Senior Support Worker

Achieve Together Limited; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care support provider in the UK is seeking compassionate Support Workers to assist individuals with learning disabilities and complex needs. The role involves empowering people to live independently, participate in community activities, and achieve personal goals. Ideal candidates will be supportive, reliable, and eager to learn. The position offers flexible working patterns and comprehensive training opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Career progression and training opportunities

Employee assistance program

Team events and social activities

Employee discount schemes

Optional pay advances

Incentive schemes

Experiences and outings for supported individuals

Qualifications

• Patient, kind, and compassionate approach in daily support.
• Ability to understand and meet communication needs.
• Willingness to learn with full training provided.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals in everyday life and community integration.
• Encourage independence and participation in activities.
• Assist with daily living tasks like shopping and cleaning.

Skills

Supportive & caring

Reliable & trustworthy

Friendly & approachable

Great at communicating & listening

Proactive & make things happen

Job description

At Achieve together, one of the UK’s leading providers of support for people with learning disabilities, autism, PMLD, deafness, hearing loss and associated complex needs, we strive to empower and inspire people in order to give them the resources, skills and confidence to thrive, live their lives independently, and to the fullest, while supporting them to achieve their goals and aspirations.

Without our incredible team of Support Workers, we simply wouldn’t be who we are today. In their own words, people we support are looking for Support Workers with all or most of the following traits:

• supportive & caring
• reliable & trustworthy
• friendly & approachable
• happy
• kind
• great at communicating & listening
• fun and up for a laugh
• happy to learn new skills
• have similar interests
• proactive & make things happen
• encourage people to do new things
• treat people as equals

Is this you? Keep reading!

You will support people in everyday life, celebrate achievements, encourage fun and creativity, and empower people to be a meaningful part of their local community. This is more than just a job – you’ll be helping people gain independence and live healthy, happy and fulfilling lives.

At Achieve together, you’ll embark on a career adventure like no other, with dedicated training opportunities along the way to develop your skills as a Support Worker and beyond. Whatever your aspirations, we can help you reach your goals and forge a long-lasting career in social care.

You will support people both in their home and in their local communities and we have a range of working patterns to suit you, including full time, part time and flexible opportunities.

We offer a range of exciting benefits, such as:

• Flexible hours to suit a range of lifestyles
• Career progression and training opportunities
• Employee welfare and wellbeing initiatives, including access to Employee Assistance Programme with free counselling services for you and your family
• Recognition schemes, team events and social activities
• Employee discount schemes across a range of retailers and services,
• Wagestream - a financial health app that gives you the ability to receive optional pay advances
• Team member incentive schemes such asRefer a Friend, Employee of the Month and Heroes Awards
• New experiences and opportunities for days out with people you support, sometimes even holidays!

About the people and their home

People at Wembdon Rise enjoy a variety of activities. There are ten people who live here, who each have their own unique activities that they enjoy, and goals that they are working towards, which continually evolve with that person over time. These can be taking part in activities such as supporting someone to attend and engage in college courses, attend local social events or clubs to develop relationships, keeping up physical activity through walking, exploring, using the gym, swimming and bike riding. Our team is often supporting people to have days out to places all over the country from Plymouth aquarium to Alton Towers to Madam Tussauds and everything in between. The Wembdon Rise team also help the people we support do their weekly shopping for food, toiletries, household belongings and also take people shopping for things like games or to charity shops. Achieving independence goals with everyday living tasks such as washing and cleaning is a huge part of the day to day. People we support enjoy engaging in high energy singing, dancing, storytelling and other verbal engagement. The above is just a sample of the sheer variety and different things the people who live at Wembdon do day in day out. The home itself has been rated good, all thanks to the teams’ hard work in supporting people to live fulfilled lives, and we pride ourselves on our person-centred support.

As a Support Worker, you would help aid the above by ensuring you have a person-centred approach to your support every day. Being patient, kind and compassionate in your approach to guiding people through day to day is essential. Ensuring good knowledge of the persons communication needs to ensure that they have the best opportunities to achieve independence and communicate their wants, needs and choice is also a big part of the role. You would work well independently, with initiative, to help the people supported achieve but also be able to work collaboratively with a team to look at achieving in the wider perspective and long term goals and aims in line with the people supported wishes.

About you

New to social care? That’s OK! As long as you’re ready to learn, we provide full training to ensure you can provide the best possible support

If you have the qualities and interests that align with people we support, we can’t wait for you to apply!