Support Worker

Support Worker

Support Worker

Home Group

2 hours ago

No application

About

  • Support Worker
  • Earn £12.60 per hour (£24,638 per annum, pro rata) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
  • Permanent, Part time (22.5 hpw)
  • Redcar, Cleveland
  • We can’t offer a CoS for this role
  • Home, a place where you belong
  • Join us and make a real difference every day. You’ll help customers live independently, feel valued and stay connected. This role is all about care, respect and practical support that improves lives.
  • What’s in it for you?
  • 34 days leave, pro-rated (including bank holidays and a “me day”)
  • Paid time off for volunteering
  • Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%25, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary)
  • Save up to £1140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies
  • Career path with development and an excellent training package
  • Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses
  • What you’ll do
  • Assist customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.
  • Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
  • Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
  • Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to work together with colleagues too.
  • Customer group - Mental health, learning disabilities and physical health
  • Why join us
  • This is more than a job, it’s a place where you feel valued. You get great training, support from friendly colleagues and a chance to make a real difference every day. Be part of one of the UK’s top 10 Great Places to Work!
  • You have
  • Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail
  • Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children
  • The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach
  • Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs
  • Stronger together
  • We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!
  • The practical bits
  • Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.
  • There will be different shifts such as 7am-3pm, 9am-5pm or 11am-7pm.
  • Able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
  • You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
  • What’s in it for you?
  • 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, and time off for volunteering too!
  • Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
  • Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
  • We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
  • Find out more
  • Click APPLY NOW to see our Support Worker Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Roles can close early, so don’t wait.
  • For reasonable adjustments email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk