Support Worker

Voyage Care; Dalton Magna; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced evening and weekend pay 50p

Premium overtime £1 per hour

Blue Light Card discounts

24/7 doctor line

Cash plans for colleagues

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Job summary

Voyage Care is seeking a Female Support Worker for Sunnyside, Rotherham. You will help adults gain independence, support daily living, personal care and community access in a friendly residential service.

The role emphasises a caring, resilient and flexible approach, with opportunities for training and career progression. A DBS check will be completed; shifts include evenings and weekends; starting rate £12.72 per hour.

Qualifications

• We’re seeking genuinely caring, hands-on individuals with a passion for improving quality of life.
• Candidates should be resilient, flexible and composed in their approach.
• Willingness to support individuals with enhanced needs including behavioural distress, complex needs, autism or trauma.

Responsibilities

• Help people gain more independence in daily living and develop life skills.
• Assist with personal care and encourage community access and social activities.
• Work within a dynamic team to support a group of individuals in a residential setting.
• Engage in activities with individuals in and out of the service, including outings and in-house activities.

Skills

Caring

Resilient

Flexible

Composed

Job description

Female Support Worker – Sunnyside, Rotherham - £12.72 ph

Typical Shifts are: Mixed Shifts

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)
• Stream – 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

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 be helping people to gain more independence in their daily lives, whilst working within a dynamic team to support a fantastic group of people!

Our residential service in Rotherham is a welcoming and friendly environment and you can be sure that no two days will be the same! You’ll be enhancing the lives of the people we support by teaching them new life skills, assisting with personal care, encouraging them to access their local communities, socialising and doing lots of activities. One day you could be out with the people we support in the local community , the next you could be unwinding with them playing games, watching films or doing activities of their choice in the service.

This is an amazing role for someone who is looking to really make a difference to someone's life and to 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, be resilient, flexible and composed in their approach, as well as willingness to support individuals requiring enhanced support, including behaviour's of distress,complex needs , physical disabilities autism and people who may have experienced trauma.

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’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.

We have a fantastic range of benefits for our staff and we 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