We are looking for confident Care & Support Workers with a passion for delivering outstanding care.
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You will be working a full time contract (37.5 hours per week) with 12 hour shifts across days, nights and weekends at Cygnet Hospital Bury Dunes.
Your role involves working with male and female service users on one of our high priority adult wards, supporting individuals with personality disorders and other mental health issues.
Successful applicants will attend a 3‑week full time induction at the start of employment (Monday to Friday 9am‑5pm).
Cygnet Bury Dunes provides a wide range of inpatient mental health services for men and women, including specialist deaf services and emergency admission services. Each user has a bedroom with en suite facilities and a range of communal spaces such as a gym, laundry, occupational therapy kitchen, therapy garden and woodland walkways to the Elton Reservoir.
Main duties of the job
Your day‑to‑day responsibilities include:
- Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach for all our service users, patients & residents
- Provide guidance and encouragement through physical & emotional support
- Learn about individuals’ specific needs and provide help in the most appropriate way
- Assist with medical & welfare needs and report as required
- Safeguard
- Maintain a safe and clean environment for all
About us
Why Cygnet? We’ll offer you:
- £12.60 per hour salary
- An opening to undertake further learning with our excellent apprenticeship scheme
- Flexible working with opportunity for overtime
- Regular coaching & appraisal
- Expert supervision & peer support
- Employee discount savings & Cycle to Work scheme
- Wellbeing centre with exercises, recipes, financial and mental health advice
Please note: successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.
You are:
- Genuinely driven with a desire to make a real difference in people’s lives
- An excellent communicator and a good team player
- Sensitive and intuitive with the energy required to provide a trusting, stimulating & varied environment
- Committed to empowering & supporting service user independence
What next?
If you care about making a difference we want to talk to you. Click the button to apply. xwzovoh
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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