Support Worker-Night

Voyage Care; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced evening and weekend pay

Premium overtime rates

Wagestream

Blue Light Card

Doctor line 24/7

Cash plans

Enhanced retirement leave

Job summary

Voyage Care in Cambridge CB1 area is seeking genuinely caring support workers to help people gain independence, within a supportive team. Typical shifts run 9.30pm–7.30am, with enhanced pay for evenings and weekends and premium overtime rates.

Wagestream and Blue Light Card benefits are available, along with 24/7 doctor lines and flexible financial options. Role focuses on teaching life skills, assisting with personal care, and helping individuals engage with their local community through

Qualifications

• Genuine caring attitude and hands-on approach.
• Willingness to work shifts including evenings and weekends.
• Experience with Positive Behaviour Support plans and reflective practice; autism experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Help people gain more independence in daily living.
• Teach new life skills and support personal care.
• Encourage community access and socialising; participate in activities.
• Work within a dynamic team to support a group of people.
• Occasionally accompany people in the community and during activities like arts and crafts.

Skills

Caring nature

Flexible

Team player

Job description

£13.13 up to £14.63 with overtime and evening/weekend enhancements (Ts & Cs apply)

Town: Cambridge CB1 area

Typical Shifts are Mon -Sun -9.30pm-7.30am

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

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 Suez Rd 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, the next you could be unwinding with them doing 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 , 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,

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, 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