Support Worker

Support Worker – Holmewood - £11.57ph Typical Shifts are: Mornings 07:30-14:30 & Afternoons 14:30-21:30 or Days 07:30-21:30  Join Voyage Care and Feel Valued, we reward your dedication with: •    Enhanced evening and weekend pay at an additional 50p per hour (Ts & Cs apply) •    Premium overtime rates at an additional £1 per hour (Ts & Cs apply) •    Wagestream – giving you the flexibility to draw upon up to 40% of your pay, as it is earned. •    Funded Blue Light Card – hundreds of discounts at high street retailers etc. •    24/7/365 doctor line for our colleagues and their families •    Access to cash plans for our colleagues, which also covers their families •    Enhanced retirement leave •    Long service awards We’re on the hunt for genuinely caring, hands-on female* Support Workers with a passion for enhancing the quality of life of the people we support. As a support worker with us you'll be helping people to gain more independence in their daily lives, whilst working within a dynamic team to support a fantastic group of people! Our 48 Heath Road residential service in Holmewood is a welcoming and friendly environment and you can be sure that no two days will be the same! You’ll be enhancing the lives of the people we support by teaching them new life skills, assisting with personal care, encouraging them to access their local communities, socialising and doing lots of activities. At 48 Heath Road we specialise in supporting people who have learning disabilities, autism, and challenging behaviours. We work primarily with younger adults who have complex needs and a primary diagnosis of learning disabilities, autism, epilepsy or severe challenging behaviours. The overarching aim of our home is to provide high quality, responsive and flexible individual support, care and/or treatment programmes that are designed to meet the needs and wishes of each person we support. We very much welcome friends and family members visiting the home at any time and genuinely believe in an “open door” policy. Everyone is supported to live a full and active life and empowered to make informed choices. This is an amazing role for someone who is looking to really make a difference to someone's life and to help them grow in confidence and independence so that they meet their goals, whether this be making dinner by themselves or going on holiday. We’re interested in our Support Workers having both the right experience and the right values. This is why at this service our Support Workers should be resilient, flexible and composed in their approach, and have experience working with individuals with autism, learning disabilities and challenging behaviours. Why choose us? We embrace people’s differences and encourage you to Be You, and so long as you’ve got the passion to make someone’s life better, we can give you all the skills and development opportunities you need to build a great career. We encourage our staff to Grow Together through our excellent training programme, starting at induction and following you through your career, with opportunity for promotion and progression as well as job security in a sector leading organisation. We have a fantastic range of benefits for our staff and we offer sector leading career progression, so don't hesitate to apply today and make a real difference to the lives of the people we're supporting!  All applicants and subsequent job offers will be subject to satisfactory DBS checks and references. * Some of our roles require male or female employees only, where this is indicated it is a genuine occupational requirement, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010