Support Worker, Community Health

Overview

As a Support Worker in Torfaen, you’ll help make the everyday remarkable for the people we support. We are dedicated to supporting those with learning disabilities to live a fulfilled and enriched life in the community. As a Support Worker, you can play a vital role in this.

Support Worker

Location:

Torfaen

Hours:

We have both part time (minimum 10 hours per week) and full time hours (maximum 40 hours per week). Your shift pattern will include weekends and sleep-ins.

Salary: £12.74 per hour and our sleep-in shifts at £60 per night. Travel expenses are paid at 45p per mile.

Contract:

Permanent

In this role, you’ll actively support individuals in making their own choices and set their own goals — whether it’s everyday decisions like what to wear, eat, or do, or something bigger such as where to live, how to manage their finances, or where to go on holiday.

As a trusted Support Worker, you'll empower people to follow through on these choices, including taking part in structured activities that build confidence and develop new skills. You’ll also offer practical support to help them meet responsibilities like paying bills, maintaining their homes, being good neighbours, and staying connected with friends and family.

Your goal is to make everyday remarkable through enhancing well-being and focusing on the small, meaningful moments that bring joy and purpose. By offering this kind of person-centred support every day, this truly is a fun and rewarding role for the right person.

No experience required as full training is provided. We’d love to hear from you if you:

• have patience and empathy
• can support a person with their intimate personal care with respect and dignity
• have strong communication and teamwork skills
• are able to speak on behalf of others as well as to a range of professional people
• have good written skills and the ability to record events with empathy and meaning
• have a full driving licence - essential for transporting individuals to appointments and activities
• have access to your own car and happy to use this for transporting people we support to and from activities as well as obtaining business insurance for your vehicle, for which we pay 45p per mile to cover this

• Training and development opportunities
• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service with the option to buy and sell leave
• Health and Wellbeing programme - 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Company pension
• Benefits and discount platform
• Blue Light discount card

Our mission is to build a better future by focusing on people with learning disabilities and their families. We’re a cooperative, which means putting people at the heart of our decision making and support. You can find out more about this here.

We’ve made a promise to the people we support, setting out our commitments to them and how they can expect to be supported. Our values include:
Honesty, Trust, Kindness, Respect, Wellbeing.

Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early, so we would encourage you to apply early for this position.