Lead Support Worker
| Posting date: | 24 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £13.54 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 July 2025 |
| Location: | Market Drayton, TF9 1AA |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Dimensions |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | D019043 |
Summary
Join Our Team as a Lead Support Worker in Market Drayton (TF9)
Location: Market Drayton, TF9 (Just a 2 min drive from Beacon Community Centre)
Pay Rate: £13.54 per hour
Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)
Are you ready to take the next step in your support career? If you're passionate about empowering adults with learning disabilities and have experience in supported living or residential care, this is your opportunity to lead by example and make a measurable difference every day.
About the RoleWe're looking for a confident and proactive Lead Support Worker to join our team in Market Drayton. You'll be supporting individuals with learning disabilities and complex needs in a supported living setting, helping them live independently and with purpose.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll guide and inspire your team, implement Dimensions' person-centred 'Activate' model, and ensure high-quality support is delivered consistently. You'll be part of a service that values creativity, positivity, and teamwork.
What Will You Be Doing?As a Lead Support Worker, you'll be:
- Leading by Example: Supporting individuals directly while mentoring and guiding your team.
- Promoting Independence: Helping people make choices and live life on their terms.
- Managing Support Plans: Ensuring care is delivered in line with individual needs and preferences.
- Collaborating with Professionals: Working with families, health teams, and other stakeholders.
- Championing Best Practice: Upholding Dimensions' values and promoting a positive, inclusive culture.
This role includes sleep-ins, weekends, and bank holidays, with shift patterns discussed during the interview process.
What Are We Looking For?We're looking for someone who is:
- Experienced in Support Work: Ready to step into a leadership role.
- Confident & Compassionate: Able to lead with empathy and clarity.
- Proactive & Positive: Brings energy and ideas to the team.
- Team-Oriented: Values collaboration and communication.
Why Choose Dimensions?
- Award-Winning Workplace: Recognised as one of the UK's best workplaces in the 'super large' category by the Great Place to Work Institute seven years in a row.
- Generous Leave: 30 days annual leave pro rata with the option to buy and sell leave.
- Career Development: Paid training and opportunities to further develop your career through funded accredited courses.
- Well-Being Focus: Comprehensive well-being strategy and staff listening network.
- Values-Driven: We put people with learning disabilities and their families at the heart of everything we do.
- Referral Bonus: Receive a £200 bonus if you refer a friend and they're successfully employed.
- Additional Perks: Bike to Work scheme, discounts on meals, shopping, entertainment, and gym memberships.
Other Important Information
- Immediate Reviews: Applications are reviewed upon receipt and interviews will continue until positions are filled.
- Equality Commitment: Gender is considered a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 where mentioned. In this context, "gender" refers to the sex legally assigned to an individual.
- DBS Disclosure: An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be covered by Dimensions.
- Inclusive Workforce: We welcome applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK and value diversity in our workforce.
- Disability Confident: We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
- BSL Support: British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos are available for all of our recruitment communications.
Ready to make a real difference? Apply now and join a team that values you and the incredible work you do!
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme