Support Worker - Adults

Job Title: Support Worker - Adults

Location: Southampton

Salary: £23,816.00 + sleep in - increased to £24,024.00 per annum (+sleep in pay) following a successful 6-month probation period.

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Various locations across Southampton & Fareham

**Please note we are NOT ABLE TO OFFER SPONSORSHIP for any of our vacancies**

About us:

Assure Health Group provides a safe nurturing environment in which individual adults aged between 18 and 65 years can pursue their personal needs and aspirations amidst homely surroundings and with supportive, caring staff.

About the role:

The health and wellbeing of our service users are paramount, we are looking for support workers that are passionate in helping us in provide this.

Your role will be in creating a respectful culture and ethos within the home setting. Encouraging the service users to achieve their full potential whilst undertaking varied and stimulating activities throughout the day with your support. Using your skills and experience gained in similar roles to achieve this or an opportunity to develop new ones.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Working as a team to providing a safe, warm, caring, and stable environment for the service users in our care with disabilities, complex needs, metal health disorders and/or challenging behaviours.
• Managing challenging behaviour.
• Personal care.
• Promote daily living skills such as cooking, shopping, and cleaning.
• Promote social integration, self-reliance, life skills, independence, and confidence.
• Undertake support worker responsibilities.
• Supporting with individualised care plans.
• Remain updated with documentation, records in line with the organisational and CQC regulations.
• Keep knowledgeable with relevant legislation and policies.

This role involves shift work, including availability to work weekends and there may be the requirement for sleep ins at your service. Further information regarding shift patterns/sleep ins will be discussed at the interview stage.

About you:

Desirably we are looking for those with a minimum 6 months to a year in the UK care sector, with support worker experience working with mental, emotional support, learning disability, and other complex needs.

You will need to be reliable, energetic, possess effective communication skills and able to work in a team. You will have experience supporting those with challenging behaviours and understand how to effectively manage these situations. You will also be willing to provide our service users with personal care as required.

You thrive on supporting our service users to enjoy life whilst attending to their physical, medical, and emotional wellbeing with compassionate and empathy.

Essential Requirements:

• UK resident or right to work in UK (proof of this will be required).
• Be computer literate.
• Compliant to our safer recruitment policy, whereby you will undergo rigorous pre-employment checks, which will include obtaining satisfactory references, relevant enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check, proof of right to work, verified full working history among other required checks/verification in line with this policy.
• Due to the nature of the work you will be required to work long shifts, and these include weekends and there may be sleep ins required (please check requirements at interview stage).

Desirable Requirements:

• Minimum of 6 months relevant experience working as a support worker in the UK.
• Ideally hold a full UK driving license.

Benefit:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Thorough onboarding, induction, and training programme
• 30 days holiday per year.
• Ongoing training and career development with the opportunity to progress to Team Leader and beyond.
• Work in a supportive and friendly team.
• Casual dress.
• Regular check ins with you line manager.
• Rewarding work.
• Access to Perk box discounts.

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Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Support Worker, At Home Care Assistant, Homecare Assistant, Care Assistant, Support Worker, Enabler, Carer, Residential Adult Support Worker, Residential Supported Living, Residential Adult Support Worker, Care Worker, Care Assist, Care Coordinator, Care Assistant, Social Worker, Vulnerable Adult, Support Assistant, Adult Support Worker, Special Needs Support, Adult Care Assistant, Mental Health Support will be considered for this role