Job Description
Support Worker -(251701)
Description
Support Worker
Southampton
Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw) 8 week rolling rota
Earn £12.60 per hour (£24,638 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 have complex needs to develop their skills to live more independently in the community. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations.
What you’ll do
1. Assisting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.
2. Customer group - mental health supported service men and women between 18-64
3. Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
4. Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
5. 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.
Why join us?
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 have
6. Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail
7. Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children
8. The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach
9. Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs
The practical bits
10. Flexible working hours - currently have a set rota in place with shifts which include sleep in shifts but can be reviewed.
11. Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.
12. We do get together regularly in the daytime for training and team meetings.
13. Able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
14. You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
Stronger together
We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!
What’s in it for you?
15. 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, and time off for volunteering too!
16. Matching pension contribution (up to 7% and life insurance of 3x basic salary)
17. Instant pay access with Stream
18. Family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal, fertility and menopause support
19. Health cash plan saving you (and your children) £1140+ each year covering dental, opticians, prescriptions and more
Find out more
London & South East Supported Portfolio 5