Support Worker Stockton Heath

Job role: Support Worker

Location: Westleigh, Walton Road, Stockton Heath, Warrington,

Hours: 32 hours per week, based on a rotating 4 weekly rota, with 6 hour and 12 hour shifts

Salary: £11.01 per hour

Service Brief:

Westleigh House is located within walking distance to Stockton Heath village centre and is home to twenty people with long term mental health support needs. For many this can be their home for a number of years, although for others it acts as a very successful transitional stage towards having their own home, either on their own or with others. It can also be used as a location for short breaks away from their permanent home. Whilst independence is encouraged, if required our Mental Health Support Workers can support residents to enjoy activities that are important to them such as meeting and visiting family & friends, going to the cinema, shopping or engaging in work or learning activities.

WCL Support Worker Brief:

Provide professional, high quality support to people within their own home and other environments in a way which maximises their choice and independence; allowing them to have a high quality of life and make their own decisions while supporting and living out our Values within your role.

You will be required to deliver person centred support to meet the care needs, which includes but is not limited to personal, practical, social and domestic support, which is agreed within an individual care plan while exemplifying best practice at all times. Support should promote the individual’s health and well-being and support them to be active members within their living environment and their local community.

The work will involve developing professional working relationships with families, colleagues, from WCL and other agencies. You will be responsible for completing relevant documentation for the people being supported compliance with guidance, statutory regulation and WCL policies and procedures.

To ensure high quality service all our support workers must have or be committed to working toward a level 2 qualification in Health and Social Care, we will invest in you and all we ask in return is your commitment to this for your own development and the development of our services.

You will work as part of a team to ensure that the needs of the individuals we support are met through the course of the night shift. Whilst experience is preferred, whether through Support Work, Care Assistant roles or through supporting friends or family members, it isn't essential as full training and support will be given.

Job Description can be found here - https://bit.ly/WCLSWSpec

Employee Benefits

As a charity, we do what we can to show our teams that we value them and the life-changing work they do, so we offer the following:

• Welcome bonus - you'll receive £500 as a warm welcome to the team
• Access to training and development, both in house and accredited courses, where we will pay for your qualification and on completion of level 2 or above we will reward you with £150 bonus (as well as £50 for passing care certificate)
• Access to wecare; offering health and wellbeing support including 24/7 access to GP
• Blue Light Card – we’ll cover the cost of your card
• Access to discount schemes; including discounted childcare, shopping and access to a range of online training courses
• Night Enhancement - all hours worked between 8pm and 8am will carry an additional £1 per hour enhancement. This will be applied whether it is regular contracted hours, bank hours or overtime.
• Free Meals - available to all staff who are working 12-hour shifts, to help you keep your energy levels up and provide a hot or cold meal should you want it.
• Refer a Friend £200 - if you refer a friend to come and work for WCL and they are successful, you will receive a £200 bonus.
• Christmas Enhancement (Double Time) - allocated Christmas hours worked will be rewarded with double-time pay.
• Ongoing investment in new technology - including care plan and rota apps, with full training provided!
• Shifts available across a range of services; made available through our online rota system. This could be same day shifts or in the future. Book shifts that fit with your availability, days, nights, weekdays, weeknights, weekends. A range of shifts available, from 3 hour shifts up to 12 hours and sleep in shifts

Who we’re looking for:

People who share and support our vision and values:

• Supporting rights, needs, choices & dreams.
• Seeing the possibility to make a difference in all that we do.
• Being financially responsible and economically sustainable.
• Embracing new technology and innovation.
• Appreciating every colleague's contribution.

Interested? Click apply and one of our friendly team will come back to you to discuss the next steps