Support Worker Waking Nights - Social Care
Support Worker Waking Nights
Tyne and Wear, Gateshead
Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
£12 per hour (£23,464 per annum) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan!
Home, a place where you belong
Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? As our Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who are fleeing domestic abuse you will help develop their skills to live more independently.You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!
Calling all night owls! Prefer staying awake and working through the night rather than snoozing away like the rest of us? We’re looking for a dedicated night worker who won’t fall asleep on the job. If you’re as energised as a new Duracell bunny with the alert skills of a meerkat, this is the job for you!
Typical day as our Support Worker
Assisting customers with practical tasks to develop their independence and helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.Supporting female customers fleeing domestic abuse.
Helping customers with daily living activities like, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation.
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.
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 Places to Work in the UK!
You bring
Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detailExperience 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.
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
You’ll join Kelly Hope and our lovely team that we call the Astell Angel, we’re super passionate about what we do! We’re really proud of being the only domestic abuse refuge in Gateshead and we are a supportive bunch.
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
Work pattern is a rolling rota of 4 nights on and 4 nights off.Although you’ll work nights / lone work, we do get together regularly in the day time for training and team meetings.
You’ll be 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.
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.
Learn more about our benefits on our website.
Find out more
Click APPLY NOW to see our 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 .