Waking Night Worker

PHOENIX HOUSE; Yarnton; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Season ticket loan

Free car parking

Staff wellbeing and supervision

Job summary

Phoenix Futures is recruiting for a Waking Night Worker at Ophelia House in Yarnton. The role focuses on facilitating the evening running of a women’s therapeutic community and coordinating residents’ activities in a residential setting.

You will provide waking night cover, monitor risk, support residents with the daily programme and administer medication where needed. Experience in drug and alcohol recovery is beneficial, with a flexible, compassionate approach essential.

Qualifications

• Understanding of issues presented by individuals in drug and alcohol recovery.
• Ability to be innovative and flexible to meet service needs.
• Experience working with multi‑agencies and collaborating to maintain service reputation.

Responsibilities

• Organise and facilitate the evening running of the therapeutic community in a residential setting.
• Coordinate service users’ tasks and activities.
• Provide waking night cover while monitoring and minimising risk.
• Organise and facilitate residents in preparing for the daily programme and activities.
• Monitor and administer medication to service users.

Job description

Waking Night Worker

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity to join the Phoenix Futures team as a Night Support Worker at our new and innovative Trauma Responsive Women’s Therapeutic Community Residential Service, Ophelia House, in Yarnton.

The Role

• To organise and facilitate the evening running of the therapeutic community in a residential.
• To co-ordinate the service users’ tasks and activities.
• To provide waking night cover, ensuring that risk is monitored and minimised.
• To organize and facilitate the residents in preparing for the daily programmeand activities.
• To monitor and administer medicationto service users.

About You

• An understanding of the complex issues presented by individuals within drug and alcohol recovery.
• The ability to be innovative and be flexibleto meet the needs of the service.
• Be able to work effectively with multi-agencies, whilst maintaining the excellent reputation of the service.
• Previous experience is desirable, however not essential. Night Support Workers come from many different backgrounds and experiences, and you may have the skills required. We are seeking dedicated individuals, based on your values, willingness to learn new skills and the compassion to deliver the best service possible to our residents.
• This is a full‑time role working averaging 37.5 hours per week. You will be expected to work a 4-week rolling night shift.

Please note, we will be assessing applications as they are submitted and may close this role should we find sufficient applicants with which to make our shortlist.
We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and believe it is important to include people with lived experience to ensure the needs of the people we support are represented. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where everyone is free to be themselves and we ensure equity of opportunity.

Your Rewards

• Starting salary of £26,298 (Plus £2,000 Market supplement)
• 25 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing each year to a maximum of 30 days)
• Clinical Supervision
• Brand new refurbished service with staff changing rooms and shower.
• Free Car parking
• Benefits including season ticket loan, pension scheme and life assurance
• Support through occupational sick pay, eye‑care vouchers and regular wellbeing talks and activities
• Continuous training and career development via PXL our dedicated learning management system
• Access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance programme including telephone and online access
• A rewarding role with the opportunity to help us support people on their journey to recovery and change their lives for the better.
• We’ll ensure you get all the support you need to thrive and succeed in your role and find your place amongst our incredible and collaborative team.

About Phoenix Futures

Phoenix Futures Group is a charity with over 50 years’ experience and a leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment.
Our values are what define us and ensure we work to the highest standards. We believe in being the best, we are passionate about recovery, we value our history and use it to inform our future.
We work with local authorities, other charities and service providers across the country to deliver innovative programmes and projects that change lives for the better, setting people on the path to health and emotional wellbeing.
We provide a diverse range of services, our expertise in psychosocial treatment and support is the common thread that runs through everything we do. People need psychological interventions, social support, meaningful use of time, sense of purpose and a place of safety to sustain their recovery. At our core, we support people, families and communities to recover from drug and alcohol dependency.

This role will be working in a women’s-only residential service specialising in providing safe therapeutic environments for those who have experienced multiple disadvantage and those who have experienced past trauma. Therefore there is an Operational Requirement for this role to be fulfilled by a female (determined compliant under ACAS guidelines for recruiting applicants with a protected characteristic to do a certain job). [1]