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Support Worker

Employer
Home Group
Location
Kent
Salary
£20,000 - £29,999
Closing date
25 May 2021

Job Details

DESCRIPTION/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support Worker

Ashford, Kent

Permanent, Full & Part Time hours available (37.5 hpw if Full Time)

Salary circa £23,000 per annum (pro rata) based on skills and experience

Plus, sleep in enhancements and brilliant benefits!

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

We have a rewarding opportunity for you to join our Transforming Care team, helping our brilliant customers to live a fulfilling life in their own home within the local community. We are currently recruiting for two customers.

Customer one: You will be supporting our gentleman customer who is a young man in his 30?s. He has complex needs including mild intellectual disability, which is associated with epilepsy and abnormal aggressive and irresponsible behaviour. He has many a keen interest and if you?re a Manchester United fan, you?ll get on just brilliantly! On top of that, he likes to go shopping and play pool where he considers himself to be the ?pool King?. He is proud to say he gets on with everyone as long as you are respectful and spend time getting to know him. He does not like having to repeat himself and likes to have some time alone when he is feeling low.

Customer two: You will be supporting our wonderful customer who is a lady in her 40?s, who has complex needs including autism, challenging behaviours and a forensic history. She is looking for a calm and patient support team to assist with her daily living activities. With a wide range of interests from cooking to taking photos and visiting charity shops, it?s important to her that her team can also share her passion for these interests. Structure is a big part in our customers life, and you?ll be able to create a structured environment without being restrictive as constraints can often make her feel anxious. She can get very anxious out in the community so you will need to able to provide consistent support when she is finding things a difficult.

About our team

You?ll be working alongside our fantastic Regional Transforming Care Manager, and Lucy our Deputy Manager, as well as our brand-new team of PBS Support Workers and clinical colleagues who are super passionate about supporting our customer to reach their goals and celebrate their achievements. 

Where you?ll work

You?ll work primarily with one of our customers in their own home in Ashford, as well as supporting them in the community. But there may be opportunities to work with our other customers in Kent! You can use public transport to support our customers and we?ll pay your expenses to cover this!

Working hours

Our customers? need 24/7 help to meet their needs, so you?ll take your turn with your team working on a rota.  Shifts available include days, evenings, weekends, bank holidays or waking nights. You may also be required to do sleep ins, 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?re passionate and motivated and will impress us with your ability to work on your own initiative, positively influencing our customers to work towards their goals and aspirations. You will have some experience in safeguarding, risk assessments, confidentiality, support plans, alongside working collaboratively. You?ll also be willing to provide personal care when required, so some experience in physical assistance to help wash, (shower or bath) dress, oral care is also highly desirable. 

You?ll have relevant experience and it would also be amazing if you have worked in this type of environment before, however it?s your ?can do? positive attitude and enthusiasm that are important to us.  You?ll ideally hold Level 2 or 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent or be willing to study for this which we?ll support you with. 

One of our customers doesn?t do well on public transport, therefore it would be beneficial if you had a driving licence and access to a vehicle.

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

We?ll develop your talent and 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.

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 Positive Behaviour Support Worker 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.

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.

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!

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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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