Support Worker

Voyage Care; Todmorden; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in Todmorden seeks a Support Worker to enhance the lives of individuals by promoting independence and teaching life skills. The ideal candidate will have experience with individuals requiring enhanced support and be passionate about making a difference. The position offers competitive pay and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Enhanced pay for evenings and weekends

Premium overtime rates

Funding for Blue Light Card

24/7/365 doctor line

Cash plans for colleagues and families

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Must have experience working with individuals requiring enhanced support.
• Passion for enhancing quality of life essential.
• Genuine caring nature required.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals in daily living and enhance their independence.
• Assist with personal care and teach new life skills.
• Encourage social activities and engagement.

Skills

Caring attitude

Experience with mental health conditions

Flexibility

Resilience

Job description

Support Worker Todmorden - £12.22

Typical Shifts are: 12 hour shift patterns - days and nights - days ranging from 8am onwards

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 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 Todmorden 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 at the cinema , the next you could be unwinding with them doing activities of their choice in the 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 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, be resilient, flexible and composed in their approach, along with experience in working with individuals requiring enhanced support, including behaviour's of distress, mental health conditions, autism and people who have may have experienced trauma.

What you need is a passion for enhancing the quality of life for the people we support, a desire to learn and a genuine caring attitude.

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.