190 Medical / Dental / Health Care jobs in Devizes, Wiltshire

Join us in this great and rewarding job, as our Lead Support Worker (known Internally as Positive Behavioural Support team Leader). You'll manage our team to provide person-centred and strengths-based support to our customer (let's call them J) and help them reach their full potential. J has complex needs including a learning disability and autism. J is a super intelligent, gentle and calm young man who needs our dedicated and positive team to help him reach his full potential. J has some sensory processing difficulties, is hypersensitive to sound and wears ear defenders to help him manager his sensitivity. When stressed or anxious, J can display behaviours that challenge us, and we need you to take the time to get to know him, and be caring, understanding, reassuring and positive. As part of our team, you'll help J overcome his barriers to help him lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach his true potential. Typical day as our PBS Team Leader

• Typical day as our Lead Support Worker
• Helping J overcome barriers and help them lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach their true potential.
• Recognising their strengths and abilities and help them take the small steps at their pace, never losing sight of their dreams and aspirations!
• Supporting J using Positive Behavioural Support model to promote independence and social inclusion through person centred support.
• Monitoring our customers' mental and physical health to identify any signs of deterioration and take positive risk management to their health and wellbeing.
• Motivating, directing, guiding, coaching and supporting your team to work with our customers.
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 Place to Work in the UK! You have,
• You'll work on a rota basis; 15-hour shifts between 7am and 10pm but this means plenty of days off! there will be a requirement to complete some sleep-in shifts and on call duties, but this is paid in addition to your standard rate.
• Able to use technology to update create and update support plans, communicate with colleagues and complete online learning.
• We'll make sure you have a fantastic induction with ongoing learning and support.
• You'll need an Enhanced DBS check to do this job, which we pay for.
A place where you belong Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work! What's in it for you?
• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a "me day" to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We'll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matters to us, that's why we're the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• Explore our benefits in detail on our website.
Find out more Click APPLY NOW to see the PBS Team Leader Job Description, find out about us and help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don't delay applying or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there's anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk


• Experience in CQC Regulated services, with a Level 3 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or equivalent.
• Worked as a Senior Support Worker, leading support for people with complex needs, or behaviours of distress.
• A patient and calm approach, able to adapt your style to X's needs, as well as to the specific occasion and circumstances, even when they challenge us.
• Great people management and motivation skills, bringing colleagues together to share information, best practice and fostering creativity.
• Experience of positive risk management, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.
• To help J get out and about, it would be great if you could drive but this is not essential.
• Ideally got Makaton, but that's not a deal breaker!
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., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .