Female Support Worker

Elysium Healthcare Limited; Bognor Regis; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Bognor Regis is seeking a compassionate Female Night Support Worker to join Walcott House. In this full-time role, you will provide essential care to individuals with severe learning disabilities and autism, supporting their personal hygiene and daily activities. The successful candidate will have strong communication skills, empathy, and resilience to thrive in a challenging yet rewarding environment. The position involves working 36.75 hours weekly on a shift rota, ensuring dedicated care during the night.

Qualifications

• Experience in caring for people with learning disabilities.
• Ability to handle challenging behaviours.
• Must hold a valid UK driving licence (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Provide care and support to individuals with severe learning disabilities.
• Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team.
• Support residents with personal hygiene and daily activities.

Skills

Empathy

Communication skills

Caring nature

Resilience

Flexibility

Job description

Introduction

Are you a naturally empathetic, caring and compassionate Support Worker in the UK with experience of caring for people with learning disabilities? Do you want a fulfilling career, where you can make a difference and change lives for the better in a culture of kindness and teamwork? Where you’ll be supported with development opportunities to grow you as a person and in your career?

Join Walcott House as a Female Night Support Worker and provide care for people with severe learning disabilities, autism and behaviour that may be seen as challenging. You’ll support and encourage them to lead a full and valued life, enabling them to live more independently.

You’ll be great with people – a real “people person”, able to communicate effectively, explaining yourself clearly in the right tone to suit the situation, and be really good at understanding others. Having a good sense of humour and resilience, and a willingness to help residents with their personal hygiene are also important.

We are exclusively recruiting for female staff only due to the needs of our female residents.

What you will be doing

You will join an inclusive, supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. Whether you have experience as a Care Assistant or Support Worker, you will use your knowledge and skills to help support people lead a valued and fulfilled life.

Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will use your excellent communication skills and experience as a Support Worker with a background in learning disabilities and autism to provide care and support people through their care pathway. It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important. But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of you – being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week.

You will work night shifts, on rota, 3 shifts on and 3 shifts off. Permanent, 36.75 weekly hours, full‑time contract.

In this role you will

• Hold a valid UK driving licence (preferred to assist with community visits)
• Have strong empathy and a caring and compassionate nature
• Be willing to support residents with personal hygiene
• Have excellent people and communication skills, and a good sense of humour
• Deal with challenging behaviours
• Have a positive and professional approach
• Be reliable, flexible, hard‑working and honest
• Be local or within commutable distance

You must live in the UK and have the Right to Work in the UK full time. 20‑hour Student and Skilled Worker Visas cannot be accepted.

Where you will be working

Location: 12 Annandale Avenue, Bognor Regis, West Sussex PO21 2EU

You will be working at Walcott House, a learning disability and autism service which provides a specialist residential service for men and women with a range of learning disabilities, including autism and sensory and communication impairments.

The aim of the service is to encourage individuals to lead a full and valued life, enabling them to live more independently through a programme of active community engagement, developing meaningful social networks and robust coping strategies.

Employer Statement

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.