Support Worker

Voyage-Care; Wiveliscombe; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wagestream

Blue Light Card

24/7 Doctor line

Cash plans for colleagues

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Job summary

Voyage Care is hiring a Support Worker in Wiveliscombe. You will help residents with daily living, encourage independence, and support community access in a close-knit team.

Role involves following care plans for individuals with learning disabilities and complex needs, requiring empathy, resilience, and flexible scheduling in a residential setting. DBS checks apply.

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence required.
• Experience supporting people with learning disabilities or complex needs is preferred.
• Ability to follow positive behaviour support plans and reflect on practice.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal care and daily living activities.
• Encourage community access and participation in activities.
• Support independence and confidence building in residents.
• Work collaboratively within a residential care team.

Skills

Full UK driving licence

Positive Behaviour Support

Reflective practice

Experience with enhanced support needs

Team collaboration

Job description

Support Worker – Wiveliscombe - £13.56 up to £15.06 with overtime and evening/weekend enhancements (Ts & Cs apply)

Typical Shifts are: 08:00 - 20:30 working 3 shifts a week including alternate weekends

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 is a grade two listed building set in the beautiful rural location of Wiveliscombe. With its own orchard, log cabin art hub and pond, you can be sure that no two days will be the same! You’ll be enhancing the lives of people we support who are living with learning disabilities and complex care needs. Your day will include assisting with personal care, encouraging them to access their local community, socialize and have fun with all manner of different activities.

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 requiring enhanced support, including behaviour's of distress, mental health conditions, autism and people who have experienced trauma.

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