Night Care Worker in Bolton

Whether that’s helping people to live independently, or creating spaces to learn, work and play, you’ll be making sure adults with disabilities or complex health needs have a chance to thrive, right in the heart of their local communities.

The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.

We are seeking a Night Care Worker to join one of our supported living services in Blackrod, Bolton. We aim to provide care and support and promote independence and inclusion within the local community through methods including positive behaviour support. We aim to empower the individuals we support to take control of their own lives and gain greater independence, by teaching communication, choice and fulfilment.

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people that we support and expects all of our staff and volunteers share this commitment.

Location – Blackrod, Bolton.

Salary – £13,173.33 (£1,098.78 per month) – Living Wage

Enhancement - Time and a quarter at weekends and hours worked during the week between 11pm and 6am.

Hours per week – 20 hours per week. Each shift is 10 hours worked flexibly over 2 days of the week, including weekends. Additional shifts are available but not guaranteed.

As a Night Care Worker, you will work as part of a supported living team providing support for an adult male with autism and severe learning disabilities and epilepsy. The core tasks will include attending to the needs of the service user during the night, along with domestic duties and appropriate record keeping in accordance with legislation and regulation. Another member of staff will sleep in the unit and can be disturbed if there is an emergency.

The post holder will be expected to attend staff meetings, supervision, and annual appraisals, as well as attending the Trust’s training courses and those provided in-house, together with a willingness to undertake an appropriate level QCF programme, including working the occasional day shifts to gather the relevant evidence to support the qualification. This role requires Lone Working.

Working on your own initiative and as part of a team, you will be assisting the service user to fulfil the aims of their person-centred plan. You will support the service user with communication and work closely in a team that has a passion to improve their lives whilst in our care.

About you....

Do you have the skills we are looking for?

• An ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, taking the lead when required, maintaining & encouraging open and honest communication.
• You must have a good understanding of English and IT skills and be happy to complete all the paperwork and care plans to a good quality, which includes daily recording on IT systems and other records such as incident reports.
• Competence in administering medication and simple medical procedures for the young people as appropriate, and a willingness to undertake training if required.
• Take responsibility for the security and maintenance of the house/unit during the night, including housekeeping duties as required and utilising the sleep-in member of staff or on-call manager as required.

We also offer....

• Annual Leave Full time entitlement is 27-day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years. Based on a working pattern of 5 days per week. Reduced days and hours will be pro-rated.
• Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions and up to 6 x basis salary death in service.
• Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card.
• Proud to be a real living wage employer.
• Refer a friend scheme, rewards for recommending a friend to work with us.
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications.
• Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleagues and free weekly yoga session in person or online.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home.

We also provide a caring, supportive environment for all our employees, with a strong emphasis on a good work / life balance, and this something you can’t put a value on!

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself). This role will involve regulated activity.

We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.

We currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.

If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way, please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you.