As a Support Worker with Voyage Care, 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 residential service in Langport looks out over the Somerset levels. Family orientated, this beautiful old house has a warm and welcoming feel about it. We enable individuals with learning disabilities, autism, epilepsy and complex care needs including visual impairments. You can be sure that no two days will be the same! You’ll be enhancing the lives of the people we support by assisting with personal care, encouraging them to access their local community including the pub and local shops and having fun by joining in with all manner of different activities.

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.

Requirements

• Full UK driving license
• Resilience
• Flexibility
• Composed approach
• Ideally previous experience of supporting individuals with autism, epilepsy and visual impairments
• A passion for enhancing the quality of life for the people we support
• A desire to learn
• A genuine caring attitude

Responsibilities

• Assisting with personal care
• Encouraging individuals to access their local community (e.g., pub, local shops)
• Joining in with various activities

Benefits

• Salary: £13.06 p/h
• 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
• Sector leading career progression
• Excellent training programme, starting at induction and following you through your career
• Opportunity for promotion and progression
• Job security in a sector leading organisation

Application Process

• All applicants and subsequent job offers will be subject to satisfactory DBS checks and references.

About Voyage Care

We embrace people’s differences and encourage you to Be You. We have a fantastic range of benefits for our staff and we offer sector leading career progression. We encourage our staff to Grow Together through our excellent training programme.