Senior Support Worker
Location: Basingstoke
£26,547 Per Annum + Additional Enhancements for Weekend / Night Shifts
(£25,547 base salary + £1000 Market Rate Allowance)
Contract Type: Permanent, Full time
Closing Date: First suitable candidates will be appointed
YOU is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives.
Essential Requirements
The appointed support worker will:

• Experience in supporting adults with multiple, and complex, support needs.
• Have excellent communication skills: verbal, non verbal, and written.
• Experience in shift leading within a Health and Social Care setting
• Some knowledge of CQC requirements, Safeguarding, best practice around person centred planning and ability to work to, and monitor, quality standards
• Can work flexibly to meet the needs of the people we work with which could include evenings, weekends, and sleep ins.

The Role:
We have exciting and rewarding opportunities to work alongside people with profound and multiple learning disabilities in Basingstoke. The role of a Senior Support Worker is to effectively support the Manger and team to provide excellent, flexible support in line with YOU’s values at all times.
You will be responsible for working alongside the manager to work with staff in ensuring all support and record keeping reaches the required standards for Care Quality Commission and Hampshire County Council.
The role will also involve overseeing and supervising staff as well as liaising with external agencies and covering management tasks when the team manager is on leave. The role will be a combination of off rota and providing hands on support.
About You:
As a successful Senior Support Worker you will be person centred at all times and ensure empowerment is at the heart of everything you do, acting with integrity, and treating people with dignity and respect. You will strive for excellence by being a reflective practitioner, with self-awareness and a willingness to challenge your skills and knowledge so that you lead in best practice, coaching others to do the same.
You will be enthusiastic, can do and always think how you can achieve the things that are asked of you, whilst also being able to remain calm when dealing with emergencies. Our Senior staff also need to be flexible and creative in their work and help others to be so too.
YOU has a strong value base, striving to be person-centred, innovative, trustworthy, can-do and excellent at all times, so it is important that you are as passionate about these principles as we are.
Our Benefits
If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

• Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing.
• Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.
• Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.
• Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave.
• Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes.
• Real opportunities to develop in your profession.
• Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day!
• Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites, as well as discounted bus travel on the First bus network.
• A company that is committed to its employees, valuing their knowledge, creativity and flexibility.
• The chance to work with amazing people.

If this sounds like your ideal role we’re keen to hear from you as soon as possible, so don’t delay, Apply today! We will talk to you about the service and ask you a few key questions to help assess your suitability for the role. If you are successfully screened you will then be invited for an assessment and interview
We are also recruiting to our bank of Sessional Support Workers called Premier Crew who are skilled and passionate about working with vulnerable people and accept shifts on a flexible, as needed basis to help us cover gaps in rotas. If this is something that interests you, please email recruitment@theyoutrust.org.uk for more details.
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Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £26,547.00 per year
Experience:

• working with Adults with multiple and profound disabilities.: 1 year (required)
• shift leading and supporting a staff team: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person