Support Worker - Lane End Road (£10,344pa)
Make a Real Difference Every Day - Join Our Team at Lane End Road!
We’re looking for acompassionate and enthusiastic Support Worker to join our friendly team at Lane End Road, a supported living service in High Wycombe. This is a part time role (15 hours per week), where you will be helping individuals with enduring mental health needs live independently in their own purpose-built accommodation.
As part of a supportive team, you will:
- Provide tailored support to individuals in their own homes
- Provide personal care with sensitivity and respect
- Encourage life skills such as budgeting, shopping, cooking, and cleaning
- Draft personalised support plans and risk assessments
- Empower people to achieve their goals and live fulfilling lives
About You
We’re looking for people who are:
- Caring, reliable, and proactive, with a genuine desire to help others
- Able to communicate effectively and adapt to different needs
- Comfortable working shifts, including weekends and bank holidays
- Committed to equality, diversity, and person-centred support
- Experienced in a similar role
Additionally, you will also be able to:
- Work shifts as part of a rota system which will include weekend and bank holiday working
- Perform at least one sleep in per week as part of your shift (allowance of £52.78 paid)
- Work as part of a team to deliver an excellent service to the people we support
- Be flexible in your approach to work and demonstrate resilience in a challenging, but rewarding environment
- Have a commitment to equality and diversity and take a positive approach to supporting people with mental disabilities
It is essential that you are happy to do sleep-ins (minimum one per week).
Hightown Benefits:
- Generous annual leave allowance of 33 days per year (pro rata), including statutory bank holidays, rising to 35 days with service
- £10,344pa for a 15-hour contract
- We make sleep in payments of at least £52.78 (in addition to your basic pay)
- Workplace pension scheme and life assurance of three times your annual salary
- Fully paid DBS
- Annual bonus based on satisfactory performance
- Monthly attendance bonus and annual salary and cost of living review
- Ongoing professional development and training to help you deliver outstanding support
- Employee assistance helpline
Please note that we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on an ongoing basis and therefore we may close the vacancy early. Interested applicants are therefore encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure they are considered
Appointment to this position will be subject to satisfactory right to work, enhanced DBS, reference and medical checks.
We are an Equal Opportunities & Disability Confident Employer.