Senior Support Worker

Senior Support Worker

Job reference:005238

Salary:£25,652.88 per annum

Closing date:30/04/2026

Location:Milton Keynes

Job Description

Ready to Take the Next Step in Your Social Care Career? Become a Senior Support Worker with MacIntyre

Are you passionate about supporting others and ready to develop your career? At MacIntyre, you’ll combine hands-on support work with opportunities to lead, guide, and inspire others. You’ll continue making a real difference in people’s lives while building your confidence, leadership skills, and experience within a supportive team.

About the Role
This role is shared between two services, supporting adults aged 40 to 65 to live as independently as possible. Each day brings variety. You might:

• Support someone to join a local activity or try something new
• Help with daily routines and personal goals
• Promote independence and wellbeing
• Listen, share a laugh, and brighten someone’s day

You’ll also take on leadership tasks, including planning rotas, supervising team members, assisting with recruitment and induction, and stepping in for the frontline manager when needed.

Training and Support
Some people may need help with personal care, medication, or managing challenging behaviour. You’ll receive full training and ongoing support to feel confident in your role.

Working Hours
Shift-based role including early and late shifts, weekends, bank holidays, and sleep-ins. Example shifts: 07:30–15:00 and 14:30–22:00. Rotas are carefully planned to support work-life balance.

Take the Next Step
If you’re ready to grow your career, lead with compassion, and make a difference across two vibrant services, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and discover where a career with MacIntyre could take you.

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About you

You will need some experience working with vulnerable people, ideally those with learning disabilities. Perhaps you have been a support worker or care worker and are now looking to step up to a more senior role with more responsibilities and greater challenges.

You will need to be flexible and organised, with a positive approach.

You must also be a driver with a UK manual or automatic licence, as you will be driving service vehicles, as well as possibly commuting places, using your own transport.

About us
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.

We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.

Pay and Rewards

We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

• Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
• Workplace Pension scheme – MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
• MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
• MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
• Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
• Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)

How to apply
If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV.

Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call usand we will send an application form to you.

Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today.

Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement

MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.

MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. As part of this commitment, our accessibility toolbar allows you a number of options: read adverts in another language (including Welsh for our Services located in Wales), change the font to Open Dyslexia, change the colours, and many others. Just click the button marked “Accessibility” at the top of the screen.