# Senior Support Worker

**Company**: Priorygroup
**Location**: Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://jobs.priorygroup.com/en/postings/504b1bb1-fc88-4869-a537-a58ce7670b8b?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Cherrywood House in Weston-super-Mare is seeking a Senior Support Worker to join their team.

The home provides residential support to 11 adults on the autism spectrum or with a learning disability, set in its own woodland grounds.

The successful candidate will be part of a compassionate team providing personalised support using proven therapies to help individuals live as independently as possible.

### Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Support Worker, you will assist qualified staff with assessing and implementing individual care plans, undertake routine tasks and activities to facilitate wellbeing, dignity and treatment of residents.

### Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Resilience and natural empathy are essential for this role, along with experience in leading a support worker team.

### Benefits

- Contributory pension scheme

- Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes such as gym membership, IT technology and Healthcare Cash Plan

- Access to development opportunities

- Sponsorship of professional qualifications through the Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel

- Leadership & management development

- Long service award

- Refer a friend bonuses

## Skills

### Required
- resilience
- empathy
- team leadership

### Nice to have
- experience in leading a support worker team

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Source: [Apply at jobs.priorygroup.com](https://jobs.priorygroup.com/en/postings/504b1bb1-fc88-4869-a537-a58ce7670b8b?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)