Waking Night Floating Support Worker.

Discovery; Yeovil; Hybrid; GBP 18,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mileage pay

30 days annual leave pro-rata

Salary advance up to 50%

24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance and Pension

Job summary

Discovery is recruiting a Waking Night Floating Support Worker to cover South Somerset. You will work across services, providing night-time support, safety and independence for people with learning disabilities.

The role is field-based, requiring lone-working and travel between homes with a focus on person-centred care. This full-time position offers mileage pay, paid leave, a salary-advance option, and a strong induction programme including Care Certificate and Health & Social Care Diploma.

Qualifications

• Hold a full UK driving licence.
• Have access to your own vehicle for travel across South Somerset.
• Able to travel across South Somerset to support different services.
• Previous experience in social care or support work is preferred.
• Experience with complex needs is desirable.
• Experience working as a lone worker.

Responsibilities

• Provide emotional support and reassurance throughout the night.
• Complete welfare and wellbeing checks.
• Support personal care and maintain dignity.
• Assist with mobility and moving and handling tasks.
• Support with medication administration.
• Promote choice, independence and wellbeing.
• Maintain accurate records and incident documentation.
• Prepare the home for the day ahead and ensure a safe environment.

Skills

Full UK driving licence

Own vehicle

Social care experience

Lone worker

Job description

Location: South Somerset
Pay Rate: £15.54 per hour
Contract: Full-Time
Driving Licence Required: Yes - Essential

Be the Difference When It Matters Most

At Discovery, we're looking for dedicated and adaptable colleagues to join our team as Waking Night Floating Support Workers across South Somerset.

This is a unique and rewarding opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, thrives on responsibility and wants to make a genuine difference to people's lives. As a Peripatetic Support Worker, you'll provide high-quality support across a number of our supported living services, helping to ensure continuity of care and positive outcomes for the people we support.

While you'll work in a different service from night to night depending on operational needs, you'll typically spend each shift within a single home, allowing you to provide consistent, person-centred support throughout the night.

About the Role

As a Waking Night Floating Support Worker, you'll support people with learning disabilities and a range of support needs throughout the night, promoting their safety, wellbeing and independence.

This is a specialist role requiring exceptional flexibility, resilience and adaptability. No two nights are the same. One night you may be supporting a home where people require higher levels of support, whilst the next you could be working with individuals who live relatively independently and simply need reassurance and occasional support during the night.

Working predominantly as a lone worker, you'll need to be confident making decisions, using your initiative and responding appropriately to situations as they arise while maintaining a calm, professional approach.

As travel is a fundamental part of this role, you must be able and willing to work across services throughout South Somerset as required.

The People You'll Support

One of the most rewarding aspects of this role is the opportunity to support a wide range of people, each with their own goals, preferences and support needs.

You may support people who:

• Have learning disabilities and complex support needs
• Require emotional reassurance and encouragement throughout the night
• Experience periods of anxiety or behaviours of distress
• Need support with personal care and maintaining their dignity
• Have mobility needs requiring support in line with training and guidance
• Require assistance with medication administration
• Use different methods of communication, including non-verbal communication and alternative communication methods

Your ability to adapt your approach, build positive relationships and provide person-centred support will be key to your success.

What You'll Be Doing

Support activities may include:

• Providing emotional support, reassurance and guidance throughout the night
• Completing regular welfare and wellbeing checks
• Supporting individuals with personal care where required
• Assisting with mobility and moving and assisting tasks
• Supporting with medication administration
• Promoting choice, dignity, independence and wellbeing
• Responding appropriately to situations that may arise during the night

Alongside direct support, you'll also help maintain a safe and welcoming environment by:

• Completing accurate electronic records and documentation
• Updating support notes and incident reports where required
• Undertaking cleaning and domestic tasks
• Preparing the home for the day ahead
• Following health and safety, medication and organisational procedures

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for people who are:

• Hold a full UK driving licence
• Have access to their own vehicle
• Able to travel across South Somerset to support different services
• Confident working independently and making informed decisions
• Flexible, adaptable and reliable
• Previous experience within social care or support work
• Experience supporting people with complex needs
• Experience as a lone worker
• Knowledge of person-centred support approaches

Most importantly, you’ll be someone who shares our values and is passionate about helping people live fulfilling lives.

• Mileage pay
• 30 days annual leave pro-rata (including bank holidays)
• We offer a salary advance scheme where you can access up to 50% of the money you’ve earned before payday.
• A 24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family members.
• Life Assurance and Pension scheme
• Great Induction and training opportunities including the Care Certificate, and Diploma in Health & Social Care.

This role requires an enhanced DBS Disclosure, which will be obtained for you by Discovery.

If a driving licence is required for this role you will need to produce a copy of the driving licence at the onboarding stage.

Discovery is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity and is strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. Discovery are Disability Confident Committed and we guarantee to interview all applicants who let us know they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for this role. Discovery has been awarded this symbol by Jobcentre Plus to recognise our commitment towards the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees. As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application . Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 03003039150 or email [e-mail]

Other organisations may call this role Community Support Worker, Residential Support Worker, Care Worker, Care Assistant, Social Care Worker, Social Care Assistant or, Bank HCA, Healthcare Assistant or Carer.

Discovery
The Exchange, Bridgwater, Somerset
TA6 4RR