This is an opportunity for an experienced Senior Support Worker to join Bradfield House, a specialist service designed for individuals with learning disabilities who require a high level of support to live within a community setting. The role involves organizing and overseeing the smooth running of shifts, ensuring the wellbeing of service users, and supervising support staff. The successful candidate will have strong leadership skills, compassion, and the ability to work in a challenging environment.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Support Worker, you will play a key role in supporting individuals with learning disabilities, including autism and sensory and communication impairments, to lead a full and valued life. You will organize activities, administer medication, communicate with families and professionals, and complete various administrative tasks. The role can be quite challenging at times, so a positive attitude, resilience, and vigilance are essential. However, it is also highly rewarding to see the progress and improvements made by the individuals in your care.
Job responsibilities
As a Senior Support Worker, some of your key responsibilities will include:
* Organising and overseeing the smooth running of a shift
* Ensuring the wellbeing of all service users
* Responding to any challenges or concerns
* Supervising support staff
* Organising activities
* Administering medication
* Communicating with families and professionals
* Overseeing daily reports, budgets, and completing financial audits
* Completing Health & Safety checks
It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important. It is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of you; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week.
No two days are the same in this role, offering plenty of engagement and motivation. While there's a degree of routine, you can expect a diverse work environment. Our rota includes days, nights, and weekend shifts to ensure a well-balanced team effort. This is a permanent, full-time contract, 37.5 weekly hours.
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. You will have the opportunity to use your knowledge and skills to help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Qualifications
* Experience as Senior Support Worker or extensive care experience from a learning disability and autism residential setting and hold the NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or working towards.
* Leadership skills and experience
* Strong empathy and a caring and compassionate nature
* Willingness to support residents with personal hygiene
* Excellent people and communication skills, and a good sense of humour
* Ability to deal with challenging behaviours
* Positive and professional approach
* Reliable, flexible, hard-working, and honest
* Local or within commutable distance
You must live in the UK and have the Right to Work in the UK full time. 20-hour Student and Skilled Worker Visa's cannot be accepted.
What you will get:
* Annual Salary of £25,350
* The equivalent of 33 days annual leave– plus your birthday off!
* Free meals and parking in local streets.
* Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance
* Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals
* Pension contribution to secure your future
* Life Assurance for added peace of mind
* Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers, and much more.
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
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