Join Our Team as a Senior Support Worker Make Every Day Matter
Are you ready to take the next step in your career with a supportive and well-established team? At MacIntyre, we're looking for a Senior Support Worker to help lead a large, vibrant service where no two days are ever the same.
This is more than just a job. It’s a chance to shape lives, lead by example, and develop your own skills in a role full of variety and purpose.
About the Role
As a Senior Support Worker, you'll take on a key leadership role within the team. Alongside your day-to-day support duties, you'll be responsible for:
* Leading staff handovers and supervising team members
* Supporting new colleagues through inductions and mentoring
* Carrying out compliance checks and following up on any issues
* Working closely with the wider team to ensure high-quality, person-centred support
* Coaching your team and identifying training needs, both formally and informally
* Collaborating with fellow Senior Support Workers and the Registered Manager to ensure smooth and effective service delivery
You’ll act as a role model, ensuring the people we support are empowered to live lives that make sense to them, in line with MacIntyre’s values and vision.
Where You’ll Be Working
You’ll be based at a busy, engaging residential service that up to 34 people call home. The individuals we support live in self-contained flats with access to shared communal areas that encourage socialising and connection. Everyone has different needs, abilities and interests, so no two days are the same and meaningful engagement is at the heart of everything we do.
Working Hours
You’ll work on a rota basis, including days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays, sharing responsibility across the team to ensure consistent, high-quality support.
Why Join Us?
This is a genuine opportunity to grow within a respected and forward-thinking organisation. Whether you're already in a senior role or ready to take that next step, you'll be supported every step of the way.
At MacIntyre, we're passionate about our people the ones we support and the ones we work alongside. Join us and be part of something that truly matters.
Please note, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship as we await further guidance from the Home Office. Applications requiring sponsorship cannot be considered at this time. We appreciate your understanding.
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About you
You will need some experience working with vulnerable people, ideally those with learning disabilities. Perhaps you have been a support worker or care worker / practitioner and are now looking to step up to a more senior role with more responsibilities and greater challenges.
You will need to be flexible and organised, with a positive approach.
You must also be a driver, as you will be driving service vehicles, as well as possibly commuting places, using your own transport.
About us
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.
We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.
Pay and Rewards
We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:
* Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
* Workplace Pension scheme MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
* MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
* Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
* Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
* MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
* Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
* MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
* MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
* Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
* Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)
How to apply
If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV.
Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call usand we will send an application form to you.
Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today.
Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement
MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.
MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. As part of this commitment, our accessibility toolbar allows you a number of options: read adverts in another language (including Welsh for our Services located in Wales), change the font to Open Dyslexia, change the colours, and many others. Just click the button marked “Accessibility” at the top of the screen.
COVID-19 Information
We will take every precaution to keep you and everyone involved safe during the recruitment process and your employment with MacIntyre. We encourage all our employees to follow Government advice and get vaccinated against COVID and flu. If you are a frontline care worker, you are on the priority list for vaccination.