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Support Worker

Employer
Home Group
Location
Luton, Bedfordshire
Salary
Starting salary £23,000 per annum pro rata (£11.76 per hour)
Closing date
7 Sep 2022

Job Details

DESCRIPTION/RESPONSIBILITIES:
St Albans, Hertfordshire

Permanent
Starting salary £23,000 per annum pro rata (£11.76 per hour)

Full and part time hours 

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

We are looking for a team of Support Workers to join us at our supported living service, Nicholas House in St Albans.  We support our wonderful customers who are all young men (aged under 25) with various levels of learning disabilities to live independently in their own flat within our beautiful house. You’ll be supporting one of our customers with all aspects of his day to day living, including personal care, working in a person-centred way so that he can enjoy the best quality of life and live as independently as possible.  

Our customers have varying levels of learning disabilities with a huge amount of potential to develop their skills to be as enabled and independent as possible.  They are looking for a team who will share their interests as well as encourage and support them to participate in lots of new activities too!  If you are kind, caring and passionate, then we would love you to join us.   

Their home is on a lovely quiet road with lots of shops, great bus routes and a train station nearby, perfect for the commute or a day out. Our building has been completely renovated with seven self-contained flats bespoke to each customer with a big garden (which has lots of space to grow plants or veg if they fancy that!). 

About you
You'll be engaging, lively with a kind and caring nature. We are looking for people who are passionate and motivated to help our customer with all aspects of his day to day living, including personal care and to help him reach his full potential.  

This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to expand their current knowledge and develop their skills.  You’ll have previous experience, whether in a similar role or caring for a family member, child or neighbour for example. What's important is that you have a passion for supporting our customer and truly wants to make a difference to his life.  We will provide you with lots of support and opportunities for professional development and career progression if you want that!.

A Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent is preferred, but again not essential as we’ll fund and support you to gain the qualification if you don’t already have it. A current full driving license would be great to drive our customer in their own mobility car around the community, but it's not a deal breaker!

We also require that you have a valid Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service which we will pay for.    

Working hours 
Our customer needs support 24/7 to meet his needs, so you’ll take your turn working on a rota.  We offer lots of different hours and shift patterns depending on what you are looking for, which includes working days, evenings, weekends, bank holidays, waking nights and sleep ins. As we’re asking you to be flexible, we’ll also give you the time back that you need to spend time doing the things that matter to you!

What’s on offer?
• We’ll nurture your talent; help you understand how things work here and you’ll have a fantastic induction with ongoing learning and support! 
• 25 days annual leave (on top of bank holidays), rising a day a year up to 30 days. Fancy a little bit more? Then why not buy up to five days extra leave?
• Access to over 800 high street discounts, interest free loans, discounted breakdown cover and payment plans to purchase the latest IT gadgets.
• Generous pension scheme and Life Assurance
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, parental leave and pay.

Plus lots more!  Find out more about our benefits and rewards package!

Want to know more and apply?
Just upload your CV and if you have one, your covering letter. If you need them, we’ve also got some great templates to help you.  If you’re not already on our career’s page, press the APPLY NOW button.  You can download our Positive Behaviour Support Worker Job Description, and find out more about us in our Nicholas House information pack.  We’ve also got some short films that show you what it’s like to work here.

Be yourself at Home
Home Group is committed to tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but for our colleagues too! We’re super proud of our internal Diversity Networks and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) which support colleagues from different backgrounds to be their true selves. We recognise and celebrate our differences, together we make Home Group a great place to work!

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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