Support Worker - Leeds - Daniel Yorath House

Brainkind; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 12,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Company Pension

Group Life Assurance

Eye Voucher Scheme

Free Parking

Long Service and Staff Awards

Job summary

Brainkind is a charity in the Leeds area providing care, rehabilitation and support for people with brain injuries. The role involves giving support to service users tailored to their individual needs, helping them lead a full and valued life and enabling participation in the local community.

Based at Victoria House, Garforth/Leeds, the position is full time (35 hours per week) with a salary up to £14.21 per hour. We offer training, excellent support, a pension, and staff benefits.

Qualifications

• Excellent face-to-face communication skills and a good standard of literacy.
• Strong time management skills and ability to prioritise workload.
• Empathy for residents with positivity, patience and resilience.
• Dignified, boundaried manner with ability to keep own counsel.
• Experience in moving and handling including hoists.

Responsibilities

• To provide support to service users appropriate to their individual needs so they lead a full and valued life.
• To contribute to a homely environment with maximum involvement of service users in activities and decisions.
• To enable service users to participate in and contribute to the local community.

Job description

Daniel Yorath House, 1 Shaw Cl, Garforth, Leeds LS25 2HA, UK

Job Description

Posted Thursday, 3 September 2026 at 00:00

Salary: up to £14.21 per hour

Hours: Full time - 35 hours

Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals.Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you’ll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

Victoria House is a beautiful service situated on the bank of the Humber and provides accommodation, support, and care for people with brain injury and complex needs. It is part of Brainkind, a leading national charity, providing innovative care, rehabilitation, and support solutions for people with profound physical impairments, acquired brain injury.

You will get huge job satisfaction from seeing the people you are supporting do more for themselves and live the life they want to live. If you are interested in building a career, we are here to support you all the way on your own journey.

Role Overview:

• To provide support to our service users appropriate to their individuals needs ensuring that each service user leads a full and valued life.
• To contribute to providing a homely environment, whereby the service user has maximum involvement in their own activities and decision making.
• To enable service users to participate in and contribute to the local community

Key Responsibilities:

• Boundaried, dignified and able to keep own counsel.
• Have genuine empathy for our residents, with the positivity, patience, and resilience to support them through the challenging times of their rehabilitation.
• Enjoy teamwork and take pride in getting a job done well alongside your colleagues.
• Have excellent face to face communication skills and a good standard of literacy.
• Have good time management skills and the ability to prioritise your own workload.
• Have experience in moving and handling including hoists.
• Enjoys providing people with good quality care
• Understands the importance of person centred night checks, security and providing basic night care support such as repositioning.
• A competitive rate of up to £14.21 per hour
• Buy/Sell up to 5 days Annual Leave per year
• Health Cash Plan (from June)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and Support
• Company Pension
• Group Life Assurance
• Eye Voucher Scheme
• Long Service and Staff Awards
• Free Parking

We also put a big focus on employee wellbeing and support. It matters to us that you feel at your best. Career development is a priority. We will ensure you get all the training and learning opportunities you need to achieve your goals.

*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks*

Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It’s a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.

Daniel Yorath House, 1 Shaw Cl, Garforth, Leeds LS25 2HA, UK