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Support Worker
Earn £13.45 per hour (£26,300 per annum) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)
West Cornforth, Durham
We can’t offer CoS for this role
Home, a place where you belong
Join us and make a real difference every day. You’ll help customers live independently, feel valued and stay connected. This role is all about care, respect and practical support that improves lives.
What’s in it for you?
- 34 days leave, pro-rated (including bank holidays and a “me day”)
- Paid time off for volunteering
- Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary)
- Save up to £1140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies
- Career path with development and an excellent training package
- Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses
What You’ll Do
- Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, cleaning, supporting to appointments and maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation.
- Understanding and following risk assessments and support reviews.
- Completing detailed support plans and setting personalised, achievable goals with customers. Supporting customers to work on their goals each week, helping to build confidence and achieve meaningful progress.
- General office duties and paperwork, responding to safeguarding incidents, ensuring the service remains fully compliant with health and safety requirements.
- You will need a good knowledge of computer systems as most of our documents are online.
- There is no personal care required for this role just practical and emotional support.
- You will not need any experience handling medications as we are not a CQC service.
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Why join us
This is more than a job; it’s a place where you feel valued. You get great training, support from friendly colleagues and a chance to make a real difference every day. Be part of one of the UK’s top 10 Great Places to Work!
You have
- Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail
- The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach
- Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs
- To get from A to B, you’ll need a valid driving licence and a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!
- Experience with Mental health would be preferred, as this would benefit you in the role with the customers we support.
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The practical bits
- Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.
- Working 5 days a week over 7 days, following a 4-week rolling rota.
- Shifts are 08:00am – 16:00pm, 12:00pm to 20:00, 13:15 – 21:15pm, this will include some weekends.
- Able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
- You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
- Full UK driving licence with business insurance.
Find out more
Click APPLY NOW to see our Support Worker Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out.
For reasonable adjustments email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk.
Work Locations
West Cornforth (Oak Terrace)
Closing Date
Jul.26, 11:59:00 PM
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