Support Worker

The Orpheus Centre is an independent specialist college in Godstone, Surrey and aims to promote personal development through the arts. All staff are expected to understand and contribute to the strategic aim of the College as set out in the Strategic Plan.
Our core values are to be joyful, bold, inclusive, resilient and determined. These core values are the foundations for all our work and are what the organisation stands for.
We are currently seeking to appoint a part-time Support Worker (nights) at our SEN College.
As a Support Worker, you will be responsible for supporting our young people by providing physical and emotional care. This involves working as part of a team to maintain a stable, happy and caring environment that puts the health, safety and welfare of our young people first. Basic but vital parts of this include regular and punctual attendance at work, the need to act professionally and to be a good role model for people who use our services and other staff. A Support Worker may be required to work in any part of the establishment and do other shifts as the service requires.
Everything we do at Orpheus is concerned with enabling young disabled adults to live life to the fullest, in particular with respect to developing confidence and skills for work and independence living.
A full time Support Worker (nights) would follow a regular two-week shift pattern of 40 hours per week made up of 3x 12 hour nights shifts (7pm – 7am) and 1x 4 hour twilight shift (6pm – 10pm) / 52 weeks per year.
However, we currently have a business need for a part-time Support Worker to cover 2x 12 hour night shifts (7pm – 7am) per week, days to be confirmed.
Salary: £14,976 per annum [FTE £24,960]
Excellent benefits including enhanced employer pension contributions, Employment Assistant Program (EAP), paid days off for dependants, bereavement leave, death in service, free staff lunches and training and development opportunities.
Essential qualifications, knowledge skills and experience:
Good level of Maths, English and IT skills
Experience of supporting young people or adults with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
Have an understanding of the range of different types of learning difficulties and disabilities
Willingness to maintain and update personal specialist skills and knowledge through engaging with appropriate professional development activities and training
Good computer literacy and administrative skills
Innovative and creative
Sense of humour
Caring and patient attitude
Excellent people skills
Ability to work well in a team and foster good relationships within a multidisciplinary work force.
Must have the ability to communicate effectively with other professionals, colleagues, students and families/carers.
Orpheus is committed to safeguarding and promotes the welfare of all service users. As part of our safer recruitment process and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023, online searches will form part of this process. We are committed to the promotion of equal opportunities.
This post is classed as having a high degree of contact with vulnerable adults and is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. It is therefore subject to an Enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure Barring Service.
The Orpheus Centre is proud to be a disability confident employer.We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people. Reasonable adjustments will be made to the recruitment procedure as required in consultation with the applicant to ensure no-one is disadvantaged because of their disability. If a disabled person is selected for a position, reasonable adjustments will be made to the workplace, including premises and equipment, work duties and practices or policies, as appropriate. All disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role as set out in the role profile and person specification will be guaranteed an interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are:
Challenging attitudes towards disability
Increasing understanding of disability
Removing barriers to disabled people and those with long-term health conditions
Ensuring that disabled people have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspiration