Waking Night Support Worker

**Could you be a Sense Waking Night Support Worker?**:
Come and join our fantastic Residential Service in Deeping St James which has been was rated Good by CQC.

We are located in Deeping St James with the town of Market Deeping 5 minutes away and Peterborough City Centre 20 minutes away.

This is a permanent role working 18 hours per week. We are offering you an hourly rate of £13 per hour.

The shift patterns for this role covers 10:00pm-07:00am Monday to Sunday.

You will join a friendly, small well established and experienced team of staff at our service which supports five adults with dual sensory complex needs including physical disabilities and challenging behaviour. We promote independence and enable them to develop life skills, with on-site 24-hour support and 1 to 1 support sessions.
- To be considered for the role you will need use of your own vehicle to get to and from the service for early/late shifts due to very limited public transport.

**Benefits**:

- ** 32 days of annual leave**including Bank Holidays
- Matched pension contributions up to 5%.
- Free life assurance policy.
- Cashback and discounts on high street brands (and 10% off at Sense charity shops).
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Travel season ticket loans.
- Enhanced sick pay.
- Headspace app**:

- Free DBS check if your role needs one.
- ** A £350**refer-a-friend scheme.
- Free access to over 100 online and face-to-face training courses, including the care certificate.
- Ongoing development opportunities

**We’re looking for enthusiastic applicants who are**:

- Positive, with a can-do attitude.
- Caring, patient and empathetic.
- Good communicators and listeners
- Flexible team players
- Passionate about enhancing other people’s lives.
- Willing to attend training as needed to support you in your role.

**No two days will be the same**:
Here at Sense, we support people with complex disabilities to live the life they choose. Your priority will be empowering the people you support to live an independent life.

**This role in Deeping St James might include supporting people with**:

- Everyday tasks like cooking and cleaning.
- Personal care and hygiene.
- Finances.
- Medication and wellbeing.
- Going into the community for shopping or other trips.
- Their social life and nightlife.
- Everyone we support is an individual, so their care is as unique as they are. You can see a more detailed description of duties in the job description attached at the bottom of this advert.

Please note, this role may include regular **sleep-in shifts paid at £50 a night** (This means sleeping over at the residence, with the possibility you might have to wake up to provide care in the night.)

**About Sense**:
For everyone living with complex disabilities. For everyone who is deafblind. Sense is here to help people communicate and experience the world. We believe that no one, no matter how complex their disabilities, should be isolated, left out, or unable to fulfil their potential. Sense are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.

Working at Sense can be incredibly rewarding; we offer the opportunity to work in a large, diverse and successful charity where people can develop their skills, knowledge and careers in a supportive and flexible environment. In addition, we have excellent training and development, the opportunity for you to join our Group Personal Pension scheme and a generous annual leave entitlement.

**Ready to make a difference?**:
**To apply**:
No agency submissions please: any submissions without prior authorisation from the Sense Recruitment Team will be treated as our own and as such no fee will be payable.