Support Worker

Permanent full (37.5 hpw)

Pay £10.90 per hour (£21,314 per annum, increasing to £23,464 in April 2024) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customers life for the better? As our Support Worker, youll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have complex support needs to develop their skills to live more independently in the community. Youll be working in our properties in Gloucester, which have on-site parking and are close to the shops.

Youll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!

Typical day as our Support Worker

Assisting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans. 

Youll be supporting our young customers, many who are care leavers, and may have mental health issues. 

Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto their forever home when theyre ready. 

Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews. 

Cuppas, chats and catch ups. Theres no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to work together with colleagues too.      

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? Youll do that here, working for one of the Top Ten Great Places to Work in the UK!

You bring

Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail   

Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children  

The ability to work€¯on your own initiative, remain€¯calm under pressure and have€¯a resilient approach 

Recognise every customer is different and youre able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs€¯  

Ideally to get from A to B, youll have a vehicle insured for business purposes. But its not a deal breaker if not, weve had colleagues who cycle, use an electric scooter or the bus!

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to€¯external€¯candidates for this role.€¯ This remains under regular review.

Our team

Youll join Michelle, our service manager, whos quite new to Home Group but has been in the sector for over 30 years so she knows a thing or two about housing and working with people! Michelle used to be a DJ, across Spain and the UK so she knows her house music too! She also loves her cats and has two called Baby and Cleo. Youll also join our Young Peoples ABS team, were super passionate about what we do and are friendly supportive bunch!

Job details

Youll join the team on a rota doing early and late shifts between 7.45am to 8.15pm including some weekends too. We work as a team to be flexible though! 

Youll manage your working day, balancing your quiet time and working with customers.

Youre able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues. 

Youll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong 

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

Whats in it for you?

25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too! 

Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. Well cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more. 

Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car?  Save money with us.  

We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when youre ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us! 

Colleagues really matters to us, thats why were the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.  

Learn more about our€¯benefits on our website.

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our€¯Support Worker Job Description, find out about€¯us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so dont delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if theres anything we can do, to help you shine in our process at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk