Support Worker - Social Care

Support Worker
Swindon, Wiltshire
Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)
Starting salary £23,000 pa, (£11.75 per hour), plus great benefits including health cash plan! Additional Sleep-in and On-Call enhancements
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 (let's call them S) and help them reach their full potential.
S has complex needs, including a moderate learning disability and autism. S is an intelligent, independent, chatty, super direct young lady who is really into gaming, TV, the outdoors and animals, and she loves her spending time with her family, food, and her plushies!
Typical day as our Support Worker
• Helping S overcome barriers and help her lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach her 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 S 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
• With the help of our Team Leaders and clinical team, you’ll help S to participate in her favourite things as well as trying new things through positive risk taking.
• You’ll work alongside colleagues providing a consistent approach when S is finding things difficult as well as find creative ways to help her participate in daily living activities to increase her independence.
S has some sensory processing difficulties, and can react strongly to touch, both in positive and negative ways, as well as being sensitive to strongly smelling toiletries. When stressed or anxious, S may challenge us, and we’ll make sure you are trained to a high standard to manage on those occasions should they occur.
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 10 Great Places 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 great insight and passion for promoting independence and social inclusion through person centred approach.
• A patient and calm approach, able to adapt your style to S's needs, as well as to the specific occasion and circumstances, even when they challenge us.
• Experience of positive risk management, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.
• Ideally understand Makaton, but that’s not a deal breaker!
About our team
You’ll join Deb, our Registered Manager who’s been with Home Group for over 8 years now and has a clinical background as a nurse. She’s a people-person caring for customers and colleagues alike. Deb also loves a house full of family at home and loves to cook for them all although they may not all appreciate her cooking! She’s also into football, theatre and travelling when she gets chance.
Job details
• Based in Swindon, our days team members work between 7am and 10pm.
• Working on a rota basis, you’ll work long days of 15-hour shifts, but work fewer days each week.
• You’ll work days, evenings, weekends, bank holidays and occasional waking nights.
• You might potentially do “sleep ins”, we pay £50 when you cover those.
• You’ll have a fantastic induction with ongoing learning and support!
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
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