Details:
- Salary: £12.61 - Hour
- Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
- Date: 2 weeks ago
Description:
Lead Supported Living Worker
Mundella Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent - Full time (37.5 hpw) rolling rota including sleep ins
Pay £12.61 per hour (£24,664 per annum) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Home, a place where you belong
Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? As our Lead Supported Living Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have complex mental health needs to develop their skills to live more independently in our registered CQC service. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!
Typical day as a Lead Supported Living Worker
Creating support plans with your customers and coordinating our small team of Support Workers working to the plans.
Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
Supporting customers with their personal care and medication needs outlined in their support plan
Support to attend appointments, take part in hobbies and interests or attend college or work
Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to collaborate with colleagues too.
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!
You bring
You’ll have or be willing to work towards your Level 3 Health and Social Care Certificate
Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working collaboratively with an eye for detail.
Experience of creating person-centred support plans and supporting colleagues in working to work to the plans.
Experience of coordinating and assessing customer referrals.
Able to work using initiative, remaining calm under pressure and have a resilient approach.
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.
Our team
Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join Dani who has been with Home Group for over 6 years and has experience in an array of services and 6 other members of our support team.
Job details
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.
24 hour rota including sleep ins
Able to use technology for creating and updating support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. !
What’s in it for you?
34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
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