Senior Support Worker
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Up to £12.20 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | Salford, Greater Manchester |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Creative Support |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 78336 |
Summary
Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs. We have a new exciting role for a Senior Support Worker to join our team in Salford.
We are looking for a motivated, resourceful and experienced individual to work in our Intensive Support Services in Salford. We provide support across 2 shared supported living services and 4 flats in the Salford area. We support service users who have a range of needs including learning disabilities and intensive support needs. These are fantastic services that enable great outcomes for the people we support.
We are looking for staff who have the commitment and dedication to go the extra mile to enable people to achieve their personal goals. We provide an empowering model of support to individuals with learning and intensive support needs, enabling them to lead fulfilling and happy lives. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to be involved in the running of vibrant homely services where we adopt a Positive Behaviour Support Model with input from our dedicated PBS Team.
Your role will include:
• Providing respectful personal care, administering medication and supporting service users with daily domestic tasks such as cooking/cleaning,
• Maximise service user outcomes by working closely with the service user, their family and friends, staff and involved professionals such as the PBS Team
• Developing and managing staff, including staff training, supervision and appraisal,
• Supporting managers with business planning and service developments,
• Supporting managers Quality Assurance and CQC compliance
A minimum of two years’ experience of providing care and support to people support needs and a level 3 in Health and Social Care is essential. You should have experience of supporting and supervising a staff team. You must be willing to work flexibly on a rota according to the needs of the service including sleep-ins.
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.
We are looking for a motivated, resourceful and experienced individual to work in our Intensive Support Services in Salford. We provide support across 2 shared supported living services and 4 flats in the Salford area. We support service users who have a range of needs including learning disabilities and intensive support needs. These are fantastic services that enable great outcomes for the people we support.
We are looking for staff who have the commitment and dedication to go the extra mile to enable people to achieve their personal goals. We provide an empowering model of support to individuals with learning and intensive support needs, enabling them to lead fulfilling and happy lives. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to be involved in the running of vibrant homely services where we adopt a Positive Behaviour Support Model with input from our dedicated PBS Team.
Your role will include:
• Providing respectful personal care, administering medication and supporting service users with daily domestic tasks such as cooking/cleaning,
• Maximise service user outcomes by working closely with the service user, their family and friends, staff and involved professionals such as the PBS Team
• Developing and managing staff, including staff training, supervision and appraisal,
• Supporting managers with business planning and service developments,
• Supporting managers Quality Assurance and CQC compliance
A minimum of two years’ experience of providing care and support to people support needs and a level 3 in Health and Social Care is essential. You should have experience of supporting and supervising a staff team. You must be willing to work flexibly on a rota according to the needs of the service including sleep-ins.
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.
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