Skip to main content

This job has expired

Night Support Worker

Employer
Home Group
Location
Swindon, Wiltshire
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
11 May 2021

Job Details

Night Support Worker

Swindon

Permanent, Full-time or Part-time hours available (37.5 hpw if full time)

Salary circa £20,250 pa or £10.35 ph pro rata, based on experience.

Additional payments for Sleep-in and On-Call enhancements, plus brilliant benefits!   

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

We have a fab opportunity for you to join our Transforming Care team as a Night Support Worker, helping our brilliant customer to live a fulfilling life in his own home within the local community.

Our team support our customers who have complex support needs, including learning disabilities, mental health issues, autism and communication differences, alongside ongoing physical health conditions. While the job is hugely rewarding, its not always easy, as our customers may also have a forensic background and distressing behaviours. Although you?ll work nights, we do get together regularly in the daytime for training and team meetings.

The man you will be helping (lets call him T), has a fun, bubbly and energetic personality and loves the outdoors, taking part in lots of adventurous activities from hiking, biking to rock climbing. His other interests include music, singing, acting and impersonating; so if you love outdoor activities too and are combination of the X Factor, Britain?s Got Talent and a wannabee Olympian, well you?re just perfect for our role!  Of course, we're only kidding and what T really wants, is a support worker who?ll take the time to get to know him, who is caring, a good listener, positive and encouraging. Don?t worry there won?t be an audition and you?ll find Simon Cowell on our job interview panel!

As our waking night support worker, you?ll be part of a small sub team working permanent nights. You?ll offer T a first point of call when he needs it.

About our team

You?ll work for Deb our Registered Manager who has worked for Home Group for 5 years.  Deb has loads of experience in working with customers with both mental health and learning disabilities and has a clinical background in nursing. Deb was also an accredited psychotherapist in a previous life before joining Home Group and is perfectly placed to help you settle into your new role!

Outside of doing her job, you?ll find Deb spending quality time with her family and when we can again, she loves cooking for friends and cheering on her local football team. 

Where you?ll work

You?ll work primarily with T in his own home in Swindon, as well as assisting him in the community. But there will likely be opportunities to work with our other customers in Swindon!  You can use public transport to support him and we?ll pay your expenses to cover this!

Working hours

T needs our support 24/7, so you?ll take your turn working on a rota basis which includes working days, evenings, weekends, and bank holidays. You?ll also be asked to help cover night shift when your permanent nights colleagues are off. Finally, you could be asked to do a sleep in shift and pay you an enhancement for that. The great news is that being flexible works both ways, as we?re asking you to be flexible for T, we?ll give you the time you need to do the things that matter to you!   

About you

You?re passionate and motivated to assist T with any aspect of his day to day living. You?ll be able to work in a person centred and strengths-based way, assisting him to enjoy the best possible quality of life.  You?ll help change his life for the better by involving him and his support network) in working towards his aspirations.  You?ll provide personal care in a strengths-based way to facilitate greater independence, as well as use creative solutions, and assistive technology where available, to support independence.

Ideally, you?ve worked in a similar job before, and it?s important that you?re prepared to provide personal care and have experience of helping customers to reach their full potential.  In a perfect world you hold a level 2 or equivalent in Health and Social Care (or are prepared to study for this with our support), you have a great knowledge of professional boundaries, safeguarding, risk assessment and working with personalised support plans.

When you start the job, 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 develop your talent, help you learn quickly how things work here and you?ll have a fantastic induction with ongoing learning and development! You?ll be trained to support our customer?s mental and physical wellbeing and to take positive risks to enable his successful journey to have his own home and being part of his community. If required (and only as a last resort), you may need to use physical intervention and we will provide you with training and support to do this safely.

We want you to get the right balance and to be 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 job pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! You can download the PBS Support Worker, 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 how we have supported our colleagues during Covid. We know you?ll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package!

During Covid

We?re continuing to deliver services for our customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and our brilliant colleagues are at the very heart of making that happen. We?re doing things a little differently at the moment, so to keep everyone safe, we?ll engage with you digitally where possible. Check out our awesome video to find out more on how our colleagues have felt supported here during the outbreak.

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 and make Home Group a great place to work!

#social #care #socialcare #swindon #transformingcare #wiltshirejobs #swindonjobs

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

Sign in to create job alerts

Sign in or create an account to start creating job alerts and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert