Senior Support Worker

We are looking for a Senior Support Worker who is passionate about delivering high quality, engaging, respectful, and dignified care and support to older people in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

Our mission is to provide a safe, homely environment in which older people can live independently, whilst receiving bespoke packages of care and support that meet their needs. You will lead a team of dedicated workers in achieving positive outcomes for tenants; this will include organising on site activities and events, helping to coordinate and deliver individual packages of care and support, whilst maintaining community links.

Your role will include:

• Provide excellent, respectful personal care to our residents and encouraging them to engage in a wide range of exciting activities,
• Helping to coordinate and deliver unique packages of care and support to all residents,
• Assisting our Team Leaders and Registered manager in ensuring all residents receive the highest quality and care and support,
• Shared responsibility for coaching and deploying staff and managing rotas

A minimum of 2 years’ experience in providing care and support to older people is essential.

As a Senior Support Worker, you will also have compassion, motivation, diligence, and the ability to empathise with different individuals. You must be warm, well organised, and conscientious and demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills.

You will be required to work on a rota, undertaking early, late and weekend duties as required. Senior support workers are expected to participate in an on-call rota.

Vacancy Reference Number: 71971

Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number.

Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 28 days Leave and company paid enhanced DBS.

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization – Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold award.

Applications are reviewed as they are received and we do not provide feedback for unsuccessful applications. We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK – This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme and we are unable to accept applicants with a Skilled Worker Visa.