Senior Support Worker – Sunderland (permanent, complex care)

We are recruiting permanent Senior Support Workers for a specialist supported living provider in Sunderland. You will support adults with complex needs and behaviours that challenge in enhanced staffing packages (3:1 to 5:1), and help guide and support the care team on shift.

This is a demanding role. It involves behaviours that challenge, and where lawful, authorised and trained, physical intervention.

About the job:

• Permanent, PAYE employed
• 36 to 48 hours a week
• Pay: £15.00 per hour
• Paid annual leave, pension contributions and free training (including DMI and mandatory training)

What you need:

• Significant experience supporting people with complex needs and behaviours that challenge
• Experience of physical intervention in an appropriate care setting
• Experience supporting or informally supervising other care workers
• Good knowledge of safeguarding, DoLS, least restrictive practice and incident management
• DMI training is highly desirable
• Two suitable referees, ideally including a recent line manager
• Enhanced DBS (or willing to get one)
• Unrestricted right to work in the UK. This role cannot offer visa sponsorship.

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