Night Support Worker

*** Night support worker ***

You will play an important role in our young people’s lives, preparing them for adult life and facilitating their transition into further education, training, or employment.

 The key to this role will be your ability to participate and to motivate whilst ensuring our students develop their own independent living skills.

• Working Full-Time, Permanent and Term Time only
• Dorset
• Hours 7.45 pm – 8.45 am
• An Immediate Start!

PAYIING  an Hourly Rate of £11.72 - £12.78 per hour + £25 per night shift covered

AND

Annual Salary: £22,904.54 - £24,976.11 pro rata annual salary (FTE = £26,663.00 - £29,074.50) 

PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE A CLEAN DRIVING LICENCE!

You will be:

• Supporting students with their evening routine.
• You will mentor and support our young people in their evening activities, sports, or hobbies both on and off-site and ensure they settle for the night. This will be with the use of verbal and visual prompting dependent on the needs of the young person. 
• You’ll also provide a key liaison point for parents and carers and ensure all health/medical needs are looked after throughout the night. You will be the listening ear and emotional support for young people to talk to after a busy day.

Skills and Qualifications:

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate

• Willingness to participate, be positive and creative in meeting our young person’s needs
• Able to support and develop independence skills such as budgeting, cooking, and housekeeping as well as accessing the wider community
• Ability to prompt/encourage positively whilst providing social/emotional behavioural support
• Ability to show a strong understanding of what “good care” looks like and how to put the young person’s needs first, whilst empowering them to be independent
• Due to our rural location access to transport and a drivers licence is essential
• Given the age of our students all applicants must be 21 and over

Benefits and Additional Information

• Full training with the opportunity to study the Level 3 diploma in Health and Social Care (funded by us!) and CPD pathway for progressing
• The little perks of appreciation, chocolates, food, tea & coffee pods, Christmas hampers etc
• Well-being checks with our Mental first aiders & Well being Champions
• Full management support
• Life assurance
• Pension
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more
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 Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the company is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) to assess their suitability to work with children.

If you are interested in this role, please call Martin or Pri on (phone number removed) or email your CV to (url removed) or (url removed) to update us with your current availability.

We anticipate this will be a popular position, so please do not hesitate to register your interest!