Support Worker Waking Nights

Support Worker Waking Nights

Job reference: 005343

Salary: £12.82 per hour

Closing date: 03/07/2026

Location: Milton Keynes

Job Description

Night Owl? Make a Real Difference While the World Sleeps!

Location: Crownhill

Hours: Part-Time, 19 hours per week (Sunday and Monday nights | 22:00 – 07:30)

Looking for a consistent income that leaves your weekdays and your Friday/Saturday nights completely free? Join our team in Crownhill as a Waking Night Support Worker for just two nights a week!

What you’ll be doing: While the world winds down for the week, you’ll be the reassuring, supportive presence that our residents need. In our two adjoining houses, we support 14 fantastic adults with learning disabilities and autism. If they wake up restless during the night, you’ll be there to help—offering emotional support, personal care, or help with medication. Between check-ins, you'll also handle some light cleaning and admin tasks to set the daytime team up for success.

Why this 19-hour role is perfect:

• The Ultimate Rota:Work Sunday and Monday nights, and your weekends (Friday/Saturday) and weekdays are entirely yours.
• No Experience Necessary:We hire for empathy and reliability. We will provide you with full training and continuous support from our Service Manager and Senior Practitioners.
• A Rewarding Environment:Our residents are a fun, active bunch who love everything from Lego and puzzles to pub trips and music. Your support ensures they rest well so they can live lifetheirway.

Ready to kickstart a rewarding career at MacIntyre, Apply today!

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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.

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

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.

COVID-19 Information

We will take every precaution to keep you and everyone involved safe during the recruitment process and your employment with MacIntyre. We encourage all our employees to follow Government advice and get vaccinated against COVID and flu. If you are a frontline care worker, you are on the priority list for vaccination.