Senior Support Worker – Newcastle (permanent, complex care)

Supportive Bridge is recruiting a permanent Senior Support Worker in the Newcastle area for a specialist supported living provider. These are demanding roles in high-acuity services supporting people with complex needs and behaviours that challenge.

• Permanent, PAYE employed role
• 36 to 48 hours a week
• Pay: £15.00 per hour
• Paid annual leave, pension contributions and free mandatory and in-house training

What the role involves:

• Everything a Support Worker does on complex, high-acuity services (3:1 to 5:1 packages), at a senior level
• Supporting and informally supervising other support workers on shift
• Safeguarding, DoLS, least restrictive practice and incident management

What you need:

• Significant experience supporting people with complex needs and behaviours that challenge
• Experience of physical intervention in an appropriate care setting (where lawful, authorised and trained)
• Experience supporting or supervising other care workers
• Good knowledge of safeguarding, DoLS, least restrictive practice and incident management
• DMI (Dynamis) training is highly desirable; PMVA or equivalent may be accepted, subject to review

Right to work: you must have unrestricted right to work in the UK. These roles cannot offer visa sponsorship.

The provider makes all hiring decisions after its own application and online interview. Shift patterns and start dates are confirmed by the provider.

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