Support Worker

Wiltshire, Calne

Permanent, Part Time (30 hpw)

Pay £12.61 per hour (Salary £24, 664 per annum) pro rata and great benefits including Health Cash Plan!

Home, a place where you belong

Join us in this great and rewarding job, as our Waking Night Support Worker (known internally as Positive Behavioural Support Worker). You’ll join our team to provide person-centred and strengths-based support to our customer (let's call them J) and help them reach their full potential.

J has complex needs including autism and a learning disability. J is an intelligent, gentle, and calm young man who needs our dedicated and positive team to help him reach his full potential. J has sensory processing difficulties, is hypersensitive to sound and wears ear defenders to help him manage his sensitivity. When stressed or anxious, J can display behaviours that challenge us, and we need you to take the time to get to know him, and be caring, understanding, reassuring and positive.

Typical day as a Support Worker

• Helping J overcome barriers and help him lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach his true potential.
• Recognising J’s strengths and abilities and help him take the small steps at his pace, never losing sight of his dreams and aspirations.
• Supporting J using Positive Behavioural Support model to promote independence and social inclusion through person centred support.
• Monitoring our customers’ mental and physical health to identify any signs of deterioration and take positive risk management to their health and wellbeing.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for a Top Ten Great Place to Work in the UK!

You bring

• Experience in a Complex Care setting, with a Level 2 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or are prepared to work towards it.
• Worked as a Support Worker, supporting people with complex needs, or behaviours of distress.
• A patient and calm approach, able to adapt your style to J's needs, as well as to the specific occasion and circumstances, even when they challenge us.
• Experience of positive risk management, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.
• If you have Makaton skills that’s the cherry on the cake!

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.

Our team

You’ll join Deb, our Registered Manager who’s been with Home Group for over 8 years now and has a clinical background as a nurse. She’s a people-person, caring for customers and colleagues alike. Deb also loves a house full of family at home and loves to cook for them all although they may not all appreciate her cooking! She’s also into football, theatre and travelling when she gets chance.

Job details

• You’ll work on a rota basis, 10-hour shifts between 2130pm and 0730am, this means plenty of days off!
• You’re able to use technology to update create and update support plans, communicate with colleagues and complete online learning.
• We’ll make sure you have a fantastic induction with ongoing learning and support.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

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!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our PBS Support 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.

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