Support Worker Sunderland, North East England, England
Job description
Support Worker
Toward Road, Sunderland
Permanent, Full time (37.5 hpw)
Salary of £21,314 pa, plus Brilliant Benefits including Health Cash Plan!
Empowering customers to live rewarding and happy lives. That’s when it hits home.
We have a fabulous job opportunity for you to join our awesome team as a Support Worker. We support our brilliant customers who have mental health issues.
They live in supported accommodation services which consist of a core building of 9 rooms and 20 dispersed properties which are spread across the City of Sunderland.
We help our customers to achieve their goals and aspirations, supporting them in their recovery and helping them to gain the independent living skills necessary for them to move on into their own accommodation.
We help change our customer’s lives for the better. You’ll play your part by assisting in the delivery of tasks that are based on our customers personal support plans, and their needs and aspirations. You’ll work with our Senior Support Workers and external agencies to assess and engage support for our customers.
We empower our customers to develop the independent living skills they need, to successfully move on. Together we’ll make a difference!
About you
You’re passionate and motivated to help vulnerable people make positive and lasting changes to their lives. You’ll impress us with your ability to work on your own initiative, positively influencing people from all different backgrounds.
You will have some experience in safeguarding, risk assessments, confidentiality, support plans, alongside working collaboratively.
If you’re not the biggest fan of technology, that’s not a problem to us. You do need to know that we are quite a high-tech company and most of our application process and mandatory learning are online. However, we’re glad to support you if you need help.
It would be amazing if you’ve had a job in this type of environment before, however it’s your “can do” positive attitude and enthusiasm that are critical to make this role a success. We can nurture your talent, just let us know in your cover letter why you have a passion for working here!
As this is a community-based job, you’ll need to travel around to spend time with your customers. You could do this role using public transport, or if you drive and have access to a vehicle that would also be amazing! (we pay your expenses to cover this use!)
When you join as a Support Worker, you’ll need to have a valid Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service. The great news is that we will pay for that to be done if you don’t have a transferrable one.
About our team
You’ll be working alongside our fabulous team who are super passionate about supporting customers to reach their goals and celebrating their achievements. To us we’re not just a team we’re a ‘work family’.
Our manager is Rachel, she has been at Home Group for 7 years in different areas of supported accommodation. There are 15 of us in the team and we don’t just love to support our customers, we’re there for each other too! We have a Mental Health Practice Lead, an Occupational Therapist, 3 Lead Support Workers, 6 Support Workers, 2.5 Concierge, a Handyperson and a Cleaner.
Working hours
You’ll work on a rota basis between the hours of 8:00am and 9:15pm and take your turn working days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
We need you to be flexible to meet the needs of our customers, but we aim to give you the time you need to spend time doing the things that matter to you!
Be yourself at Home
Home Group is committed to tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but for our colleagues too! We’re super proud of our internal Diversity Networks and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) which support colleagues from different backgrounds to be their true selves. We recognise and celebrate our differences, together we make Home Group a great place to work!
More about this job
If you’re not reading this advert on our job pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! You can download the support worker job description, and find out more about Home Group. We’ve also got some short films that show you what it’s like to work here, and we know you’ll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards!
Applying for this job
Don’t delay applying for this brilliant job, as we may close it early if we get lots of applications! Just upload your CV and if you have one, your covering letter (this will help us learn more about you!). If you need them, we’ve also got some great templates to help you.
Do let us know if you’d like us to make any adjustments to support you in your application.
