Support Worker

Voyage-Care; Lowestoft; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wagestream

Blue Light Card

24/7 doctor line

Enhanced retirement leave

Job summary

Voyage-Care is seeking a dedicated Support Worker for our Lowestoft service. This is a full and part time role (22.5-35 hours) with shifts 7am-2:30pm, 2:30pm-10pm and 10pm-8am including sleep-ins, offering £13.89–£14.89 per hour with overtime and evening/weekend enhancements.

You will help people gain independence, teach life skills, support with personal care, and encourage community involvement within a friendly, motivated team.

Qualifications

• Must have caring, experienced, hands-on approach.
• Experience with Positive Behaviour Support plans and reflective practice.
• Experience working with individuals requiring enhanced support including trauma.

Responsibilities

• Help people gain independence and teach life skills.
• Assist with personal care and encourage community involvement.
• Work within a supportive team to deliver high quality care.

Job description

Support Worker – Lowestoft £13.89 ph up to £14.89 ph with overtime and evening/weekend enhancements (Ts & Cs apply)

We have full and part time opportunities available (22.5-35 hours)

Typical Shifts are: 7am-2:30pm. 2:30pm-10pm. 10pm-8am- Sleep ins

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

We’re on the hunt for genuinely caring, experienced, hands‑on male 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 Bradwell is a welcoming and friendly environment and you can be sure that no two days will be the same! You’ll enhancing the lives of the people we support by teaching them new life skills, assisting with personal care, encouraging 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 area or on trips , the next you could be unwinding with them doing activities of both the choice in 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 learning a new skill!

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

Why choose us?

We embrace people’s differences and encourage you to Be You!

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, 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