Support Worker

Adult Social Care; Southampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social care provider is looking for compassionate Support Workers in Southampton. You will enhance the quality of life for individuals by teaching life skills and assisting with personal care in a vibrant community setting. This role offers flexibility in shifts, opportunities for skills development, and strong career progression, making it perfect for someone passionate about making a difference in others' lives. All applicants will be subject to DBS checks and references.

Benefits

Enhanced pay for evenings and weekends

Premium overtime rates

Wagestream - access to earned pay

Funded Blue Light Card

24/7 doctor line

Cash plans for colleagues and families

Enhanced retirement leave

Long service awards

Qualifications

• Full UK driving license is required.
• Experience with Positive Behaviour Support plans.
• Experience working with individuals requiring enhanced support.

Responsibilities

• Enhancing the quality of life for the people supported.
• Teaching new life skills and assisting with personal care.
• Encouraging socialization in local communities and activities.

Skills

Resilience

Flexibility

Compassion

Life Skills Teaching

Job description

Overview

Support Worker – Portswood, Southampton paying £12.61 per hour. Typical Shifts are: Long days 7:30am – 9:30pm (3 per week) or if preferred split shifts 7:30am – 2.30pm and 2:30pm – 9:30pm

What you’ll get

• 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
• Long service awards

Role and responsibilities

We’re on the hunt for genuinely caring, hands-on 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 residential service in Portswood, Southampton 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 local bars and pubs, the next you could be unwinding with them playing video games, watching films or going to the cinema.

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.

Experience and qualifications

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 hold a full UK driving license, 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 requiring enhanced support, including behaviour’s of distress, mental health conditions, autism, forensic histories and people who have experienced trauma.

Why choose us?

You don’t need to have experience to be a fantastic Support Worker, what you need is a passion for enhancing the quality of life for the people we support, a desire to learn and a genuine caring attitude.

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, so don’t hesitate to apply today 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

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