Support Worker

Voyage Care; Newton Aycliffe; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced evening and weekend pay

Premium overtime rates

Stream pay option

Blue Light Card

24/7 doctor line

Cash plans

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Job summary

Voyage Care in Newton Aycliffe is seeking a dedicated Support Worker to help people gain independence and quality of life. You’ll work as part of a dynamic team in a residential setting, delivering practical support with empathy and respect.

Role emphasizes personal care, life skills coaching, community access, and engaging activities; driving license is required for the role, and there are extensive benefits including enhanced pay, overtime rates, and wellbeing supports.

Qualifications

• Full UK driving license required.
• Resilient, flexible, and composed in approach.
• Experience supporting individuals with learning and physical disabilities (moderate to severe).

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal care and daily living activities.
• Support independence through life skills training.
• Encourage community access and social activities.
• Work within a team to deliver quality care.
• Maintain respectful, person-centered approach.

Skills

Driving license

Resilience

Flexibility

Disability support experience

Job description

Support Worker - Newton Aycliffe - £12.72 per hour

Days and Nights available.

Typical Shifts are: Nights

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 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 Newton Aycliffe is a welcoming and friendly environment. We are situated close to Newton Aycliffe town centre which has shops, cafes, a leisure centre and a library.

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, watching films or going to the cinema.

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.

For this role , a support worker would be required to hold a full UK driving license, be resilient, flexible and composed in their approach and have experience with supporting individuals with moderate to severe learning and physical disabilities.

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 help enhance your existing 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 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.