Lead Support Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 Mawrth 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £16.14 yr awr |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Weymouth, DT4 9DD |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Dimensions |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | D019410 |
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Lead Support Worker - Weymouth
(37.5 hours per week)
FULL UK/EU Driving Licence is essential
About Dimensions - Bring your passion, leadership and heart to a role where your impact truly counts. As a Lead Support Worker, you'll help others grow—both the people we support and the colleagues you'll coach along the way. With the support of your locality management team, you'll empower others to achieve meaningful goals, build independence and create positive change every single day.
Thanks to our amazing teams, Dimensions Group has been accredited as a Great Place to Work for 2025 — our seventh consecutive year of recognition.
About the role
As a Lead Support Worker, you'll play an important role in ensuring the people we support receive high-quality, person-centred care. Working closely with your locality manager and assistant locality manager, you'll be supported while also becoming a trusted guide for your colleagues to ensure consistency is followed. This role blends hands-on support with leadership, offering you the chance to make a meaningful difference every day.
Your work will be varied and rewarding. You'll help people build independence, develop new skills and make choices that reflect the life they want to live. Using approaches such as Active Support that's links to outcomes, you'll set meaningful goals and recognise the potential in everyday moments. You'll support colleagues to ensure Support plans are being followed correctly to ensure Support given to the people we support with daily routines from personal care and medication to meal preparation, shopping and maintaining a comfortable home ensuring each person feels respected and involved in their own support.
Alongside this, you'll play a key part in coaching and mentoring support workers. You'll share good practice, offer mindful feedback and help create a positive, inclusive team culture. You'll contribute to reviews, support continuous improvement and work in line with Dimensions' values, policies and regulatory standards. Building strong relationships with families, circles of support and colleagues will be central to your role.
If you're someone who leads with compassion, enjoys empowering others and finds purpose in helping people live fulfilling lives, you'll feel valued and inspired in this role.
About you
You will be a great fit for this role if you:
- Lead with empathy, confidence and a genuine desire to help people live the lives they choose.
- Are motivated by making a meaningful difference and empowering others to grow.
- Enjoy balancing hands-on support with mentoring and guiding other team members.
- Communicate clearly, offer constructive feedback, and naturally lead by example.
- Build strong, trusting relationships with families, colleagues and the people we support.
- Value working in a way that is inclusive, supportive and person-centred and consistent.
- Appreciate being part of a team where everyone's ideas and contributions matter.
- Motivation to help people build independence and confidence, whether they are colleagues or the people we support.
Rewards that make a difference
- A competitive payrate with uplift for overtime you chose to work
- Flexible shift patterns to suit your needs
- 30 days paid?Annual Leave?(including public holidays - pro rata)
- Opportunities for?career progression
- We offer a salary advance scheme where you can access up to 50% of the money you've earned before payday.
- High Street Discounts - Retail and Entertainment (supermarkets, hospitality, pubs, cinema etc.)
- Life Assurance and Company Pension
- Industry leading training
- Enhanced DBS paid for by us
Apply now
- An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.
- We welcome applications from everyone who has the right to work in the UK, and value diversity in our workforce
- As Disability Confident Leaders,we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy - Dimensions has been awarded this symbol by Jobcentre Plus to recognise our commitment towards the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees
- As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 03003039150
- We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all of our recruitment communications
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