Support Worker

Home Group; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading support services organization in Peterborough seeks a Support Worker to empower customers with mental health needs. The role involves assisting with daily living tasks, conducting assessments, and engaging with customers to improve their independence. Ideal candidates are passionate about care, adaptable, and tech-savvy. This position offers a competitive salary, great benefits, and opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

34 days leave increasing to 39

Health cash plan

800+ discounts on high street

Opportunities for career growth

Support for colleague wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experience in care or caring for others.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure.
• Willing to adapt working hours as needed.

Responsibilities

• Support customers with daily living tasks.
• Conduct risk assessments and support planning.
• Engage in meaningful conversations with customers.

Skills

Passion for supporting customers

Experience in caring for others

Ability to work independently

Flexibility and personal approach

Technology usage skills

Job description

Support Worker – (251845)

Earn £12.60 per hour (£24,638 per annum) [pro rata] and great benefits including Health Cash Plan.

Peterborough

We can’t offer a CoS for this role

Home, a place where you belong

Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? As our Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have complex mental health needs to develop their skills to live more independently in the community. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!

What you’ll do

• Assisting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.
• Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
• Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
• Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to work together with colleagues too.
• This is more than a job, it’s a place where you feel valued. You get great training, support from friendly colleagues and a chance to make a real difference every day. Be part of one of the UK’s top 10 Great Places to Work!

You have

• Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail
• Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children
• The ability to workon your own initiative, remaincalm under pressure and havea resilient approach
• Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs
• Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.
• Able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10 th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.