Senior Support Worker

We are recruiting Senior Support workers for various locations

**Details**:

- Pay starts from: £11.60 p/ hr;
- Mileage: 0.35p p/ mile;
- Sleep In: £35 p/ sleep in;
- Reference ID: Senior Support Worker;
- Job Types: Full-time, Contract, Permanent;
- Annual salary starts from: £28782 (with sleep-in allowance)

FEVACA is recruiting for a Senior Support Worker that can join our Quality, Assurance, and Compliance team.

**Overview of the job**:
As a Senior Support worker, you are a flexible peripatetic worker you will be employed to work across all FEVACA services. You will be key in supporting the service and teams with inductions, training, and completing auditing and action plans to develop the service or cover for existing staff annual leave or last-minute sickness.

As a Senior Support Worker will be working as part of a reactive and preventative team, responsible for assessing, targeting, and responding to the practice across the FEVACA services.

Senior Support Worker will have a flexible rota that is devised every two weeks with key points of intervention and support when working in FEVACA services; you will be a key point in delivering and up the culture to FEVACA standards during moments of crisis.

The Senior Support Worker's main role is to support service development and complete internal audits and assessments to highlight where improvements are needed this includes information when staff require support and draw upon action plans to work with the team to improve overall standards within the legislative framework and Fevaca policies. The role will involve a combination of problem-solving, monitoring, and advisory support to the field team; you will be bringing your experience, knowledge, and expertise to improve practice, and performance and have an active role in auditing, monitoring, and staff retention.

**Person Specification**:

- All applicants must be able to commit to 39 hours and up to 2 sleep-ins per week
- The usual shift is:

- Supported Accommodation: 9 am - 10 pm & sleep in (up to 2 sleep per week)
- Children Home: 8 am-11 pm & sleep in (up to 2 nights of sleep per week)
- Community services: hours are in line with client requirements

Senior Support Workers must be able to commit to traveling between different projects depending on the needs of the business and commit to a two-weekly rota.

**What can we offer you?**
- Free meals/refreshments whilst on shift
- Free DBS
- Pension scheme, with an employer top-up
- Perk box - offering discounts in several retail shops, cinema tickets, parking, insurance, etc
- Flexible working agreements are available
- Free parking in most of the locations when on shift
- On-call support 24/7
- Access to our employee assistance program. (free confidential advice, for work, counselling, financial well-being, childcare support, family issues, legal information, and medical information)
- 28 days of annual leave ( up to 35 days in line with years of service)
- Full and comprehensive training program
- Ability to work additional hours
- Access to additional sleep-in payments
- Access to company vehicles
- Christmas party and other fun staff social events
- Mileage and expenses paid
- Family-friendly
- Financial support to access further education relevant to the role
- Opportunities for internal progression

**Essential**:

- Positive and non Judgemental value base.
- Ability to demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice.
- Working and experience in the area relevant to children's social care.
- Good understanding of Health and Safety, Safeguarding, Human Resources, and Data protection legislative frameworks.
- Full UK driving license and access to a car (driving to various projects across counties will be a requirement).
- Be flexible and willing to work on a two weeks rota plan.
- Complete direct work and shifts including sleep in’s, weekends, and bank holidays as allocated by the QAC manager and in line with service needs - this includes responding to last-minute absences and sickness.
- Knowledge of the Children Act, Leaving Care Act, and subsequent guidance.
- Ability to oversee and contribute to the management of the households.
- Experience working with vulnerable children and adults.
- Good standard of written and verbal English, including report writing and assessment skills.
- Ensure compliance with all appropriate legislation in the field of care in which you are working.
- Ability to complete audits and monitoring of the services.
- Ability to supervise and lead other practitioners within the project.

If you are passionate about providing tailored support for individuals who require the highest standard of care and want to develop your skill set, then get in touch and call us at
**01284 764411.**
**Catherine or Caitlyn** will be happy to discuss this job opportunity further.

**About Fevaca**:
We are a company specialising in providing support to children, young people and vulnerable adults. Our t