Support Worker - Waking Nights in Washingborough

Waking Night Support Worker - 36 Hours per week

Shifts: 8pm-8am (3 nights per week)

Location: Metheringham, Lincoln, LN4

If you’re looking for a role where your presence truly matters, where calm nights and gentle reassurance make a meaningful difference, this will feel like home. You’ll be supporting two ladies and two gentlemen, all in their 50s and 60s, who share their supported living home. Your nights will be mostly lone working. While the house sleeps, you’ll provide safe, compassionate support, always at the pace of the people who live here, always in a way that honours their independence and dignity. You’ll offer full personal care to three people, including stoma care for one person, and gentle monitoring of anyone who may need reassurance through the night. You’ll also support epilepsy care, dysphagia guidance, and general overnight wellbeing. Daytimes in this home are full of joy, cinema trips, meals out, concerts, pub outings, holidays, theatre visits, church music, and time with family. Your consistent nighttime support ensures they can embrace these days feeling rested, comfortable, and ready to enjoy what they love most. This is a role where you become part of their routine, their comfort, and their sense of security.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe, compassionate overnight care and personal care to residents, including stoma care for one person.
• Offer monitoring and reassurance during the night; respond to individual communication styles (two residents use spoken words, one communicates through sounds, gestures, and body language).
• Support epilepsy care, dysphagia guidance, and general overnight wellbeing.
• Maintain a person-centred approach, staying calm, attentive, and respectful of complex healthcare needs.
• Work primarily lone during night shifts.

Qualifications and requirements

• Experience isn’t essential; importance is placed on compassion, presence, and the ability to stay calm and attentive throughout the night.
• You’ll be person-centred in everything you do, able to listen with patience and support people with complex healthcare needs respectfully and confidently.
• You’ll respond gently to individual communication styles (two residents use spoken words; one communicates through sounds, gestures, and body language).
• We welcome applications from everyone who has the right to work in the UK and value diversity in our workforce.
• If a driving licence is required for this role you will need to produce a copy of the driving licence at the onboarding stage.
• Enhanced DBS paid for by us; an enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.
• As Disability Confident Leaders, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
• As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 03003039150.
• We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all of our recruitment communications.

Benefits

• A competitive payrate with uplift for overtime you chose to work.
• Flexible shift patterns to suit your needs.
• 30 days paid Annual Leave (including public holidays - pro rata).
• Opportunities for career progression.
• Supported "Learn to Drive" scheme (up to 30 driving lessons, 1 theory/practical test - all paid for by us).
• Salary advance scheme (access up to 50% of earned pay before payday).
• High Street Discounts - Retail and Entertainment (supermarkets, hospitality, pubs, cinema etc.).
• Life Assurance and Company Pension.
• Industry leading training.
• Enhanced DBS paid for by us, as above.