Support Worker

Voyage Care; Melbourn; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in Melbourn is seeking a passionate Support Worker to enhance the quality of life of individuals in residential care. The role involves assisting with personal care, teaching life skills, and enabling community access. Ideal candidates should have experience working with individuals with complex needs, be resilient, and demonstrate flexibility. Join an organization that values diversity and offers excellent training for career progression.

Benefits

Enhanced evening and weekend pay

Premium overtime rates

Wagestream access

Funded Blue Light Card

24/7/365 doctor line

Cash plans for families

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Experience with following Positive Behaviour Support plans.
• Experience working with individuals with autism.
• Resilient, flexible, and composed in approach.

Responsibilities

• Help individuals gain independence in daily lives.
• Assist with personal care and teach new life skills.
• Encourage access to local communities and socializing.

Skills

Resilience

Flexibility

Experience with Positive Behaviour Support plans

Working with individuals with autism

Experience with acquired brain injury

Working with individuals with complex needs

Job description

Overview

Support Worker

Town - Melbourn £12.55

Typical Shifts are Mon - Sun 7am-2pm and 2pm-9pm

Rewards and benefits

• 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

Role summary

We’re on the hunt for genuinely caring, hands-on Support Worker 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!

Service context

Our residential service Bramley Ave in Melbourn 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 and requirements

We’re interested in our Support Workers having both the right experience and the right values. This service requires Support Workers to 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, acquired brain injury, and complex needs.

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.