Support Worker

Support Worker 

Cedar House, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw), on a 3 week rolling rota, this includes early starts and late finishes.

Pay £12 per hour (£23,464 per annum) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? As our Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have complex needs to develop their skills to live more independently in the community.  You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations.

Amazing we know!

Typical day as our Support Worker


* Assisting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.


* Customer group that you will be working with are all adult females who have experienced or at risk of experiencing, homelessness or rough sleeping.


* Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.


* Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.


* Cuppas, chats and catch ups.

There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to work together with colleagues too.    

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the Top Ten Great Places to Work in the UK!

You bring


* Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail. 


* Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children


* The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach.


* Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs. 

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role.  This remains under regular review.

Our team

You’ll join Fintan, Tracy, Sonia and our incomparable Cedar House team, we’re super passionate about what we do! We’re really proud of our track record in reacting amazingly quickly in providing housing and support to the most vulnerable members of our community. We’re a supportive bunch and like to look after each other like family and make sure we are all valued, backed up and respected.

You will also benefit massively by being supported by our unique Clinical Team.

Our Mental Health Practice leads, and Occupational Therapists help us to create a psychologically informed environment...