Senior Support Worker
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Up to £12.20 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 May 2024 |
| Location: | Fazakerley, Liverpool |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Creative Support |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 78326 |
Summary
Are you passionate about delivering high quality, respectful, and person centred care and support to individuals in Fazakerley, Liverpool? Creative Support are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and experienced individual to join us as a Senior Support Worker and lead a passionate and friendly team of staff to support 12 individuals living in their own apartments.
Our service in Fazakerley, Liverpool provides excellent care and support to individuals with a range of support needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and mental health needs. As Senior Support Worker, you will work alongside the Team Leader to assist with the coordination and delivery of high quality outcome-focussed, person centred support to tenants. You will be positive about supporting people to increase their independence and ensure that they are at the centre of all decisions made about their lives.
Your role will include:
- Developing and leading the team to enable the tenants to have a high quality of life, and to be important and valued members of the local community,
- Be responsible for ensuring personal, practical, emotional and social support is delivered at all times,
- Assisting our Team Leaders and Registered manager in ensuring all residents receive the highest quality and care and support,
A full, clean UK driving license is essential for this role. Your full time hours will be worked flexibly according to the needs of the service including daytimes, evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
At least two years’ experience in providing care and support to people with a range of complex support needs is essential for this role. As Senior Support Worker, compassion, motivation, diligence and an ability to empathise with individuals is also essential.
You must be warm, well organised, and conscientious and demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills. You will be required to work on a rota, undertaking early, late and weekend duties as required.
Benefits of working with Creative Support:
We offer all employees competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave. As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS. Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.
Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – Please be aware we are currently at full capacity with our Visa Sponsor Licenses, therefore we are not accepting applicants who are seeking sponsorship.
We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.
We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.
Our service in Fazakerley, Liverpool provides excellent care and support to individuals with a range of support needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and mental health needs. As Senior Support Worker, you will work alongside the Team Leader to assist with the coordination and delivery of high quality outcome-focussed, person centred support to tenants. You will be positive about supporting people to increase their independence and ensure that they are at the centre of all decisions made about their lives.
Your role will include:
- Developing and leading the team to enable the tenants to have a high quality of life, and to be important and valued members of the local community,
- Be responsible for ensuring personal, practical, emotional and social support is delivered at all times,
- Assisting our Team Leaders and Registered manager in ensuring all residents receive the highest quality and care and support,
A full, clean UK driving license is essential for this role. Your full time hours will be worked flexibly according to the needs of the service including daytimes, evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
At least two years’ experience in providing care and support to people with a range of complex support needs is essential for this role. As Senior Support Worker, compassion, motivation, diligence and an ability to empathise with individuals is also essential.
You must be warm, well organised, and conscientious and demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills. You will be required to work on a rota, undertaking early, late and weekend duties as required.
Benefits of working with Creative Support:
We offer all employees competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave. As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS. Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.
Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – Please be aware we are currently at full capacity with our Visa Sponsor Licenses, therefore we are not accepting applicants who are seeking sponsorship.
We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.
We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.