Job Introduction
Are you looking for a Support Worker/ Assistant role where you can make a difference to those within the community? A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our Supported Living Service team as a support worker, where you will have the chance to help promote independence and daily living tasks for our service users.
The Supported Living Service runs 24/7 all year round, so this role is perfect for someone who is looking for flexible working to help work around personal or family commitments. There are no set shift patterns as we work around the needs of our service users, so we can be flexible around the hours the successful candidate can work.
Since our service runs 24/7, we offer attractive enhancements for working unsocial hours and weekend and bank holidays shifts. By working unsocial hours (between the hours of 8pm and 8am) and Saturdays, you will receive basic pay rate plus 33%. For Sundays and Bank holidays, we offer basic rate of pay plus 50%!
Main Responsibility
You will be based primarily in Radstock but the role includes travelling to service users homes who live in the Bath and North East Somerset area.
You will be making a difference to the lives of people within your community, along with managing a passionate team of colleagues. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Assist in the overall management of service, including planning for development, leadership and supervision of the staff team
- To develop person centre support programmes, relevant to service users individual needs and to monitor and review their progress
- Participate in the development and training of members of staff by identifying individual development needs of staff and to participate in staff development programmes.
- To establish and maintain contact with carers, social workers, care managers, consultants, community nurses and other professional staff and other relevant agencies
- To ensure that services are responsive to community needs and that equal opportunity issues are identified and addressed effectively.
- Working alongside colleagues delivering person centred support to those with learning disabilities in our community
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for an enthusiastic Support Worker who has experience managing a small team and looking to take the next step in their career. A level 3 NVQ or equivalent experience is desirable.
You will be passionate about making a difference to service users within your community who have learning disabilities. You will be a naturally empathetic individual who can easily develop relationships and be able to deliver the highest level of support by developing each individuals independance.
For more information, including the job description please ring Philip Dunsdon, Registered Manager on 07815524277 or email Philip.dunsdon@hcrgcaregroup.com
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Senior Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £24,000 salary, plus out of hour enhancements and access to our group pension
- Free parking at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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