Overview
Contract Type: Full time – 37.5 hours per week (24/7 Service – Shift Pattern, Early, Late and Nights.)
Salary: £24,465 – £26,598 Including Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
This is an exciting developmental oppurtunity from a Band 2 Support Worker to a Band 3 Senior Support Worker.
You will be part of a team supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, complex health needs in the services they access and their wider community.
The service comprises of four individual flats to empower the people we support to live independently and enjoy a variety of activities, and also ensuring their physical and mental well-being.
If you are a caring and compassionate person and like the idea of advocating for those who may not be able to advocate for themselves, this job will give you great satisfaction in knowing that you are part of a team who enjoy working with others and who are caring, enthusiastic and keen to develop their skills and knowledge.
Main duties of the job
Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job
Person specification
Training
Essential criteria
- Relevant qualifications and grades
Desirable criteria
- Relevant training
- Experience in a caring role voluntary or paid
Training
Essential criteria
- Expectation that the candidate will undertake training to develop
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
