Youth Support Worker
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Role: Support Worker
Salary:
23,400 plus 900 car allowance, mileage and on-call allowance
Location: Gloucester
Hours: Full time/part time across 7 days with
on-call and occasional weekends/sleep-ins.
Driving licence and access to a vehicle is
essential
Horizon Care have an opportunity for a
Support Worker to join our fantastic team in the Gloucester area.
Our Supported Accommodation division provides support to
Young People from the age of 16 to get ready to live independently. If
you think you have transferable skills and the drive to help young
people fulfil their potential, then we would love to hear from
you.
Bright Futures, Inspired By You.
About the role:
As a
Support Worker, you will be working with unaccompanied asylum seeking
children and care leavers to live independently.
Support
workers come from different backgrounds and often have experience and
skills gained in a variety of roles and environments. If you think you
have transferable skills and the drive to help young people fulfil
their potential, then we would love to hear from you.
You must
be practical, flexible, and able to respond to a variety of
situations.
If you are passionate about making a difference to
the lives of young people and enabling them to shape their own future,
then we want you to be part of our team.
How you'll be
rewarded:
- Real Living Wage employer
- Competitive pay rates
- Christmas bonus
- Blue Light Card
- Colleague referral scheme with cash rewards - earn up to 2500 per referral!*
- Financial wellbeing service
- Life Assurance
- Option to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
- Tastecard - spectacular savings on dining, pizza, cinema tickets, supermarkets, and UK attractions!
- Opportunity to progress in your career through our Education Academy, and ongoing training and professional development.
- Comprehensive and tailored induction programme including face-to-face training, online modules, shadowing, and local induction period.
- Face-to-face therapeutic training and support for all colleagues via our SHINE programme.
- Access to a wide range of free online courses for all colleagues on a variety of topics
- Employee assistance programme - free, confidential support via Bupa.
- Community and wellbeing - Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need to feel good about what you do. We're in this together.
- Supportive management and senior leaders.
- High quality CPD opportunities.
- Free eye checks.
Horizon Care is also committed to
safeguarding young people and most posts will require an enhanced DBS
clearance.
Horizon Care is committed to ensuring equality of
opportunity in employment for all, to taking action to promote
inclusion and avoid discrimination. We welcome applications from all
sections of the community.
INDSA
Youth Support Worker
Horizon Care and Education
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