Support Workers

**Support Workers
- Spalding (£11.17 - £15 per hour) 3 or 4 days a week**

We are currently looking to recruit **Support Workers** to join our Spalding home on a permanent basis working **40 hours per week**. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who would like to start a new structured career path working within a challenging yet exciting, fast paced position, delivering support to young people, in their own home, who are experiencing social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.

**About Heartwood**
With more than a decade’s service in the field of social care, Heartwood Care Group have provided an experienced support for children and young people in their local communities delivering a tailored approach to each child and a flexible care for those with emotional and/or behavioural difficulties who are emotionally vulnerable and occasionally challenging.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Ensure that the rights of the young people are upheld and promoted at all times in accordance with the principles of choice, respect, dignity and privacy.
- Ensure that all issues relating to the safeguarding of vulnerable children and/or adults are reported according to policies and procedures and in accordance with the safeguarding policy.
- Ensure that if there are significant changes to individual service users’ needs these are raised with the Service Manager.
- Promote young people’s involvement in all areas including service delivery, quality assurance and organisational development.
- Communicate effectively (written and verbal) with both internal colleagues and external bodies alike.
- Able to demonstrate an understanding of social emotional and behavioural difficulties and how these may impact the lives of the young people that we support.
- Able to inspire and encourage young people to engage in all aspects of daily living.
- An empowering, approachable and resilient worker.
- Confident, influential and inspiring.

**What we offer**
- **Employee Development scheme**
- **Nest Pension Scheme**
- **Maternity and Sick pay**
- **Refer a friend scheme**

**Salary**:

- **From £11.17 per hour Day Shift**
- **£15.00 per hour Night Shift**

**, Permanent**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £11.17-£15.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Referral programme

Flexible Language Requirement:

- English not required

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Work Location: In person