Night Support Worker

This role as a Night Support Worker at Ranworth House in Eastbourne provides an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of people with severe learning disabilities, Autism, and challenging behaviors. You will be part of an inclusive, supportive team that works together to enable residents to lead a full and valued life. The role requires empathy, compassion, and excellent communication skills to provide high-quality care and support during the night shifts.

As a Night Support Worker, you will work alongside a multidisciplinary team to provide care and support to residents with learning disabilities and Autism. Your responsibilities will include assisting with personal hygiene, managing challenging behaviors, and promoting independence and community engagement. You will need to have a positive attitude, resilience, and the ability to work effectively in a sometimes challenging environment.

The role involves working night shifts, 9 pm to 7:30 am, on a 4 on, 4 off rolling rota, for 36.75 hours per week.

Elysium Healthcare is a leading provider of specialist mental health, learning disability, and neurorehabilitation services in the UK. With over 8,000 employees and a network of over 90 services, Elysium offers diverse career opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package to support the wellbeing and growth of its staff.

Are you a naturally empathetic, caring and compassionate Support Worker in the UK with experience of caring for people with learning disabilities?

Do you want a fulfilling career, where you can make a difference and change lives for the better in a culture of kindness and teamwork? Where you’ll be supported with development opportunities to grow you as a person and in your career?

Join Ranworth House in Eastbourne as a Support Worker and provide care for people with severe learning disabilities, Autism and behaviours may be seen as challenging; where you’ll support and encourage them to lead a full and valued life, enabling them to live more independently.

You’ll be great with people – a real ‘people person’, able to communicate effectively – explaining yourself clearly in the right tone to suit the situation and be really good at understanding others (behaviours and expressions, as well as vocal). Having a good sense of humour and resilience, and a willingness to help residents with their personal hygiene are also important.

What you will be doing You will join an inclusive, supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. Whether you have experience as a Care Assistant or Support Worker, you will use your knowledge and skills to help support people lead a valued and fulfilled life.

Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will use your excellent communication skills and experience as a Support Worker with a background in Learning Disabilities & Autism to provide care and support people through their care pathway. It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of you;

being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week.

You will work night shifts, 9pm to 7:30am on a 4 on 4 off rolling rota 36.75 hours per week.

Where you will be working

Ranworth House is part of our Learning Disability and Autism division and provides a specialist residential service for men and women with a range of learning disabilities, including autism and sensory and communication impairments. This specialist service is designed for those individuals with a learning disability who require a high level of support to live within a community setting and will continue to require this longer term.

The home is a large, detached house with two lounges, a sensory room, dining room, kitchen and surrounding garden. Each person has their own spacious en‑suite bedroom.

It is located in Eastbourne in East Sussex. This seaside town enjoys an excellent range of facilities and amenities including parks and gardens. Eastbourne has direct…