Lead Support Worker
| Posting date: | 11 April 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN25 3PF |
| Company: | Home Group Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 231370 |
Summary
Lead Support Worker
Swindon, Wiltshire
Permanent, Full time (37.5 hpw)
Salary of £25,500 pa plus sleep-in and on-call enhancements, great benefits including health cash plan!
Home, a place where you belong
Join us in this great and rewarding job, as our Lead Support Worker (known Internally as Positive Behavioural Support Team Leader). You’ll manage 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 care needs, including a moderate learning disability, autism, communication challenges, ADHD, some sensory processing challenges as well as a diagnosis of psychosis.
S, who's in her late teens, is an intelligent, independent, chatty and super direct young lady who enjoys her imaginary friends! S needs a dedicated and positive team to help her reach her full potential. 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.
As our Team Leader you'll help S overcome her barriers to help her lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach her true potential. You'll recognise her strengths and abilities and help her take the small steps at her pace, never losing sight of her dreams and aspirations! You're patient and calm, able to adapt your style to S's needs, as well as to the specific occasion and circumstances, even when she challenges us.
Typical day as our Lead Support Worker
- Helping S 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 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.
- Motivating, directing, guiding, coaching and supporting your team to work with our customers.
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
- Experience in CQC Regulated services, with a Level 3 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or equivalent.
- Worked as a Senior Support Worker, leading support for people with complex needs, or behaviours of distress.
- A patient and calm approach, able to adapt your style to X's needs, as well as to the specific occasion and circumstances, even when they challenge us.
- Great people management and motivation skills, bringing colleagues together to share information, best practice and fostering creativity.
- Experience of positive risk management, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.
- To help S get out and about, it will be ideal if you’re a driver and insured for business purposes, although it’s not a deal breaker!
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.
About our team
You’ll report to Deb our Registered Manager who has worked for Home Group over 5 years now! Deb has loads of experience supporting customers with learning disabilities and has a clinical background in nursing. Deb is perfectly placed to help you settle into your new role! Outside of work you’ll find her planning her next trip as she travels the world via the alphabet! You’ll also join Ellie our deputy manager and our clinical team who are regular visitors who provide you with all the support you need!
Job details
- Our team provide 24/7 support to SM to meet her needs, and there are potential sleep in shifts and on-call shifts too (which we pay enhancements for)
- You’re 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 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?
- 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) 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 matter 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 the PBS Team Leader Job Description, find out about us and help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay applying or you might miss out.
Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
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