Senior Support Worker - Surrey Day Service
We have an exciting opportunity for a senior support worker to work in our day centre based in Godalming. You will be working with autistic adults and their families in a range of environments that support the service users' needs.
Birch House Service :
- Supports 25 individuals, with Learning disabilities and Autism.
- The sessions we offer include shopping, day trips, swimming, cookery, gardening (allotment), woodwork, travel training and arts and crafts.
- The service also provides support for people who would like to move on to the next step, whether it be living independently, learning to drive or finding a job
You will be a valued member of our support team and have a working knowledge of care standards and related legislation and have good report writing skills. You should be able demonstrate how you are able to lead and motivate a team to reach agreed outcomes and uphold the values of the organisation.
You should have a NVQ Level 3 Qualification or equivalent and have good IT skills and a basic knowledge of MS Office.
This is the opportunity to develop new skills and the role includes:
- Supporting adults to achieve their goals.
- To guide, prompt, support individuals to undertake activities and learn new skills.
- To be part of a team around key individuals.
- Support with mentoring, development and supervision of team members.
- Assist with day-day management of running the service.
- To be aware of the role of the relevant care regulatory body (CQC) and the statutory standards required for the work setting.
- Assist to develop and maintain a responsive support service to people with autism.
Please click here for a copy of the job description
In addition, we offer a whole range of benefits including:
- Excellent training and development programme
- Career progression opportunities
- Enhanced overtime. Additional payments for sleep-in and on call.
- Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance counselling programme
- Competitive pension scheme
- 33 days annual leave (incl. Public Holidays) with the option to buy or sell annual leave every year
- Access to our benefits portal - online staff discount scheme for a range of benefits for places such as Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Halfords, Nike, Apple, Nando's and loads more!
- Cycle to work scheme
- Headspace membership for yourself + 3 friends/family members - Headspace is a global leader in mindfulness and meditation
- Occupational sick pay
- Salary Finance - Our charity partner offers Salary Finance loans as a financial wellbeing benefit for our staff.
- Eligibility for Blue Light Card
- Join the Team Scheme - Refer a friend and receive £200!
- Level 1 membership to Healthcare Cash Plan for all permanent staff!
- Options to buy private healthcare, private dental insurance, and many other salary sacrifices
You’ll be joining our team, both locally and nationally and we’ll support you every step of the way.
To apply for the role, please click the button at the end of this page to apply online.
Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant safeguarding checks which will include reference and criminal background checks.
We are passionate about supporting autistic people into work, and particularly welcome applications from autistic people. We help autistic people from all backgrounds and strive to represent the same diversity in our staff and volunteers. We particularly encourage applications from people from all minority groups, who are currently under-represented in our workforce. Together, we can create a society that works for autistic people.
We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
