Support Worker

Voyage-Care; Woodthorpe; On-site; GBP 354,000 - 708,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced evening and weekend pay

Overtime premium

Blue Light Card

Doctor line

Cash plans

Retirement leave

Long service awards

Job summary

Voyage-Care is recruiting a Mental Health Support Worker to join our new supported living service in Mapperley Nottinghamshire. You will support nine individuals with mental health conditions, promoting independence and recovery within a dynamic team.

Shifts run from 7:30am to 10pm with sleep-ins required; pay is £12.84 per hour, and a range of benefits including enhanced pay for evenings and weekends, overtime premiums, and access to wellbeing and career development support.

Job description

Mental Health Support Worker
Location: Mapperley

Shift times - between 7.30am to 10pm (shift times may vary on opening) Sleep ins will also be required as part of this role
Pay Rate: £12.84

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 Support Workers with a passion for enhancing the quality of life of the people we support to join our new team in Nottinghamshire. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our a new supported living service for people with mental health conditions, delivering recovery focused support.

As a Support Worker with us, you'll be enabling people to gain more independence in their daily lives, whilst working within a dynamic team to support 9 individuals with mental health conditions.

Our supported living service is a welcoming and friendly environment and you can be sure that no two days will be the same! You’ll be promoting personal growth through supporting people to build skills and increase independence with clear, achievable steps that reflect the person’s strengths, aspirations and recovery goals.

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 progress on their road to recovery.

We’re interested in our Support Workers having both the right experience, compassion and trauma informed values. This is why at this service our Support Workers should be resilient, flexible and composed in their approach, have experience in delivering recovery-orientated practice, as well as a commitment to enabling strength-based approaches.

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 colleagues 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.