Part Time Night Support Worker

Part Time Night Support Worker Cranborne

The Aurora Group
Full Time Cranborne 26617 - 28697 GBP annum Today
Job description

Overview and Responsibilities

Location: Cranborne, Dorset

Hourly Rate: £11.00 - £12.00 + £25 per night shift worked

Annual Salary: £12,515.36 - £14,200.12 

Hours: 7.45pm-8.15am- 2/3 night shifts per week depending on the rota (21.88 hours per week)

About Us

At our Aurora Boveridge College, we support young people between the ages of 16 and 25 who have additional social, emotional, autism and mental health needs.

We’re currently looking for a Part Time Night Support Workers to assist our students in their homes (on-site) (no personal care responsibilities). Come and join our exciting team and make a difference.

Our working environment is amazing - To take a virtual tour around our site, click here; Boveridge Virtual Tour

The role

As a  Night support worker you play an important role with our young people you are not just night support worker you can make a difference to our young people life’s

No experience needed – Increased rates for those with experience

Your role will be to help prepare the awesome young people we support for adult life and facilitating their transition into further education, training, or employment.

Following a handover from our day team you’ll support our students with their evening routine, you will mentor and support our young people in their evening activities, sports, or hobbies both on and off site and ensuring they settle for night. This will be with the use of verbal and visual prompting dependent on the need of the student. 

You’ll also provide a key liaison point for parent and carers and ensure all health/medical needs are looked after throughout the night

You will be the listening ear and emotional support for young people to talk to after a busy day

The key to this role will be your ability to participate and to motivate whilst ensuring our students develop their own independent living skills.

Skills and Qualifications

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate (No experience need – we’ll fund all your training):

  • Willingness to participate, be positive and creative in meeting our young person’s needs
  • Able to support and develop independence skills such as budgeting, cooking, housekeeping as well as accessing the wider community
  • Ability to prompt / encourage in a positive manner whilst providing social/emotional behavioural support
  • Ability to show a strong understanding of what “good care” looks like and how to put the young person’s needs first, whilst empowering them to be independent
  • Due to our rural location access to transport and a drivers licence is essential
  • Given the age of our students all applicants must be 21 and over

Benefits and Additional Information

Benefits and Additional Information

  • Full training with the opportunity to study the Level 3 diploma in Health and Social Care (funded by us!) and CPD pathway for progressing
  • The little perks of appreciation, chocolates, food, tea & coffee pods, Christmas hampers etc
  • Well-being checks with our Mental first aiders & Well being Champions
  • Full management support
  • Life assurance
  • Pension
  • Perkbox - offering high street discounts
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Car lease scheme
  • Fully funded training and qualifications
  • Bike to work scheme
  • Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For the full job description and break down of duties, please contact Adele from the recruitment team on /

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are spent unless they are protected under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.

#Reed FTE: £26,617 - £28,697

Part Time Night Support Worker
The Aurora Group

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