Practice Lead Support Worker

Role: Practice Lead

Salary: £25,350 per annum (£13 per hour)

Location: Brentry, Bristol, BS10

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Are you a compassionate social care professional?

Are you passionate about practice and experienced in providing good support?

Are now looking for the next step in your career?

United Response may have the perfect role for you if that’s the case! We are looking for an enthusiastic and reliable person to join our excellent supported living service in Brentry, Bristol as a Practice Lead Support Worker. Our amazing team here support people with behaviours that challenge the 4 gentleman all live within 1 building that has been separated into 4 separate flats to provide them all with their own space.

Find out more about us here

The job

As a Practice Lead Support Worker, you would be acting as a key link between staff and management. In addition to carrying out on-rota Support Worker duties, you would also work alongside the Service Manager to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the service. Your busy role will involve:

• Standard Support Worker duties
• Coaching and supporting to develop good support across the service
• Writing and updating support plans
• Displaying best practice and United Response’s values
• Mentoring and supporting the team
• Ensuring that the people we support is at the centre of everything that goes on

The person needed

Whilst we aren’t necessarily looking for someone with previous experience of working in a senior position, we do require that candidates have good experience of working within social care. The ideal candidate will have experience of coaching others and developing good support across the whole team. It’s important that you not only have experience but that you have the ability to pass on what you have learnt in a professional and friendly way. You should embody United Response’s aim to provide the very highest level of care to the person we support and always do so with a smile on your face.

The needs of this service do require the successful applicant to hold a full drivers licence with access to your own vehicle.

If you can marry these qualities and experiences with good organisational and time management then you have all the ingredients to make an excellent Practice Lead Support Worker!

The rewards and benefits

In return for your dedication and hard work you will receive:

• 20 days paid annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays, pro rata for part time)
• Additional annual leave after 3 and 5 years’ service
• Pension contribution
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to free occupational health, physiotherapy, counselling and advice services
• Fully paid training and access to nationally recognised qualifications
• Travel to work scheme (season ticket loan)
• 2x basic salary life assurance scheme
• Access to an online shopping platform with discounts from over 3,500 retailers

Please note that this role will involve elements of evening, weekend and bank holidays shifts in addition to sleep-in shifts.

United Response is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to the Mindful Employer values and are a Disability Confident Leader, providing support to applicants with disabilities.We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. If you are interested in applying for employment with United Response and are in need of support to navigate our website or to complete your application please send an email with your request to recruitment@unitedresponse.org.uk

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