Supported Living Worker

Supported Living Worker - CQC Community Based

Gainford House, Hartlepool

Permanent, Part Time (30 hpw)

Salary £21,314 pa [pro rata], plus Brilliant Benefits and health cash plan

**Empowering customers to live rewarding and happy lives. That’s when it hits home.**

We have a fantastic job opportunity for a brilliant Supported Living Worker like you to join our fab and supportive team. Our Good Rated CQC registered service provides support to our brilliant customers who have learning disabilities and or autism and mental health needs within a community support setting.

Our Customers live in their own self-contained properties within the Hartlepool area. You’ll support them to live their day to day lives as independently as possible. The team will tell you that no two days are ever the same because everything we do is “person centred” around our customers.

You might help with personal care (like bathing and issuing medication) in the morning and supporting them to attend college in the afternoon. We even help customers to go on holiday Like our team, we’re sure you’ll find the job ever so rewarding.

We help our customer’s to achieve their potential, long term goals and to live their best life. You’ll play your part by assisting in the delivery of tasks that are based on our customers personal support plans. You’ll work with our Senior Support Workers and external agencies to support our customers. You can see what it’s like to work in a service like this in this great video.

**About you**

As our Supported Living Worker, you’re passionate and motivated. To you providing care and support is more than just a job, you make every customer feel valued and respected. You’re compassionate, and use your unique empathy and creativity skills to help our customers reach their full potential. Treating your customers with integrity, you ensure that they maintain their dignity at all times.

To make sure our customers are well supported, it’s important that you’ve had a job in a care or supported living environment before. You have a great understanding of professional boundaries, responsibility for safeguarding, risk assessment, confidentiality and have experience in case management. Don’t worry, we won’t drop you in the deep end, we’ll help to you understand how things work at Home Group

As this is a community based job, you need to be able to drive, as well as having access to a vehicle insured for business purposes. Don’t worry, we’ll pay you expenses to cover this use
- When you join as a Supported Living Worker, you’ll need to have a valid Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service. The great news is that we will pay for that to be done if you don’t have a transferrable one._

**Working hours**

You’ll work on a rota basis between the hours of 7.30am and 10.20pm and take your turn working days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays. We need you to be flexible to meet the needs of our customers, but we aim to give you the time you need to spend time doing the things that matter to you

**About our team**

While you’ll work independently with your customers in a community based setting, you won’t really be alone, with colleagues as fab and team spirited as ours

Our team describe themselves as really friendly and approachable. In fact when new members have joined us in the past, it’s been said that they felt welcomed by colleagues and our customers from day one

We’re also super passionate about supporting customers and celebrating their achievements. To us we’re not just a team we’re a ‘work family’. Our Registered Manager is Lesley who loves nothing better than dancing along to her favourite live band and our Client Services Manager is Vikki who loves to sing and dance around the service although we all cover our ears There are 17 of us in the team and we don’t just love to support our customers, we’re there for each other too

**Be yourself at Home**

Home Group is committed to tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but for our colleagues too We’re super proud of our internal Diversity Networks and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) which support colleagues from different backgrounds to be their true selves. We recognise and celebrate our differences, together we make Home Group a great place to work

**More about this job**

If you’re not reading this advert on our job pages, press the **APPLY NOW** button to access lots of useful stuff You can download the supported living worker job description, and find out more about Home Group. We’ve also got some short films that show you what it’s like to work here, and we know you’ll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards

**Work Locations***: Hartlepool (Gainford House) Gainford House Gainford Street Hartlepool TS26 9DX

**Closing Date***: 27.Feb.23, 5:59:00 PM