Support Worker

Voyage Care; Leverington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in Leverington is seeking compassionate Support Workers to enhance the quality of life for individuals. This role involves providing hands-on support, teaching life skills, and assisting with personal care. Candidates should possess resilience, flexibility, and experience with Positive Behaviour Support plans. The position offers competitive pay, overtime enhancements, and a range of staff benefits including training and career progression opportunities. If you want to make a real difference in someone's life, apply today!

Benefits

Enhanced evening and weekend pay

Premium overtime rates

Wagestream service

Funded Blue Light Card

24/7 doctor line

Cash plans for colleagues and families

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Passion for enhancing the quality of life of individuals.
• Experience working in care or support roles.
• Ability to teach life skills and assist with personal care.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals in gaining independence in daily life.
• Teach new life skills and assist with personal care.
• Encourage social interaction and activities.

Skills

Experience with Positive Behaviour Support plans

Experience with individuals with autism

Resilience

Flexibility

Composed approach

Job description

Support Worker

£12.55 up to £14.05 with overtime and evening/weekend enhancements (Ts & Cs apply)

Town: Leverington Wisbech

Typical Shifts are Sat-Sun -7.30am-2.30pm and 2.30pm-9.30pm

UK Manual DL required

What we offer

• 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

About the role

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 supported living service in Leverington 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 community, the next you could be unwinding with them doing arts and crafts.

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.

Responsibilities

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, have experience with following Positive Behaviour Support plans and reflective practice as well as experience working with individuals with autism.

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