Support Worker - Waking Nights

Support Worker - Waking Nights

Job reference: 005310

Salary: £12.82 per hour

Closing date: 30/06/2026

Location: Bolton

Job Description

Waking Nights Support Worker – Empowering People with Autism and Learning Disabilities

12-Hour Waking Night Shifts

Are you passionate about making a real difference in someone's life?

This is an exciting opportunity to support a gentleman who has recently moved from a long-stay hospital into his own home, beginning a new chapter built around independence, choice, and living life on his own terms. You will join a small, dedicated team providing overnight support to two gentlemen living in separate apartments within the same building.

At MacIntyre, we believe in seeing the person, not the label. Guided by our DNA and values, you'll play an important role in ensuring people feel safe, respected, and supported to live the life they choose.

About the Role

As a Waking Nights Support Worker, you will provide active overnight support, promoting wellbeing, safety, and positive outcomes throughout the night. Using an individualised, person-centred approach, you will:

• Provide attentive and responsive overnight support tailored to each person's unique needs, preferences, and routines.
• Promote a calm, safe, and reassuring environment that supports quality sleep and emotional wellbeing.
• Support people with any overnight needs while maintaining their dignity, choice, and independence.
• Complete relevant monitoring, recording, and handovers to ensure continuity of support across the team.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to deliver consistent, high-quality support that reflects each person's goals and aspirations.
• Contribute to a positive and enabling environment where people are valued, listened to, and supported to flourish.

About You

We're looking for people who are:

• Compassionate, patient, and committed to seeing the potential in every person.
• Calm, observant, and confident in responding to changing situations during the night.
• Passionate about delivering person-centred support that respects individuality, rights, and choice.
• Reliable team players who communicate effectively and contribute positively to a supportive team culture.
• Resilient, proactive, and able to work independently while knowing when to seek support.

Previous experience is welcome but not essential. What matters most is your values, attitude, and commitment to supporting people to live meaningful lives.

A driving licence is not required; however, you must be able to travel reliably to and from the service for waking night shifts.

"Please note, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship as we await further guidance from the Home Office. Applications requiring sponsorship cannot be considered at this time. We appreciate your understanding."

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About you
Experience isn’t always necessary. If you have the right attitude, good customer service skills, share our values and are willing to learn, you’re likely to be a great fit. We are looking for people who celebrate differences, and we strive to make all our staff feel included, valued and respected.

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.

Training and Development

At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.

But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge.

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 us 01908 357 016 and 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.

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