Overnight Support Worker / Premises Caretaker

As an overnight on-site Support Worker, you'll help to provide a secure, happy and supportive environment within Cranford Avenue in Weymouth. You'll live on site as a sleep in Support Worker, where 8 of our service users reside, ensuring an environment that is clean, tidy, warm and inviting. As a Night Support Worker, you will work from 10pm to 8.30am 5 nights per week, Safeguarding is everybody's business. The welfare and safeguarding of our service users is paramount as is your role and your level of responsibility is within the organisation. You'll provide safe, reliable, compassionate support that is centred on the individual needs and wishes of each service user. This involves respecting each Service Users choices and always promoting their dignity. You'll respond at Night if woken by Service Users, using their telephone emergency system and provide support and reassurance when required.

• Good communication skills
• Basic literacy and numeracy skills
• To be compassionate and patient
• Experience in a caring industry
• Confident and comfortable lone working
• To pass our DBS check or be on the DBS update service
• Verify your right to work in the UK.
• Completed your Care Certificate or hold an NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification.
Even better if you have previous experience of a working for a personalised care services for adults of with physical, learning, and mental disabilities and providing personal care.

Specialising in housing and support services for the elderly, adults with learning disabilities and other vulnerable people, we seek to provide our residents with more than just a home. Our customers are our reason for being so we try to involve customers in everything we do. We have provided care and support services since 1960 and currently serve a range of customers with different needs., EBHT as part of the Aster Group is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it's subsidiary brands. We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:
• A focus on colleague wellbeing - workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues' careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives, and monthly and annual awards
  
  This is a sleep in role where you will be sleeping in your own flat which is attached to Cranford Avenue, providing on call service to 8 residents in Cranford Ave for 5 nights a week for £30.00 per night, £7,821 per year.
We also have opportunities for you to work for us as a Care and Support worker in the day on top of this role.