We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Support Worker to join our team in Coppull, Chorley. We are looking for a motivated and experienced individual to work within our supported living service for adults with learning disabilities. 

Your role will involve providing consistent, positive support, helping each person achieve independence and outcome-focused goals within their own person-centred plan.

As a Senior Support Worker, your duties will include ensuring that all service users receive high-quality, individualised, person-centred support.

Flexibility is essential, as the role may require working evenings and weekends.

• To provide individualised person-centred support to people with learning disabilities and mental health needs, living both in the service and in their own homes; to enable them to enjoy a fulfilling and valued life, to participate in the community and to develop their abilities as fully as possible.
• To ensure that the service provided is responsive to the needs and preferences of service users and their families. To ensure that all contractual and regulatory requirements are met in full and that national minimum standards are exceeded.
• To work collaboratively as part of a multi disciplinary team approach to meeting the needs of people residing at the service.
• To provide mentorship; support; guidance for the staff team working within the service.
• To ensure that all service users receive high quality, individualised, person-centred support which enables them to enjoy a fulfilling and valued life, to participate in the community and to develop their abilities as fully as possible.
• To support the Team Leader with staff supervisions, uploading files and audits, organising shift cover and completing rotas if required.
• To manage the team in the absence of the Team Leader.

For the full job description, including the keys areas of responsibilities and accountabilities, please click the 'apply now' button. 

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation – Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold awarded.

• Ability to articulate and communicate a progressive vision for the delivery of learning disability and mental health services.
• Ability to engage with service users, and to develop and sustain warm and trusting relationships.
• Good verbal communication skills and ability to listen sensitively to others.
• Good written communication skills.
• Ability to demonstrate respect for difference and diversity.