Supported Living Worker

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear

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

Earn £12.60 per hour (£24, 638 per annum, pro rata.

We can't sponsor you due to certificate limits. We review this regularly

Home, a place where you belong

Come and join Home Group and discover a career where your compassion and skills have an impact you can see every day, and where you’re valued just as much as those you support!

In our Good rated registered CQC service you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers with learning disability needs, getting the chance to slow down, connect and focus on what really matters, helping people achieve their goals and live fulfilling lives.

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank holidays and a “me day”)

• Paid time off for volunteering

• Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary)

• Save up to £1140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies

• Career path with development and an excellent training package

• Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses

Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing.

Typical day as our Supported Living Worker

• Help customers with daily living tasks to build independence and achieve their goals.

• Support customers with learning disabilities in activities like cooking, shopping, budgeting, and maintaining tenancies.

• Assist with personal care, medication, appointments, hobbies, college, or work.

• Carry out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting, and reviews.

• Spend quality time with customers – chats, cuppas, and collaborative support with colleagues.

You’ll go home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better, here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!

You have

• Level 2 or above in social care (or willingness to work towards it)

• Passion for supporting customers to live their best lives with attention to detail

• Experience caring for others, professionally or personally

• Ability to work independently, stay calm under pressure, and be resilient

• Flexible, person-centred approach to meet customer needs, including varied start/finish times

• Comfortable with technology for updating support plans, learning, and team collaboration

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We have full and part time roles available along with the possibility of fixed term maternity cover roles.

• Occasionally our customers' needs mean your start and finish times may change. Where we ask you to be flexible, we will always try to reciprocate

• 24-hour rota with sleep in shifts/waking nights

• Confident using technology for plans, training, and collaboration

• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

Please specify on your cover note if you are applying for full or part time.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our supported living worker job description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. You can even learn more about our benefits on our website.

Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk