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Supported Living Worker - CQC - Social Care
| Posting date: | 22 March 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £10.90 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 April 2024 |
| Location: | Wallsend, Tyne & Wear |
| Company: | Home Group Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 24623 |
Summary
Supported Living Worker - CQC Accommodation Based
Homeside Lodge, Wallsend
Permanent, part-time (33hpw) Waking Night position available, rota working
Pay £10.90 per hour (£21,314 per annum, increasing to £23,464 in April 2024) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Home, a place where you belong
We have a fantastic opportunity for a brilliant Support Worker like you to join our fabulous and supportive team. Our Extra Care Community Wellbeing service in Wallsend provides support to our brilliant customers who are aged 55 and over. Rated Good across all areas at our recent CQC inspection, we are proud and passionate about the high standards of care and support that we deliver.
Our Care team provide support to up to 45 customers who live at Homeside Lodge. We support our brilliant customers to maintain their independence in their own self-contained flats within a large community wellbeing scheme. Our brilliant Care staff provide support with all aspects of personal care, medication administration and ensuring our customers’ nutritional and hydration needs are met.
Our customers have a range of care and housing needs inclusive of dementia, complex health and learning disabilities and our staff are trained in providing the best care to suit their needs. We fully promote enablement ensuring our customers are living as independently as possible within their home.
Typical day as our Supported Living Worker
• 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.
• Support to attend appointments, take part in hobbies and interests or attend college or work
• Supporting customers with their personal care and medication needs outlined in their support plan
• 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 Place to Work in the UK!
You have
• A Level 2 Health and Social Care Certificate or are prepared to work towards it!
• Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail
• 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
• Experience of working on own initiative, remaining calm under pressure and having a resilient approach
• A flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs, recognising every customer is different
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
Our team describe themselves as super friendly and approachable. In fact, when new members have joined us in the past, it’s been said that they felt welcomed by colleagues and our customers from day one! We’re also super passionate about supporting customers and celebrating their achievements.
With colleagues as warm and team spirited as ours, we’re not just a team we’re a “work family”! Our Registered Manager is Andrew, who is passionate about driving quality and compliance in all aspects of the care and support that we provide to our vulnerable customers. But we don’t just love to support our customers, we’re there for each other too! You will be working alongside four Coordinators and our Client Service Manager to support and lead our amazing team of Support Workers to provide the highest standards of care to our older customers.
Job details
• At Homeside Lodge, we provide 24-hour support to our customers each day and every day. You’ll work on a rolling rota basis and take your turn working days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
• We need you to be flexible to meet the needs of our customers, but we aim to give you the time you need to spend time doing the things that matter to you!
• 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 supported living 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
Homeside Lodge, Wallsend
Permanent, part-time (33hpw) Waking Night position available, rota working
Pay £10.90 per hour (£21,314 per annum, increasing to £23,464 in April 2024) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Home, a place where you belong
We have a fantastic opportunity for a brilliant Support Worker like you to join our fabulous and supportive team. Our Extra Care Community Wellbeing service in Wallsend provides support to our brilliant customers who are aged 55 and over. Rated Good across all areas at our recent CQC inspection, we are proud and passionate about the high standards of care and support that we deliver.
Our Care team provide support to up to 45 customers who live at Homeside Lodge. We support our brilliant customers to maintain their independence in their own self-contained flats within a large community wellbeing scheme. Our brilliant Care staff provide support with all aspects of personal care, medication administration and ensuring our customers’ nutritional and hydration needs are met.
Our customers have a range of care and housing needs inclusive of dementia, complex health and learning disabilities and our staff are trained in providing the best care to suit their needs. We fully promote enablement ensuring our customers are living as independently as possible within their home.
Typical day as our Supported Living Worker
• 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.
• Support to attend appointments, take part in hobbies and interests or attend college or work
• Supporting customers with their personal care and medication needs outlined in their support plan
• 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 Place to Work in the UK!
You have
• A Level 2 Health and Social Care Certificate or are prepared to work towards it!
• Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail
• 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
• Experience of working on own initiative, remaining calm under pressure and having a resilient approach
• A flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs, recognising every customer is different
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
Our team describe themselves as super friendly and approachable. In fact, when new members have joined us in the past, it’s been said that they felt welcomed by colleagues and our customers from day one! We’re also super passionate about supporting customers and celebrating their achievements.
With colleagues as warm and team spirited as ours, we’re not just a team we’re a “work family”! Our Registered Manager is Andrew, who is passionate about driving quality and compliance in all aspects of the care and support that we provide to our vulnerable customers. But we don’t just love to support our customers, we’re there for each other too! You will be working alongside four Coordinators and our Client Service Manager to support and lead our amazing team of Support Workers to provide the highest standards of care to our older customers.
Job details
• At Homeside Lodge, we provide 24-hour support to our customers each day and every day. You’ll work on a rolling rota basis and take your turn working days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
• We need you to be flexible to meet the needs of our customers, but we aim to give you the time you need to spend time doing the things that matter to you!
• 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 supported living 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
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