- Support Workers
Night Support Worker – Heatherwood
Location
HOURS
Are you caring, energetic, enthusiastic who enjoys working as part of a team? Are you looking for a job that makes a difference? A job you can feel proud of? Then a role as a Support Worker could be just right for you.
You will be part of a friendly team, assigned specifically to the Heatherwood court service., which aims to improve the lives, self-esteem, and independence of all the service users in their care.
To be considered for this role, experience and knowledge of working in a similar role/mental health act in the care sector would be desirable but is not essential, as we are also looking for people with varied life experience and an empathy for others.
To join our team you must:
- demonstrate enthusiasm and a desire to enrich our service users’ lives
- have a calm, caring approach and be a good listener
- have a desire to learn
- be a team player
- be able to accept that there will be some difficult days but that there will more good days when the sense of achievement you will feel will more than balance this out
- be able to undertake an enhanced DBS check
What to expect from Iris Care Group?
- Competitive Salary
- Fully paid Comprehensive training programme
- Paid DBS
- Employee wellbeing assistance programme – with free counselling sessions included for yourself and immediate family members
- Continued professional development with succession.
- Up to 33 days annual leave with long service dependent on role
- Paid for Blue light card
- Supportive and welcoming team
- “Recognise Me”, our new benefits, wellbeing and recognition platform
- Death in service
It’s really nice to build a relationship with the service users and build trust with each other. It’s a two-way thing and its lovely when you get to that point. They’re all incredible and I love seeing them reaching goals, trying new things and having their independence, as well as receiving support.