Job responsibilities
Are you an experienced Senior Support Worker looking to elevate your career, where you can make a real difference and change lives for the better? If so, join Bradfield House in Worthing, and provide care for people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs. You will be key in supporting individuals to lead a full and valued life. It’s a career that you can take pride in.
At Bradfield House you will have the chance to develop your skills and career. With a huge range of courses on offer, if you have the aspiration, capability and dedication, Elysium Healthcare can give you the support and opportunities to help you achieve your career goals.
What you will be doing:
You will join an inclusive, supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with Mental Health conditions. You will have the opportunity to use your knowledge and skills to help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society.
As a Senior Support Worker some of your key responsibilities will include organising and overseeing the smooth running of a shift, ensuring the wellbeing of all service users, responding to any challenges or concerns and supervising support staff. You will organise activities, administer medication, communicate with families and professionals, oversee daily reports, budgets, complete financial audits and complete H&S checks.
It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience and vigilance are important. It is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of you; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week.
No two days are the same in this role, offering plenty of engagement and motivation. While there's a degree of routine, you can expect a diverse work environment. Our rota includes days, nights, and weekend shifts to ensure a well-balanced team effort.
As a Senior Support Worker you will have:
- Experience as Senior Support Worker or extensive care experience in Mental Health and hold the NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care
- Leadership skills and experience
- Strong empathy and a caring and compassionate nature
- Willingness to support residents with personal hygiene
- Excellent people and communication skills, and a good sense of humour
- Deal with challenging behaviours
- Have a positive and professional approach
- Be reliable, flexible, hard-working and honest
- Be local or within commutable distance
You must live in the UK and have the Right to Work in the UK full time.
20-hour Student and Skilled Worker Visa's cannot be accepted.
Where you will be working:
Location:
119-121 Heene Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 4NY
Bradfield House is part of our Learning Disability and Autism division and provides a specialist residential service for men and women with a range of learning disabilities, including autism and sensory and communication impairments.
This specialist service is designed for those individuals with a learning disability who require a high level of support to live within a community setting and will continue to require this longer term. Clients may be transitioning from children’s residential services, education, moving out of the family home. We are also experienced in successfully managing clients moving from services where their placements may have broken down or where their needs are no longer being met.
The aim of the service is to encourage individuals to lead a full and valued life, enabling them to live more independently through a programme of active community engagement, developing meaningful social networks and developing robust coping strategies.
The home has two lounges, and ten spacious bedrooms with full en-suite facilities. The home also has two fully enclosed gardens. Bradfield House is situated in the conservation area of Worthing, West Sussex, just a short walk to the sea front, and ¼ mile to West Worthing main line train station.
This seaside town with a pier and promenade enjoys an excellent range of facilities and amenities. Worthing has direct train access to Brighton and London and good road links around the area.
What you will get:
- £12.85 hourly pay rate
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave Pro Rata (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
- 24 hour GP Service to ensure you are the best you can be
- Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
- Pension contribution to secure your future.
- Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
- Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
