

Flexibility

Experience with autism

Positive Behaviour Support

Personal care assistance

Job description

Support Worker

Town: Cambridge Caldecote - £11.78ph

Typical Shifts are: 7am-2pm and 2pm-9pm

Join Voyage Care and feel valued. We reward your dedication with:

1. Enhanced evening and weekend pay at an additional 50p per hour (Ts & Cs apply)
2. Premium overtime rates at an additional £1 per hour (Ts & Cs apply)
3. Wagestream – giving you the flexibility to draw upon up to 40% of your pay as it is earned
4. Funded Blue Light Card – hundreds of discounts at high street retailers
5. 24/7/365 doctor line for our colleagues and their families
6. Access to cash plans for our colleagues, which also covers their families
7. Enhanced retirement leave
8. Long service awards

We’re on the hunt for genuinely caring, hands-on Female* Support Workers with a passion for enhancing the quality of life of the people we support. As a Support Worker with us, you'll help people gain more independence in their daily lives, while working within a dynamic team to support a fantastic group of individuals!

Our supported living service in Caldecote is a welcoming and friendly environment, and you can be sure that no two days will be the same! You’ll enhance the lives of the people we support by teaching them new life skills, assisting with personal care, encouraging them to access their local communities, socializing, and doing lots of activities. One day you could be out with the people we support in the community going swimming or assisting them with arts and crafts.

This is an amazing role for someone who is looking to really make a difference in someone's life and help them grow in confidence and independence so that they meet their goals, whether this be making dinner by themselves or going on holiday.

We’re interested in our Support Workers having both the right experience and the right values. This is why at this service, our Support Workers should hold a full UK driving license, be resilient, flexible, and composed in their approach, have experience with following Positive Behaviour Support plans and reflective practice, as well as experience working with individuals with autism, physical disabilities, and complex care needs.

Why choose us?

We embrace people’s differences and encourage you to be yourself. As long as you’ve got the passion to make someone’s life better, we can provide 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 opportunities for promotion and progression, as well as job security in a sector-leading organisation.

We have a fantastic range of benefits for our staff and offer sector-leading career progression, so 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.

* Some of our roles require male or female employees only, where this is indicated it is a genuine occupational requirement, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.