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Lead Support Worker

Employer
Home Group
Location
Kent
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
8 Dec 2020

Job Details

Lead Support Worker

Canterbury, Kent

Permanent, Full and Part Time hours available (37.5 hpw if full time)

Salary c£25,500 pa pro rata, depending on skills and experience plus Sleep-In and On Call enhancements

Delivering support with a difference. That’s when it hits home.

It’s critical we continue to deliver services for our customers during the COVID-19 outbreak, and our awesome colleagues are at the very heart of making that happen. We need Brilliant People like you to join us. We're doing things a little differently at the moment, so to keep you, our customers and ourselves safe we’ll engage with you digitally.

We have a rewarding opportunity for you to join our Transforming Care team, supporting our brilliant customers to live a fulfilling life in their own home within the local community.  Our team support our customers who have complex presentations, which may include, learning disabilities, mental health issues, autism and communication differences, alongside ongoing physical health conditions. They may also have a forensic background and potential to display behaviours of concern.

You’ll manage our small team of frontline Support Workers (know by us as Positive Behavioural Support Workers) in providing person-centred and strengths-based support. Together, you’ll be supporting our customer to enjoy the best quality of life and live as independently as possible.  As our team and safeguarding lead, you’ll use your experience and brilliant skills in effectively motivating and directing colleagues. You’ll ensure our exciting new LIFE support practice model (Living Independently and Feeling Enabled) is delivered in a safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led way.  We’ll tell you all about it when we meet you!  You’ll also oversee complex support, working with our customer displaying any behaviours of concern and any requirement for personal care.

About our team

You’ll be working alongside our fabulous team of PBS Support Workers (we’re currently recruiting to these roles too), and clinical colleagues who are super passionate about supporting our customer to reach her goals and celebrate her achievements.  You will be leading a newly recruited team of around seven-eight colleagues and have loads of support on hand from our Kent clinical and management team. Lucy, our Deputy Manager, has worked with people with learning disabilities and those who communicate differently for over ten years, and she’s also a keen rugby player!  You’ll also work alongside Antonietta our Clinical Psychologist, who will regularly run wellbeing sessions for you and your team, and Wesley our Occupational Therapist who together will help you design and deliver a brilliant support package for our customer.  

Where you’ll work

You’ll work primarily with one female customer in her own home in Canterbury, as well as supporting her in the community. But there may be opportunities to work with our other customers in Kent!  You can use public transport to support her and we’ll pay your expenses to cover this!

Working hours

Our customer needs support 24/7 to meet her needs, so you’ll take your turn with your team working on a rota which could include working days, evenings, weekends, bank holidays and waking nights. You may also be required to do sleep ins or be on call in which an enhancement will be paid.  As we’re asking you to be flexible for our customer, we’ll also give you the time back that you need to spend time doing the things that matter to you!

About you

You’ll have an excellent working knowledge and experience in the Care and Support sector, including safeguarding processes and responding quickly and appropriately to emerging risks to individuals, teams or service delivery. It’s important to us that you have worked in a Senior Support Worker role before, preferably with people that display behaviours of concern, working with support and risk management plans.  Holding a Level 3 or 2 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or equivalent, you’ll have a great understanding and passion for promoting independence and social inclusion through person centred support. You’ll provide personal care in a strengths-based way to facilitate greater independence, as well as use creative solutions to support independence.  

To be awesome in this job, your key strengths will lie in people management and motivation, bringing colleagues together to share information, best practice, fostering creativity and overall ensuring our customer has a brilliant team! 

When you join, you’ll need to have a valid Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service. The great news is that we will pay for that to be done if you don’t have a transferrable one.

How we’ll support you

Don’t worry, we won’t drop you in the deep end, we’ll nurture your talent, help you understand how things work here and you’ll have a fantastic induction with ongoing learning and support!  You’ll be trained to keep an eye on customer’s mental and physical health, identifying any signs of deterioration, and take positive risk management to ensure our customers health and wellbeing.   

We want you to get the right balance and to be and feel always at your best to continue to deliver brilliant outcomes for our customer.  So, your wellbeing and taking time back when you need it too is our top priority!

Want to know more?

If you’re not reading this advert on our career’s pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! You can download the PBS Team Leader Job Description, and find out more about Home Group. We’ve also got some short films that show you what it’s like to work here, and we know you’ll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package!

To apply

Don’t delay applying for this brilliant job, as we may close it early if we get lots of applications! Just upload your CV and if you have one, your covering letter (this will help us learn more about you!). If you need them, we’ve also got some great templates to help you.  

You’re unique!

Home Group play a big part in tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but colleagues too! You can be yourself here, because we value everything that makes you unique. So, whatever your age, race, sexuality, disability, religion, or gender identity, we recognise and celebrate our differences. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

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Company

There’s never been a more exciting time to join us, as we build and sell over 10,000 new homes across the UK.  From affordable housing to our brilliant private sale brand Persona, we’re shaking up the new build market.  You’ll have the opportunity to work on everything from affordable homes to luxury apartments and build the career you want with us. 

As one of the UK’s largest developers of new homes and providers of houses for affordable rent.  We also provide long term integrated health and social care housing.  We don’t just build houses, we build homes and develop vibrant communities where people want to live. 

What keeps us busy?

We’re building homes, independence and aspirations and according to our trophy cabinet we’re pretty good at it! 

We’re winners of the 2018 UK Housing Awards Development Programme of the Year, Silver Best House at the What House Awards 2018, and RESI Landlord of the Year 2016.  We’re constantly challenging the status quo, delivering unparalleled schemes and ground-breaking products.  We pride ourselves on building happier, healthy homes, putting space and people before profits.

Oh and did we mentioned that we rank No. 27 in the UK’s Best Large Places to work, and 17th in Stonewall Top 100 Employers 2019?    

We’re growing

As we’re building new homes, we’re growing our team too so there are lots of opportunities for you to join us across the UK.  So whether you’re acquiring land, designing places, delivering schemes, selling homes or regenerating neighbourhoods.  You’ll be working alongside brilliant people to unlock bold opportunities, exciting new partnerships and collaborative projects across the UK. 

Join us

You can find out more about us and our current vacancies on our website at www.homegroup.org.uk/careers or on our Facebook and Linkedin pages.    

High-flying career, work life balance, brilliant benefits and a cherry on top!  There are so many reasons you’ll love working at Home Group.  https://youtu.be/624xZO1nXqY

 

Company info
Website
Location
2 Gosforth Park Way
Gosforth Business Park
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE12 8ET
GB

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