Positive Behaviour Support Worker

Job Description - Positive Behaviour Support Worker (25573)

Job Title: Positive Behaviour Support Worker

Location: Swindon

Pay: £13.21 per hour (£25,838 per annum) [pro rata] and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Join us in this great and rewarding job, as our Support Worker (known Internally as Positive Behavioural Support Worker). You’ll join our team to provide person-centred and strengths-based support to our customer (let's call them S) and help them reach their full potential.

S has complex needs including a moderate learning disability and autism. S is an intelligent, independent, chatty, super direct young lady who is really into gaming, TV, the outdoors and animals. Her plushies are super important to her and she loves spending time with her family.

S has some sensory processing difficulties, and can react strongly to touch, and strongly smelling toiletries, both in positive and negative ways. When stressed or anxious, S may challenge us, and we'll make sure you are trained to a high standard to manage on those occasions should they occur.

Typical day as our Support Worker

• Helping S overcome barriers and help them lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach their true potential.
• Recognising their strengths and abilities and help them take the small steps at their pace, never losing sight of their dreams and aspirations!
• Supporting S using Positive Behavioural Support model to promote independence and social inclusion through person-centred support.
• Monitoring our customers’ mental and physical health to identify any signs of deterioration and take positive risk management to their health and wellbeing.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers' lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Places to Work in the UK!

You have

• Experience in a Complex Care setting, with a Level 2 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or are prepared to work towards it.
• Worked as a Support Worker, supporting people with complex needs, or behaviours of distress.
• A patient and calm approach, able to adapt your style to S's needs, as well as to the specific occasion and circumstances, even when they challenge us.
• Experience of positive risk management, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.
• Ideally got Makaton, but that’s not a deal breaker!

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

You’ll join Deb, our Registered Manager who’s been with Home Group for over 8 years now and has a clinical background as a nurse. She’s a people-person caring for customers and colleagues alike. Deb also loves a house full of family at home and loves to cook for them all although they may not all appreciate her cooking! She’s also into football, theater and travelling when she gets the chance.

Job details

• Working on a rota basis between the hours of 7am and 10pm. You'll work long days of 15-hour shifts but work fewer days each week.
• Able to use technology to create and update support plans, communicate with colleagues and complete online learning.
• We’ll make sure you have a fantastic induction with ongoing learning and support.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check to do this job, which we pay for.

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!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank holidays and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll 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 you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.

Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk