This is a Senior Support Worker role at Tottle Brook House, a registered care setting operated by Elysium Healthcare. The role involves providing care and support for individuals with learning disabilities and autism, including those with highly complex needs and challenging behaviors. The successful candidate will be responsible for organizing and overseeing shift operations, ensuring the wellbeing of service users, and supervising support staff.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Support Worker, you will be part of an inclusive, supportive team that works together to provide high-quality care to people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions. You will have the opportunity to use your knowledge and skills to make a real difference in the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society. Your key responsibilities will include organizing and overseeing the smooth running of shifts, ensuring the wellbeing of all service users, responding to any challenges or concerns, and supervising support staff. You will also be responsible for organizing activities, administering medication, communicating with families and professionals, overseeing daily reports and budgets, completing financial audits, and conducting health and safety checks.
About us
Elysium Healthcare is 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 ample opportunity for career growth and development. Elysium Healthcare is part of the global Ramsay Health Care network, which extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people worldwide.
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.
As a Senior Support Worker, some of your key responsibilities will include organizing and overseeing the smooth running of a shift, ensuring the wellbeing of all service users, responding to any challenges or concerns, and supervising support staff. You will organize activities, administer medication, communicate with families and professionals, oversee daily reports, budgets, complete financial audits, and complete health and 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.
As a Senior Support Worker you will have:
* Experience as Senior Support Worker or extensive care experience from a Learning Disability and Autism residential setting and hold a NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care
* 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
* Reliability, flexibility, hard-working, and honesty
* 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 Visas cannot be accepted.
Where you will be working:
Tottle Brook House consists of five bespoke, single-person apartments within a registered care setting with 24-hour nursing support. It provides a robust environment and high intensity care model which is designed to support people who have Learning Disabilities & Autism with highly complex needs and behaviours that challenge, enabling them to live meaningful lives as active members of the community. This includes service users who may be stepping down from hospital or whose community placements have broken down. The aim of the service is to support people to move back to their home area and be closer to their families.
What you will get:
* Annual Salary of £25,350
* The equivalent of 25 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 is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
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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