Support Worker

Are you a current or aspiring Support Worker looking for an exciting new role within an organisation committed to improving lives? Do you enjoy supporting others? If so, our Support Worker role could be the perfect job for you

Longhurst Group is a leading housing Group across the Midlands & East of England, committed to enhancing communities and improving the lives of both our colleagues and customers. With a mission to provide quality, safe, affordable housing that build great foundations for our customers, our Residential Care team are critical to ensuring our customers are living as independently as possible, ultimately ensuring wellbeing and care is at the highest level.

As a Support Worker at Longhurst Group, you will be able to help our customers to achieve their outcomes, maintain their independent living, support them with medication, personal care and integration knowing that the work you do each day will really help to improve their lives in a holistic and empowering way. You will work with both male and female customers with support needs across a flexible 7-day rota, with shifts over a 24-hour period which will include sleep-in shifts as part of the rota. Further key responsibilities are listed below:

- Enable people to maximise their independence within their homes and the local community.
- Promote and enable individual choices in the support provided.
- Maintain and respect all peoples’ choices, privacy, confidentiality, dignity, and independence, treating them as individuals.
- Ensure that people are fully involved in identifying their own needs and planning their own support.
- Lone-working during sleep-in/night shifts between 11pm - 7am.

Our Support Worker role is based full-time at our residential care home in Romsey Avenue, Nuneaton, contracted to 27.5 hours per week.

**What you receive from us**:

- Up to 26 days annual leave (pro rata based on contracted hours)
- Life Cover of three times your annual salary (as part of pension scheme membership)
- Membership of our Health Care Cash Plan including Employee Assistance programme and DoctorLine
- Access to a range of discounts, including Blue Light and B&Q Tradepoint Cards
- Free access to financial education service, supporting with personalised financial information on a range of topics such as mortgages, retirement planning, pensions, saving and investments, insurance and will writing
- Free Eye Tests
- Free flu vaccinations
- Investment in your personal development through our extensive learning and development opportunities
- Professional subscription for membership fees relating to your role, paid for by us
- Family friendly, carers leave plus other paid leave
- Long Service Awards
- Carers Networking Group and resources to support Unpaid Carers

**How to apply**

Please click “apply” today to upload your CV detailing your full employment history from age of first employment i.e., date of leaving school. In line with “CQC safer recruitment”, please include details of any gaps in your employment on your CV. This could include carer duties, travel, seeking work, education, employment, training, or volunteering.

We recognise, welcome and support that everyone’s employment history is unique and can be different, however we are unable to make any conditional offers without a full employment history.

In the event of high applicant volumes we reserve the right to close this advert and CV submission window early.

**Vetting Requirements**

**Equal Opportunities**

As an equal opportunities’ employer, Longhurst Group is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We are one of the leading housing groups in the Midlands and East of England, providing more than 23,000 homes and a wide range of care and support services.

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