Waking Night Support Worker

Waking Night Support Worker Sheffield, England

Hft
Full Time Sheffield, England 10.42 GBP HOURLY Today
Job description

Location

Sheffield

Discipline:

Care and Support

Job type:

Permanent

Salary:

£10.42

Contact name:

Zoe Mountcastle

Contact email:

[email protected]

Job ref:

006364

Published:

4 days ago

Expiry date:

21 Jun 2023 23:59

Location: S8

#Care to join us?

We are looking for Waking Nights Support Workers to join our friendly and welcoming team here at Hft. This is your chance to make a real difference to people's lives.

Experience is not essential as we provide all the training you need to be a confident support worker. Whether you are an experienced professional or completely new to the world of care, we want you to be a compassionate and friendly individual, who shares our Values.

What matters most is a positive attitude to life and a desire to support people to live their life with as much independence, choice, dignity and control as possible. You will need to have good listening skills and a practical, caring approach.

Everything you do will enable people to have choices about their own lives, providing flexible services that meet people’s needs, and always looking for the best way of doing things.

What will you be doing?
As a waking night support worker at Hft you’ll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible. In this caring and creative role, everything you do will enable people to have choices about their own lives, creating flexible services that meet people’s needs and always looking for the best way of doing things.

Waking night support workers are required to remain awake throughout the night to support individuals as required.

The role is tailored to the needs of the individual(s) you will be supporting. The tasks can include:

    Assisting with taking medication
    Monitoring people we support due to medical needs, such as seizures
    Provide support during the night when the people you are supporting are awake and are struggling to go back to sleep
    Support with personal care
    Updating files such as finance logs and support plans
    General household tasks, such as cleaning, washing and ironing
    Performing security checks, including fire checks

What’s in it for you?

There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training, and support along the way.

If you do not already have a relevant qualification in Health and Social Care, Hft will fully fund and provide training for you to obtain your Diploma in a Health and Social Care within the first 18 months of your employment.

With Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people to live the best life possible.

As a ‘Gold’ standard Investors in People accredited employer, we are committed to supporting colleague wellbeing as a priority. Within this, all Hft employees get access to the LifeWorks – the world’s biggest 24/7 colleague counselling and support service. It is completely free for all colleagues to use in complete confidence, whenever and however they want to access it.

We offer

    25 days annual leave (plus 8 days statutory Bank holidays)
    20% bank holidays allowance with an increased rate of 50% for Christmas Day, Boxing day and New Years Day
    Apprenticeships - Earn whilst gaining a fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care with a Top 100 apprenticeship employer (ranked 11th in 2020)
    Access to award-winning training and development
    Annual staff award scheme
    A contributory pension scheme & life assurance
    Free DBS Check

Find your place with us and change lives.










STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.

Hft's usual terms and conditions apply. Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do. Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment.

We ask all our teams to take advantage of the Covid-19 vaccination, which is offered to frontline support workers as a priority group. We strongly encourage all colleagues to remain fully vaccinated as part of our wider infection control procedures.

Waking Night Support Worker
Hft

www.hft.org.uk
Bristol, United Kingdom
Kirsty Matthews
$100 to $500 million (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Non-profit Organisation
Civic, Welfare & Social Services
1962
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