Flex bank Support Worker – Sunderland, Tyne & Wear Part Time

What’s your idea of working in care? We’d love to share a glimpse of life at Salutem with you!

At our core, we’re a team of people supporting people to live a life they love.

At Salutem we are proud to provide a range of care and support in our schools, day centres, and residential homes for children and adults. Just like any family, we want the very best for the individuals we support. Our aim at Salutem Care and Education is to empower people to live a life they choose, regardless of the care and support they need.

Each individual we support at Salutem Care and Education has an opportunity to live their best life each and every day. We are proud to offer outstanding levels of care, support and education for each individual we support as part of our Salutem family.

What’s your idea of working in care? We’d love to share a glimpse of life at Salutem with you!

Firstly, it’s important to share our care family at Laverneo is made up of ladies supporting ladies – to live a life they love.

Supporting people with complex care needs is what we do. Seeing a smile on someone’s face at the end of the day is so heartwarming and it makes what we do feel so worthwhile.

We love to spend our afternoons in our sensory room, stretching and spending time together. We’re looking for someone new to join us. If you’d like a job full of rewards with a team that feels like family, please find out more.

We’re Salutem and we are committed to making a positive impact on the lives of thousands of children and adults in England and Wales across our residential homes, schools and day centres.

Our Salutem family is made up of over 125 care and education provisions supporting individuals to overcome any personal challenges each day so they can achieve outstanding outcomes. Individuals in our Salutem family may have disabilities or require complex care, but that doesn’t stop them from having fun, laughing hard and loving life.

Laverneo is a 4-bed registered residential service rated Outstanding by CQC that supports women of any age to thrive who have a physical and/or learning disability. We support people to be independent in their own way whilst receiving the specialist support they require, from a specialist adapted environment in Sunderland.

The home sits within its own grounds and has fully accessible paths around the outside with beautiful gardens to three sides. Communal areas include a spacious living room, light and airy kitchen/dining room, laundry room, passage, hallway, a toilet/wet room and bathroom. The bathroom and wet room/toilet have tracking hoists in them. We encourage the people we support to personalise their own bedrooms which are all fitted with tracking hoists. There is access to wi-fi/broadband throughout the building.

As well as providing support to the individuals who live here you will also carry out the cooking, cleaning and all the other tasks you would do in your own home. As part of their day to day care, some of our ladies do need help with moving and their personal care too. Our staff team feel as at home here as the ladies who live here and we want someone to join our team who will care about the whole of Laverneo the way we do. We have a flexible rota and some of our shifts are sleep-ins – talk about dream job!

In regards to benefits, at Salutem, any day can be a payday. That’s right, you can withdraw up to 30% of your wages via Wagestream, so if you need some cash, we’ve got you covered.

As a keyworker in the Care sector, you’ll hold a valued role in society. You’ll qualify for discounts with a Blue Light card and we’re signed up to Perkbox which offers over 200 exclusive perks and discounts. If you qualify for a pension scheme and choose to opt in, we’ll support you to pay into this.

Inductions and training are a priority, and we’re committed to supporting you to find your feet when you join us. We’ll pay for any training you need to do your job. We also have an internal staff communications app, Blink, where everyone has a voice and can lean on each other for daily support, and celebrate success too.

For a more confidential chat you can access the Employee Support Helpline, to support you with any issues including financial advice, health and well-being and more.

We have a massive duty of care towards those we support who are often the most vulnerable in society, which is why our staff are encouraged to keep up to date with vaccines.

You can find out more about us on our recruitment site. There’s information about the team, our benefits, training and importantly what makes us 'HumanKind’. If you like the look of us, register your interest for a role. You never know, you might find a job to love, just around the corner