Support Worker - Social Care

Support Worker
Working in Kirk Ella, Hull
Permanent, Temporary, full or part time (x 21 hours) positions available. Working on a rota basis
Pay £11.51 per hour (£22,500 per annum FTE) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Female only staffing due to customer group
Home, a place where you belong
Join us in this great and rewarding job, as our Support Worker (known Internally as Positive Behavioural Support Worker). You’ll join our team to provide person-centred and strengths-based support to our customer and help them reach their full potential.
Typical day as a Support Worker
• Helping our customer overcome barriers and help them lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach their true potential.
• Recognising their strengths and abilities and help them take the small steps at their pace, never losing sight of their dreams and aspirations!
• Supporting our customer using Positive Behavioural Support model to promote independence and social inclusion through person centred support.
• Monitoring our customers’ mental and physical health to identify any signs of deterioration and take positive risk management to their health and wellbeing.
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!
You have
• Experience in a Complex Care setting, with a Level 2 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or are prepared to work towards it.
• Worked as a Support Worker, supporting people with complex needs, or behaviours of distress.
• A patient and calm approach, able to adapt your style to our customer's needs, as well as to the specific occasion and circumstances, even when they challenges us.
• Experience of positive risk management, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role.  This remains under regular review.
Our team
Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!
Job details
• Working on a rota basis
• Although you’ll work nights / lone work, we do get together regularly, in the daytime for training and team meetings.
• Able to use technology to update create and update support plans, communicate with colleagues and complete online learning.
• We’ll make sure you have a fantastic induction with ongoing learning and support.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check to do this job, which we pay for.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
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, the option to buy 5 more, 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!
• Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.
Find out more
Click APPLY NOW to see our PBS Support Worker Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk