Support Workers

Support Workers

Closing Date:
Wednesday 30th April 2025

**Various hours - some daytime, evening and sleep-ins are required as this is a 24 hour service. You will also be required to work some weekends and bank holidays.**

**£12.85 per hour rising to £13.05 per hour on successful completion of training and probation period.**

We have some exciting opportunities available across our Supported Living Service in Bury.

About you

You don’t need to have previous experience of working in social care, what’s important is that you are caring, a good communicator, patient, creative, able to work on your own initiative, show empathy and that you can work as part of a team. Most of all we are looking for someone who shares our values. You will want to take time to get to know the people you support so that you can build a relationship of trust with them.

Flexibility is important as you will work on a rota basis. The rotas include a mix of shifts, including full days, short early mornings, evenings, weekends, bank holidays and sleep-ins.

No one will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we're saying and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you

About the role

Being a support worker can be a very rewarding job. Even though the role can often be challenging, making a positive difference to someone’s life and enabling them to become more independent brings feelings of accomplishment and satisfaction. It’s a great career choice for those who enjoy a varied job role and lots of interaction with others.

You will support people with a variety of activities such as managing their finances, cooking, cleaning and shopping. In your role, you will follow comprehensive planning and risk assessments, to ensure that everyone you support achieves positive outcomes.

Some of the people we support need support with personal care such as bathing, dressing and undressing, managing medication, catheter care and support with their mobility. We also support people with learning disabilities, mental health conditions, dementia and long-term or chronic physical conditions who might communicate physically to get their needs met.

There’s lots of fun to be had too, as we actively encourage people to engage in a variety of activities such as going on long walks, joining in with virtual activity sessions, baking and much more. We also like to support people to be active members of their local community, so you may be supporting people to go to the cinema, swim, eat out, go shopping, volunteer or go to college or work.

Further information about the role can be found in the**job description**.

In return for your contribution we will support you throughout your career
- We provide a wide range of **employee benefits**, career development and lifestyle support services to ensure that you too feel supported, fulfilled and valued from day one of your employment with us.

Persona is committed to being an inclusive employer and recognises the value of having a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

Where possible, we will support employees to work flexibly or with adjustments, so that they can perform to their best ability. We are committed to providing a working environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual skills and life experiences are valued.

Please note

Satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service is required prior to appointment.

If this sounds like the role for you:
**Our recruitment event for these posts will be held on 7th May 2025.**

**Please note we are not currently in a position to offer sponsorship to workers from outside of the UK.