Waking Night Support Worker

Beyond Limits; West Alvington; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A supportive care organization is seeking a part-time night team member to assist an individual during overnight shifts. You will support evening and overnight routines, encouraging healthy choices while facilitating personal hygiene and household tasks. The ideal candidate is outgoing, empathetic, and has a good sense of humour. This role provides a chance to positively impact someone's life and offers competitive salaries along with various benefits, including training and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Award Winning Pension Scheme

Company sick pay scheme

Excellent annual leave allowance

Critical Illness cover

Life Insurance

Ongoing high quality training

Qualifications

• Comfortable with lone working, being awake all night, and supporting personal hygiene.
• Collaborative and eager to learn and develop.
• Must relate to Mike's interests.

Responsibilities

• Support Mike with his evening and overnight routine.
• Encourage Mike to make healthy choices.
• Assist with basic cooking and light household tasks.

Skills

Outgoing personality

Good sense of humour

Self-motivated

Empathy and understanding

Great communication skills

Creative thinking

Similar interests to Mike

Good computer skills

Job description

Love nights and a good laugh? Mike does too! He’s looking for a fellow night owl to support him and share the fun along the way.

Contract

Temporary part-time, 12h per week for up to 12 months

Essential Requirements

Must be comfortable with lone working, being awake all night, and supporting with personal hygiene. This is a temporary position to cover maternity.

This is a temporary position to cover maternity for up to 12 months. As a night team member, you’ll be supporting Mike with his evening and overnight routine, offering positive encouragement and helping him make healthy choices. The role includes some basic cooking, light household tasks, and supporting with personal hygiene —always with a focus on encouraging Mike’s involvement and independence.

Mike has a great sense of humour and enjoys chatting and having a laugh with his team. His hobbies include gaming, music of all kinds, treasure hunting, gardening, metal detecting, and watching 80’s cartoons and films. Mike especially values when his team shares his interests—because it helps him feel more connected and engaged.

We’re looking for someone who is collaborative, even when working alone, and eager to keep learning and developing. Mike is autistic with a learning disability and needs support in understanding the ‘why’ and the ‘how’, but the team are there to find creative and unique ways of helping his understanding such as creating a bespoke newspaper that has helped Mike develop, think more about his health, and try new things.

Shifts run from 9pm to 9am, with rotas planned to support a healthy work–life balance. Reliability and responsibility are important, as the team is moving towards being self-directed, where everyone is encouraged to take ownership and when needed.

At the heart of it, this role is about helping Mike have a fulfilling and meaningful life — and knowing that you’ve made a difference by being part of it.

Ideally you will:

• Be outgoing and have a good sense of humour.
• Be highly self-motivated.
• Be willing to learn and develop within your role.
• Be empathetic and understanding towards others.
• Be a great communicator for both Mike and the team.
• Be a creative thinker.
• Have similar interests to Mikes.
• Have good computer skills.

Benefits:

• We reward our staff with competitive salaries
• We offer an Award Winning Pension Scheme
• We have a company sick pay scheme
• Excellent annual leave allowance, including top up pay
• Critical Illness cover, reassurance when you need it the most
• Life Insurance, reassurance for your family when they need it the most
• A really induction
• Ongoing high quality training
• >
• A real chance to make a difference to someone's life

"Sponsorship is currently not available"

We are committed to recruiting candidates who share our commitment to safeguarding, and therefore we apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that the people selected are right for the job, and that all candidates are appropriately screened prior to appointment, including obtaining references and DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) clearance.

A DBS check will be requested in the event of the individual being offered a position with Beyond Limits, the cost of which will be to the employee, however, this will be returned after successful completion of probation period (6 months).