Night Support Worker

Job title: Support Worker (Waking Night)
Location: Kings Heath
Salary: £11.55 per hour
Role: Permanent 20 hours per week
Shifts: 9:45pm-7:45am, you must be flexible to work any 2 nights out of the week including weekends

You must have relevant experience for this position, especially with challenging behaviour and Autism.

PLEASE NOTE – NOT OPEN TO OVERSEAS APPLICANTS OR CHANGE OF VISAS APPLICANTS
We are an award-winning organisation, and we are also an Investors in People accredited organisation, so you can be sure we will offer support and guidance during your career with us. You must be 18 years old and above to apply for the role.
If you have previous experience as a support worker, care assistant, domiciliary/home care, or residential homes then this would be ideal for you. If not, don’t worry if you have no experience as this isn’t necessary and full training will be provided. We are just looking for caring and compassionate people who want to make a difference to people’s lives.
Support Worker Benefits

• Excellent initial training programme, a comprehensive 12-week induction programme followed by an ongoing training & development pathway.
• Career Progression Opportunities – most of our managers started off as support workers!
• Company Pension Scheme & 28-day holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Recommend a friend – £250 incentive.
• Employee Assistance Programme focussed on your well-being.

About the service
We currently have 6 adult service users residing at swan court 5 males and 1 female, swan is a residential service focusing on Learning disability, Autism and challenging behaviour, service users are nonverbal and require full support with day to day living skills and promoting independence, we all here work as team to meet the needs of each individual based on a person centred approach.
Support Worker duties:

• Supporting residents to develop independence and life skills
• Assisting people to achieve daily goals & daily activities such as arts, crafts, hobbies
• Assisting with the development of person centred plans for our residents
• This includes employment, education and other opportunities
• Maintaining records and drawing up risk assessments 
• Providing personal care where needed always working towards more independence 
• Supporting people in undertaking daily activities or development

About Us
At Precious Homes, we work by empowering individuals with Learning Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Conditions, and other complex needs, to live as independently as possible, to become integral members of the community and to achieve their goals and aspirations through individual care pathways. As a social care provider we also empower our staff family to make important decisions in the workplace and our aim is to be as person centred with our staff as we are with our service users.