Night Support Worker

Salary: Annual Salary: £28,141.75 - £30,689.75

Category: Care

Position Type: Permanent Full-Time

Location: Boveridge College

Hours: 7.45pm-8.15am- 4 on 4 off shifts- average of 43.75 hours per week.

Additional Information: Hourly rate: £12.37 - £13.49 + £25 per night shift worked (approx. an additional £4,000 per year)

About Us:

At Aurora Boveridge College , we support young people between the ages of 16 and 25 who have additional social, emotional, autism and mental health needs.

We're currently looking for a   Night Support Worke r to assist our students in their homes (on-site) (no personal care responsibilities). Come and join our exciting team and make a difference.

The role:

As a Night support worker, you will play an important role in our young people's lives, preparing them for adult life and facilitating their transition into further education, training, or employment.

Following a handover from our day team, you'll support our students with their evening routine. You will mentor and support our young people in their evening activities, sports, or hobbies both on and off site and ensure they settle for night. This will be with the use of verbal and visual prompting dependent on the need of the young person.

You'll also provide a key liaison point for parents and carers and ensure all health/medical needs are looked after throughout the night. You will be the listening ear and emotional support for young people to talk to after a busy day.

The key to this role will be your ability to participate and to motivate whilst ensuring our students develop their own independent living skills.

Skills and Qualifications:

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate (no experience needed – we'll fund all your training):

· Willingness to participate, be positive and creative in meeting our young person's needs

· Able to support and develop independence skills such as budgeting, cooking, housekeeping as well as accessing the wider community

· Ability to prompt / encourage in a positive manner whilst providing social/emotional behavioural support

· Ability to show a strong understanding of what “good care” looks like and how to put the young person's needs first, whilst empowering them to be independent

· Due to our rural location access to transport and a drivers licence is essential

· Given the age of our students all applicants must be 21 and over

How to Apply

If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.