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Senior Support Worker

31,492 per year
Park Avenue, Kent PBS
Full-time
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Senior Support Worker – Make Every Day Matter!

Location: Park Avenue, Kent PBS

Salary: £16.15 per hour (£31,492 per annum) plus benefits

Hours:  37.5 hrs per week - Guaranteed, stability you can count on

Driving Licence:  Desirable but not essential

Visa Sponsorships:  Not available

What’s In It For You?

  • Guaranteed hours – because your time is valuable
  • Paid training & career development – grow with us
  • Supportive team vibes – we’ve got your back
  • Wagestream – access your earnings instantly, stay in control

What You'll be Doing

As a Senior Support Worker at SeeAbility, you will work closely with management to mentor, supervise, and develop a confident, high-performing team. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

Leadership & Culture

  • Leading by Example: Act as a role model, championing SeeAbility’s core values to encourage an open, safe, inclusive, and fair working environment.

  • Relationship Building: Serve as an ambassador for the organisation, building positive connections with residents, families, healthcare professionals, and the local community.

  • Continuous Improvement: Support organisational growth and change by proactively solving problems, sharing key insights, and addressing concerns or risks early.

People Management

  • Rota & Shift Management: Oversee efficient staffing rotas to maximise the quality of support while maintaining cost-effectiveness and adapting quickly to unexpected schedule changes.

  • Team Development: Coordinate staff inductions, identify training needs, and provide hands-on coaching and competency assessments to help your team grow.

  • Performance & Well-being: Support recruitment, champion staff well-being initiatives, deliver positive feedback, and assist management with both formal and informal HR processes using internal systems (Cascade).

Quality, Compliance & Safeguarding

  • Person-Centred Support: Empower your team to deliver high-quality, safe care tailored entirely to the priorities and choices of the people we support.

  • Regulatory Compliance: Ensure the home remains fully compliant by adhering to social care legislation, data protection rules, and internal policies, while keeping meticulous quality outcome records.

  • Safeguarding: Maintain a transparent and empowering culture where safeguarding concerns are proactively identified, reported, and managed.

What You’ll Need

  • Strong English communication skills (spoken & written)
  • Be a supportive team player who leads by example, professional, calm under pressure, and committed to exceptional support
  • Oversee daily tasks, helping the deputy manager with staff performance, development, and appraisals
  • Hold a Level 2 QCF in Health & Social Care (or equivalent) and be willing to work toward Level 3, with good understanding of supported/residential care standards
  • Take ownership of delivering high‑quality, person‑centred care
  • Help set and achieve meaningful short and long‑term goals
  • Plan fun, creative activities—from trips away to learning, and social opportunities
  • Treat the people we support, and their families, with dignity, respect, and fairness
  • Live and work in line with SeeAbility’s values

Join Our Support Team - Make a Real Difference! 

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If you’re looking for a role where you don’t just work — you thrive, hit that apply button and let’s make a difference together. 

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