Support Worker

Voyage Care; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Voyage Care is seeking passionate Female Support Workers to join their dynamic team in Caldecote. In this role, you will make a significant impact on individuals' lives by fostering independence and teaching daily living skills. With robust training and career progression opportunities, you’ll become an essential part of a supportive and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Enhanced pay for evenings and weekends

Premium overtime rates

Wagestream access

Funded Blue Light Card

24/7 doctor line

Cash plans for colleagues' families

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Experience following Positive Behaviour Support plans.
• Experience in reflective practice.
• Caring and passionate nature.

Responsibilities

• Enhancing quality of life for supported individuals.
• Assisting with daily activities and personal care.
• Encouraging community engagement and social activities.

Skills

Resilience

Flexibility

Composure

Experience with autism

Experience with physical disabilities

Experience with complex care needs

Education

Full UK driving license

Job description

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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, 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 Caldecote 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 going swimming or assisting them with 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.

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 hold a full UK driving license, 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 ,and physical disabilities and complex care 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.

* 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