Dig’n’grow

**Job Title: Senior Support Worker**

**Salary: £19,890 per Annum**

**Location: Witney, Oxfordshire**

**Hours: 37.5 hours per week**

**Purpose of the role**:
We are looking for an energetic Senior Support Worker to support the Team Leader in the management of staff, volunteers, and activities of the Outdoor Wellbeing Hub to ensure a high standard of service delivery.

**Key duties and responsibilities**:

- Organise the rotation of all plants and vegetables on the site and work with the Co-ordinator
- Plan and prepare sessions appropriate to the people who use our services
- Directly deliver activities at the Outdoor Wellbeing Centre
- Work with a diverse range of service users you will ensure that care plans are met
- Carry out assessments to establish suitability of the service for potential new service users
- Review support plans or personal development plans with service users to ensure that activities are person centred
- Communicate regularly with service users and their support network, as appropriate
- Contribute to service development and growth
- Contribute to evaluation of service performance
- Deputise for the Team Leader when required to ensure adequate staff, agency and volunteer service cover on a day-to-day basis
- Maintain accurate records of attendance
- Adhere to risk assessments and carry out health & safety checks to ensure that the environment and activities are safe for all individuals

**We are looking for someone who**:

- You will have a sound knowledge of care and support issues as well as a person-centred approach to care
- Able to support a team and to work as part of a team
- Able to efficiently plan and arrange services and activities with the team
- Able to communicate effectively at all levels, with excellent verbal and written skills
- Able to be proactive, take initiative and demonstrate good problem solving, decision making and negotiating skills
- Able to maintain accurate and timely records
- Keen interest in gardening and the outdoors is a must
- Experience of planning interesting outdoor/gardening sessions and sensory and therapeutic garden spaces is desirable
- You will have a relevant horticultural qualification for example NVQ level 2/3, diploma or equivalent

**In return you will receive a competitive salary plus**:

- **Pension scheme**:Guideposts will contribute 6% of your salary when you contribute 3%.
- **EAP from Health Assured**:

- **Career Development & Training Opportunities**:

- ** Annual leave**:23 days rising to a maximum of 28 days plus bank holidays

**About the charity**:
Guideposts exists to provide services to meet individual needs so that each person has the opportunity to fulfil their aspirations and maximise their potential. We seek to achieve excellence in our work and lead the way in researching, delivering and disseminating good practice.

Our services offer a range of social and skill-based activities for adults with learning disabilities, mobility impairments and other conditions. Alongside cooking, fitness, craft and music, gardening we also go on trips in the local area.

Please refer to the job description for more information. You can find it here