The Offer
You'll be working at East Boro Housing, Care and Support Trust, as part of the Aster Group. As an overnight on-site Support Worker, you’ll help to provide a secure, happy and supportive environment within Cranford Avenue in Weymouth. You’ll live on site as a sleep in Support Worker, where 8 of our service users reside, ensuring an environment that is clean, tidy, warm and inviting.
This is a sleep in role where you will be sleeping in your own flat providing on call service to 8 residents in Cranford Ave for 5 nights a week for £30.00 per sleeping night, from 10pm - 8.30am. The flat is attached to Cranford Avenue, as part of the tied accommodation. Further information relating to the rent for the property is available on request and will be discussed at interview.
We also have opportunities for you to work extra hours as a Care and Support worker in the day on top of this role.
Key responsibilities
Safeguarding is everybody’s business. The welfare and safeguarding of our service users is paramount as is your role and your level of responsibility is within the organisation.
You’ll provide safe, reliable, compassionate support that is centred on the individual needs and wishes of each service user. This involves respecting each Service Users choices and always promoting their dignity.
You’ll respond at Night if woken by Service Users, using their telephone emergency system and provide support and reassurance when required.
About us
At East Boro we specialising in housing and support services for the elderly, adults with learning disabilities and other vulnerable people, we seek to provide our residents with more than just a home. Our customers are our reason for being, so we try to involve customers in everything we do. We have provided care and support services since 1960 and currently serve a range of customers with different needs.
About you
You will need:
* Good communication skills
* Basic literacy and numeracy skills
* To be compassionate and patient
* Experience in a caring industry
* Confident and comfortable lone working
* To pass our DBS check or be on the DBS update service
* Verify your right to work in the UK.
* Completed your Care Certificate or hold an NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification.
Even better if you have previous experience of a working for a personalised care services for adults of with physical, learning, and mental disabilities and providing personal care.
EBHT as part of the Aster Group is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.
We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:
* A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
* We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
* Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
* Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
* Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
* We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives, and monthly and annual awards
We cannot wait to hear from you! Apply as soon as possible with your most updated CV.
The Company
Our Housing and Independent Living teams provide a comprehensive range of housing-related services to more than 75,000 customers.
The team acts as landlord of more than 28,000 homes owned and managed by us and offers a variety of supporting options designed to help elderly and vulnerable customers to continue living their lives independently. Some of the business functions include customer accounts, lettings, customer services & neighbourhood management.
The Benefits
Please have a look below at just some of the benefits we offer....
Cycle2Work
scheme
Sign up to our tax free bike scheme via salary sacrifice enabling a healthier, more sustainable journey to work.
Employee assistance programme
Benefit from 24/7 access to confidential counselling and legal information services.
Develop
your career
We’re invested in you. Grow your talents, skills and expertise through our learning offering.
Keeping fit
in the gym
Enjoy our onsite gym in our Devizes office, or discounts at a local offsite gym.
Volunteering
days
Give something back by taking paid time off for volunteering activities.
Flexible
working
Depending on your job, we encourage you to work to your own schedule and from a location that suits you.