About the Job
We’re looking for a Night Support Worker to join our wonderful team on a part-time, permanent basis.
Salary: £13.68–£13.90 hourly rate depending on experience.
Enhancements:
- Weekend working – Time & a half
- Bank Holidays – Double time
- Night enhancement
Working Pattern: 10 hours per week.
Contract Length: Permanent.
Location: Hammonds, Bognor Regis.
Responsibilities
As a Night Support Worker, you will:
- Provide personal physical, emotional care and support during a waking night shift.
- Listen to people and treat all with respect, kindness and dignity.
- Undertake light domestic duties such as laundry and cleaning to ensure cleanliness, comfort, and safety.
- Complete regular hourly checks around the service, including checking on people’s wellbeing and building security.
- Provide safe, effective, and personalised support in helping individuals to bed and getting up in the morning and responding to their emotional and physical wellbeing during the night.
- Assist with moving and handling, e.g., helping people to walk, moving between wheelchair and chair using a hoist.
- Be on duty for up to 10‑hour shift, staying awake and able to provide appropriate care; may need to work evenings or weekends as required.
What you need to succeed
You will need to demonstrate a basic understanding of working with people with learning disabilities, dementia, other cognitive impairments, and adults with physical and sensory impairments.
Key Skills
- Ability to interpret information such as service complaints and redirect them to the appropriate person for resolution.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills to provide clear guidance to a range of people, including those less able to express themselves.
- Clear basic literacy and numeracy skills to record and document activities in the care plan.
- Ability to handle expressive behaviour from people and respond sensitively to families and carers.
- Capability to build relationships with people from a variety of cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds.
- Teamworking skills to complete shared tasks and deliver service to others.
Qualifications and Experience
- Basic literacy and numeracy skills for recording and documenting activities.
- Diploma Level 2 in Care, or willingness to work towards, or equivalent qualification (Desirable).
- Basic understanding of safeguarding, individuals’ needs and rights.
- Demonstrable successful experience of working as part of a team.
- Knowledge of Health and Safety practice, First Aid and Fire procedure, Manual Handling (Desirable).
- Previous experience of working in a care setting with people who have a disability or are vulnerable (Desirable).
Benefits
- Generous annual leave plus bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually.
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme.
- Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring.
- Health and wellbeing benefits, including Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans.
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres.
- Range of discounts with offers to save over £1,000 (including Argos, Samsung, ASOS, B&Q and many more).
- Car benefit scheme.
- Various commuting and business travel discounts and initiatives.
Equal Opportunities
West Sussex County Council is an equal opportunities employer committed to promoting an environment that is inclusive and free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of its people. We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and take every possible step to ensure that no individual will be disadvantaged.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, 5 years referencing and a health check.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Reference number: CAFHE06346.
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