Elysium Healthcare
Senior Support Worker
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Job Opportunity: Senior Support Worker
Are you an experienced Senior Support Worker looking to elevate your career, where you can make a real difference and change lives for the better? If so, join Brighton & Hove Clinic in Hove, and provide care for people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs. You will be key in supporting individuals to lead a full and valued life. It’s a career that you can take pride in.
At Brighton & Hove you will have the chance to develop your skills and career. With a huge range of courses on offer, if you have the aspiration, capability, and dedication, Elysium Healthcare can give you the support and opportunities to help you achieve your career goals.
What You Will Be Doing
You will join an inclusive, supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with Mental Health conditions. You will have the opportunity to use your knowledge and skills to help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society.
As a Senior Support Worker some of your key responsibilities will include:
- Organising and overseeing the smooth running of a shift
- Ensuring the wellbeing of all service users
- Responding to any challenges or concerns
- Supervising support staff
- Organising activities
- Administering medication
- Communicating with families and professionals
- Overseeing daily reports, budgets, and completing financial audits
- Completing H&S checks
It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important. It is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of you; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week.
No two days are the same in this role, offering plenty of engagement and motivation. While there's a degree of routine, you can expect a diverse work environment. Our rota includes days, nights, and weekend shifts to ensure a well-balanced team effort.
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The shift pattern is 3-4 days a week including day, night, and weekends on a rota basis. 7:30am to 8pm day shift and 7:30pm to 8am night shift. 37.5 hours per week.
As a Senior Support Worker You Will Have
- Experience as Senior Support Worker or extensive care experience in Mental Health and hold the NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care
- Leadership skills and experience
- Strong empathy and a caring and compassionate nature
- Willingness to support residents with personal hygiene
- Excellent people and communication skills, and a good sense of humour
- Ability to deal with challenging behaviours
- A positive and professional approach
- Reliability, flexibility, hard-working, and honesty
- Be local or within commutable distance
You must live in the UK and have the Right to Work in the UK full time.
20-hour Student and Skilled Worker Visa's cannot be accepted.
Where You Will Be Working
Location: New Church Road Hove BN3 4FH
Brighton & Hove Clinic provides a Children and Young People's Mental Health Service (CYPMHS) Tier 4 Eating Disorder service for young people aged 12 up to 18 years with a primary diagnosis of eating disorder; or an eating difficulty with a co-morbid presentation for example mental health or psychological issues, such as depression, OCD or anxiety, or self-harm.
We are conveniently located on New Church Road in Hove, with excellent public transport links and easy access from Brighton and surrounding areas. While on-site parking is limited, parking permits are available on a rota basis for colleagues who drive.
What You’ll Get
At Elysium Healthcare, we believe in taking care of the people who care for others, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future:
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- An hourly rate of £14.09
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.
- Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals
- Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance
- Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts
- Life Assurance, for added peace of mind
- Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
- 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be
- Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time
- Pension contribution, to help secure your future
- Free meals
About Us
Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure
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