Support Worker (Nightingale Close)

Contract Type: Permanent Full Time & Part Time ( up to 37 hours per week)
Persona: Site Based
Location: Witham, Essex
Salary: £23,054 per annum or £11.95 per hour

Are you passionate about helping people and looking for a career where you can make a real difference?

If you are caring, share our values and enjoy helping others, apply now to join our Nightingale Close team.

Nightingale Close is a registered care home providing 24-hour support for adults with learning disabilities and complex needs.

No previous experience is required. We will support you with a comprehensive induction and provide ongoing training and development.

We work within a framework of person-centred care, engaging individuals in active support and focussing on community participation. The main duties for this post will be to provide support to residents, promoting daily independence and wellbeing, as well as offering personal care and support with daily living tasks. You will be required to follow support plans and risk assessments and adhere to safeguarding principles.

As a requirement of the role you will be working on a rota basis including, weekends, public holidays and occasional nights.

As the ideal candidate you will be someone who shares our values:

People - We care about the happiness and wellbeing of our customers and employees

Passion - We approach everything with energy, determination and enthusiasm.

Inclusion - We draw strength from our differences and work collaboratively.

Responsibility - We own problems and deliver effective, lasting solutions.

Impact - We measure what we do by the difference we make.

Why work for L&Q Living?

• We offer excellent benefits including 21 days annual leave (pro rata), pension scheme and non-contributory life assurance, season ticket loan, employee discount scheme and a health and wellbeing program.
• Free training up to diploma level 5
• You will have access to our spot bonus scheme for demonstrating how you embed our values. If you go way and beyond, we will reward you with a spot bonus of up to £1000.
• You will also be joining an organisation where 78% of our staff told us it’s a great place to work and 92% said their manager treats them with respect (GPTW survey 2022)
• The opportunity to grow your career with us or other departments within our business.

If you are interested in this role and share our values, then apply without delay by clicking on the apply button below or sending your CV to recruitment@lq-living.co.uk

For this post the successful candidate will need to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service certificate (DBS) to enable them to work within the team. Further information about the Disclosure scheme can be found at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/dbs/

At the foundation of everything that we do are our corporate values and associated behaviours. Our organisational behavioural framework outlines the core expectations of all employees, which should be demonstrated at all times when representing L&Q. More information about L&Q’s values can be found on our website and a copy of our behavioural framework can be provided on request.

We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace.

We expect all of our employees to support our environmental policy and social responsibility work. We are an employer committed to environmental and social responsibility.