Live on Site Overnight Support Worker and Premises Caretaker - Weymouth

You will be working at East Boro Housing, Care and Support Trust, as part of the Aster Group. 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 and Premises Caretaker, you will work from 10pm to 8.30am, 5 nights per week. This is a sleep-in role where you will be sleeping in your own flat providing on-call service to 8 residents in Cranford Ave for 5 nights a week for £30.00 per sleeping night. The flat is attached to Cranford Avenue, as part of the tied accommodation. This is tied accommodation where rent is payable at a discounted rate and will be discussed in more detail at interview.

This is a fantastic opportunity if you’re looking for a rewarding role where you can really make a difference, while also enjoying the benefit of tied accommodation just a short walk from the seafront! The accommodation provided for the live-in Care and Support Worker is comfortable, well-equipped, and designed to make you feel at home. Located in a friendly and welcoming community, it offers a peaceful environment with all essential amenities on hand. Being part of this service means you’ll have the support of a dedicated team, opportunities to build strong relationships with those you care for, and a living space that makes your work-life balance easier to maintain.

While additional hours are not guaranteed as part of this role, there may be opportunities to work extra daytime hours as a Care and Support Worker alongside this position.

• Safeguarding is everybody’s business. The welfare and safeguarding of our service users is paramount as is your role and your level of responsibility 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 User's 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.

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.

You will need:

• 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 working for personalised care services for adults with physical, learning, and mental disabilities and providing personal care.

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

We cannot wait to hear from you! Apply as soon as possible with your most updated CV. All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & its subsidiary brands.