Support Worker

Support Worker 

Cheltenham

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw), working a shift pattern covering the service 7 days a week

Earn £24,850 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 Lead Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have complex multiple high level support needs including alcohol and substance misuse, mental health and homelessness 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.


* Helping customers with daily living activities such as 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 


* To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes.

The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage! 

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 Richard - our Senior Client Service Manager - and Rea - our Cheltenham based Client Service Manager along with our new Gloucester based Client Service Manager and the rest of the ABS Gloucestershire team to achieve high levels of support and exceptional outcomes to a large and challenging client base.

We’re super passionate about what we do!

We’re really proud of the difference we can and do make to support customers to achieve independent living.  We are a supportive team and work hard to ensure this is a relaxed and fun environment to work in. 

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