Support Worker, Community Health

Overview

We re on the hunt for genuinely caring, hands‑on Support Workers with a passion for enhancing the quality of life of the people we support.

As a support worker with us you'll be helping people to gain more independence in their daily lives, whilst working within a dynamic team to support a fantastic group of people!

Our residential service Brentwood is a welcoming and friendly environment and you can be sure that no two days will be the same! You ll be enhancing the lives of the people we support by teaching them new life skills, assisting with personal care, encouraging them to access their local communities, socialising and doing lots of activities such as swimming, bowling, going to the park, cinemas or visiting places of interest.

This is an amazing role for someone who is looking to really make a difference to someone's life and to help them grow in confidence and independence so that they meet their goals, whether this be making dinner by themselves or going on holiday.

• Help people gain more independence in their daily lives.
• Assist with personal care.
• Encourage access to local communities.
• Socialise and arrange activities such as swimming, bowling, park visits, cinemas and other places of interest.
• Teach new life skills.

You don t need to have experience to be a fantastic Support Worker, what you need is a passion for enhancing the quality of life for the people we support, a desire to learn and a genuine caring attitude.

We embrace people s differences and encourage you to Be You, and so long as you ve got the passion to make someone s life better, we can give you all the skills and development opportunities you need to build a great career.

We encourage our staff to Grow Together through our excellent training programme, starting at induction and following you through your career, with opportunity for promotion and progression as well as job security in a sector leading organisation.

• Excellent training and development programme.
• Career progression and promotion opportunities.
• Job security within a leading organisation.
• Sector leading salary – 12.67.
• Full‑time contract.
• Enhanced retirement leave.
• Long service awards.
• 24/7/365 doctor line and access to cash plans for colleagues and their families.
• Enhanced evening and weekend pay at an additional 50p per hour (Ts & Cs apply).
• Premium overtime rates at an additional 1 per hour (Ts & Cs apply).
• Wagestream giving you the flexibility to draw upon up to 40% of your pay, as it is earned.
• Funded Blue Light Card with hundreds of discounts at high street retailers.
• Access to cash plans for our colleagues, which also covers their families.
• Driver required – must have own vehicle.

• Waking Night Support Worker – Full Time
• Shift patterns:
  Early, Lates, weekend working, occasional nights and Bank Holiday shifts.
• Night shifts example: 8am‑3pm, 3pm‑10pm, and 10pm‑8am.
• On a weekend on/weekend off basis alternately, 3 nights one week and 4 nights the next week.

All applicants and subsequent job offers will be subject to satisfactory DBS checks and references.