Support Worker
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,247 per annum inclusive of 10% market premium |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | Taunton, TA2 6NU |
| Company: | Langley House Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 16c4b9d5-9c41-48a7-9e5c-914069498eba |
Summary
Are you a friendly and client focussed Support Worker with a passion for supporting people and keen to make a positive difference?
We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic Support Worker.
At Langley we believe in equipping our staff to be the best they can be. That means providing excellent support and free training to enable you to make a rewarding difference to people’s lives every day. We have a great opportunity available for a Support Worker to join our flag ship care home based in Taunton on a permanent basis, working 40 hours per week.
The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary of £27,247 per annum (£24,770 plus 10% market premium of £2,477) as well as other generous BENEFITS which include:
- Retention bonuses
- Free onsite meals
- Generous annual leave up to 30 days plus bank holiday holidays
- Fantastic pension scheme, matched up to 8%
- Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary
- Fully funded DBS, renewals and update service subscriptions
- Company sick pay scheme
- ‘Smart Health’, which includes unlimited access to online, telephone and video GP
- Access to private holiday flat in Torquay
- Wellbeing Support – our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme includes free counselling and legal advice
- Eyecare & Flu vouchers
- Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Key work and support clients generally within your project,
- Provide personal care to identified clients
- Take an active role in the assessment and managing client risk in a clear and calm manner.
- Manage client meetings and facilitate the Client Inclusion and Training representatives
- Ensure that all medication within the service is managed in line with Trust policy and procedures.
- Assist in the management of the referral process within the service to achieve agreed occupancy levels
A satisfactory enhanced DBS and Adults Barred List check is required for this role and job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.
For the full job description, please copy and paste this link into your browser https://drive.google.com/file/d/17B08Ks33CPYQV0k_56xBHInUxiGsG9Di/view?usp=drive_link
If you want to join our team as Support Worker please apply now as we would love to hear from you.
Closing date: 14th June 2024
We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.
About LANGLEY
Langley is an innovative Christian charity that provides specialist housing, care and support services in the community, and targeted advice in prisons, for people seeking to live crime-free. With one of the lowest reconvictions rates in the country – under 3% whilst people are in our housing and care – we are changing lives and making communities safer across the country.
We're proud to be accredited as an ‘Investors in People: Gold’ employer, which celebrates the way we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic. This is the third time we have been awarded Investors in People’s Gold standard.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
ED&I is integral to Langley House Trust. We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
DISABILITY CONFIDENT
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.
About HOUSE OF ST MARTIN
House of St Martin is a Registered care home for men with multiple needs, including substance misuse, mental health needs or a learning disability. It is located three miles from Taunton and set in six acres of beautiful countryside. The home is registered to support 31 men, offering full-board catering. We provide a safe calm environment from which men can plan their next steps and grow in independence.