Support Worker

We’re looking to grow our team of passionate, dedicated Support Workers at our Supported Living Service in Caerleon, Newport, with various permanent part-time hours available.

This is more than just a job, it’s a chance to make a genuine, lasting difference. You’ll be supporting three incredible individuals with learning and physical disabilities, helping them live fulfilling, independent lives.

You’ll work a variety of shifts including days, nights, and weekends, offering both flexibility and variety in your role.

We also offer relief and maternity cover opportunities within this service, please check our website for more information on current vacancies.

Important Requirement: Due to the specific needs of the individuals we support and in line with current legal guidance, this role is open to female applicants only.

If you’re compassionate, reliable, and excited by the opportunity to be part of something truly rewarding, we’d love to hear from you.

Who are Codi Group?

Codi is a not-for-profit with a big heart and an even bigger mission. As Wales’ largest provider of housing, care, and support, we’re here to help people live well, feel supported, and rise to their full potential.

Every day, our teams support nearly 17,000 individuals across Wales with services that make a real and uplifting difference to their everyday lives.

Our name says it all: ‘Codi’ means rise in Welsh. It reflects who we are, where we come from, and our ambition to lift expectations, lift communities, and lift each other.

About the role

This service is home to individuals with Physical and Learning Disabilities. As a Support Worker, you will play a vital role in ensuring their safety, comfort, and wellbeing. Your support will focus on promoting independence where appropriate, providing reassurance, and responding to individual needs in a calm and attentive manner.

The service promotes the importance of the “do with and not do for” approach, and even during night-time hours this ethos remains at the heart of the support we provide.

Each individual has their own unique personality, routines, and overnight support needs. As part of the team, you will help maintain a peaceful environment, encourage healthy sleep routines, and provide support that enables the people we support to feel safe and respected in their home. Your role will be instrumental in creating continuity of care and ensuring consistency between day and night support.

Key Duties Will Include

• Provide high-quality personal care, administer medication, and respond to individual care needs in a respectful and person-centred way.
• Support individuals with daily routines, including morning and evening activities, as well as night-time support such as repositioning, comfort checks, and ensuring individuals are safe and settled.
• Maintain accurate digital records, document all observations (day and night), and communicate effectively with colleagues to ensure continuity of care.
• Carry out domestic tasks appropriate to the shift, including cleaning, laundry, meal preparation, and maintaining a safe, comfortable environment.
• Offer reassurance, emotional support, and meaningful interaction, adapting communication styles to meet individual needs at all times.
• Work collaboratively as part of the wider team, sharing information, supporting colleagues, and contributing ideas to continuously improve the service.

Skills and Experience Needed

A background of working with people with physical or mental health needs is desired, but not necessary as full training and support from senior staff and management is provided.

Please ensure your application evidences experience of the following:

• IT, Literacy & numeracy skills
• Experience working as part of a team and customer service skills

Values

At Codi, our values are Compassionate, Authentic, and Progressive. When you join us, you’ll embrace these principles and thrive in an environment shaped by them.

Pay and Pensions

• £25,877 (£13.45 per hour)
• Sleep-in rate: £62.64 per 8 hour shift - approx. 1 per week.
• Waking night rate: 20% Enhancement from 11pm to 7am
• Enhanced DBS which we will pay for
• Social Care Wales registration is fully reimbursed
• Defined Contribution (DC) Scheme with matched contributions up to 10%. Or,
• Defined Benefit (DB) 1/80th of final salary for every year of service.
• 3 x Life Cover linked to pension membership
• Saving scheme with competitive interest rate
• Give As You Earn scheme for tax efficient charity donations
• From 1st April 2026 the option to be either weekly or monthly paid.

Time off and Flexibility

• 26 days holiday, pro rata entitlement plus Bank holidays. Rising to 27 days after 1 years service or cash equivalent of 1 days’ annual leave.
• Maternity & Adoption Leave: 20 weeks
• Paternity Leave: 3 weeks

Wellbeing

• Sick Pay, rising with length of service up to 6 months full pay after 4 years.
• Eyecare: Up to £100 reimbursement towards eye tests and glasses.
• Free counselling, coaching, wellbeing team, and OH service to all colleagues
• Annual Health Check
• Health Cash Plan

Getting Around

• Mileage paid at 45p plus 5P per passenger per mile
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Personal Development

• Continuous professional training and development
• Leadership development programmes
• Professional memberships needed for your role are reimbursed
• Career coaching
• Support with funding and time for qualifications

Perks and Recognition

• Long Service Awards
• Blue Light Card Eligibility giving discounts at 15,000 brands.
• Colleague Discount platform

FREDIE

At Codi Group we are guided, in all that we do, by a group of principles that we call FREDIE, these are: Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, Engagement. This means that whatever your background, you will have an equal opportunity to rise with us and we encourage you to apply now.

If you would like any support with your application or to discuss any adjustments that you may require to support you to application process, please contact ***email_hidden*** or View phone number on unitedkingdom.jobradars.com quoting job ref 509945

How do you apply?

If you have the skills and experience required, please follow the prompts to apply now. We just need an up-to-date CV along with a few contact details so that we can get back in touch with you. We are interviewing quickly and occasionally close our jobs early, so please don’t delay in applying.

SJC

Pay: £13.45 per hour

Work Location: In person