St Anne's Community Services
Support Worker Croft House - Full & Part-time Hours, Flexibility Essential
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Job Overview
Support Worker
Croft House
Starting salary £12.71ph
Rising to £12.91 after successful completion of probation, increasing to £13.45 after a further 12 months in post.
This role involves providing high-quality, person-centred support within a residential home for adults with learning disabilities. The position focuses on promoting independence, dignity, and wellbeing while creating a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment for all residents.
The role is available on both a full-time basis (37.5 hours per week) and part-time options (30 hours and 24 hours per week).
Support Workers are required to work a rota that includes a combination of early shifts (starting at 07:30), late shifts, and sleepover shifts, ensuring continuous care and support for residents. The role demands reliability, adaptability, and a commitment to maintaining consistent, high-quality care standards across all working hours.
This position provides an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals by supporting daily living activities, encouraging social inclusion, and helping residents achieve greater independence and personal goals. This does involve some personal care.
Main duties of the job
The following outlines the key responsibilities of the Support Worker role within a residential care setting for adults with learning disabilities. This list provides an overview of the role and is not an exhaustive representation of all duties required.
- Deliver high-quality, person-centred support, ensuring that each individual’s preferences, needs, and choices are respected at all times.
- Work in accordance with individual support plans, regularly reviewing and updating them to ensure care is delivered in the way each person wishes.
- Support individuals with daily living activities, promoting independence, confidence, and overall wellbeing.
- Administer medication safely and accurately in line with agreed procedures and training.
- Facilitate and support participation in social, recreational, and community-based activities to promote inclusion and quality of life.
- Maintain accurate records, including report writing and the completion of detailed daily interaction notes.
- Support and manage financial transactions on behalf of individuals where required, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Build positive, respectful relationships with individuals, supporting communication and emotional wellbeing.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and professionals to ensure consistent and effective support delivery.
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Working for our organisation
St. Anne's wants to reward its employees for their hard work. Employee benefits include;
- New pay framework launched in 2025. Rewarding the dedication and work of staff across the charity. Potential increases after 6 months, 2.5 & 5 years.
- Rising annual leave each year to a maximum of 33 days (including statutory holidays)
- 24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme
- Continuous opportunities for ongoing training and career development
- Cycle To Work scheme
- Refer A Friend recruitment initiative
- Flexible working opportunities (where applicable) upon successful completion of probation period
- Group Personal Pension Scheme
- Discounted income protection scheme
- Free car parking at most services
- Free life assurance cover
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The following outlines the key responsibilities of the Support Worker role within a residential care setting for adults with learning disabilities. This list provides an overview of the role and is not an exhaustive representation of all duties required.
- Deliver high-quality, person-centred support, ensuring that each individual’s preferences, needs, and choices are respected at all times.
- Work in accordance with individual support plans, regularly reviewing and updating them to ensure care is delivered in the way each person wishes.
- Support individuals with daily living activities, promoting independence, confidence, and overall wellbeing.
- Administer medication safely and accurately in line with agreed procedures and training.
- Facilitate and support participation in social, recreational, and community-based activities to promote inclusion and quality of life.
- Maintain accurate records, including report writing and the completion of detailed daily interaction notes.
- Support and manage financial transactions on behalf of individuals where required, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Build positive, respectful relationships with individuals, supporting communication and emotional wellbeing.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and professionals to ensure consistent and effective support delivery.
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Person specification
Support Worker
Essential criteria
- Personal Experience in Care
- Able to work variety of shifts - Including earlies, lates, sleep ins, weekends and bank holidays
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Personal Care
St. Anne’s is working to actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion.
We want people from underrepresented groups such as disabled, black and ethnic minority, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and non-binary (LGBTQ+) communities to apply for all our roles.
St. Anne's is a Disability Confident employer. We are actively working to recruit and retain people with disabilities and long-term health conditions into our work force. If you are an applicant who has a disability, you will be offered an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the job. Please contact recruitment on 0113 243 5151 opt 5 if you require any reasonable adjustments.
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Support Worker JD (PDF, 151.6KB)
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Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Nigel Balmforth
Job title: First Line Manager
Email address: nigel.balmforth@st-annes.org.uk
Telephone number: 07957146917
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