Position: Support Worker
Location: Barham, Kent
Hours: Full Time, Part Time and Bank Contracts available. Days and Nights including some weekends on a rota system.
Salary Details: £10.73 per hour (Hourly rate shown is inclusive of an additional £1.50ph secure supplement, based on FT hours).
We are currently looking to appoint Support Workers to join our friendly team. Are you a committed individual who wants to work with a company that understands how important Support Workers are to our patients’ recovery? You will be working with adults detained under the Mental Health Act with Learning Disabilities, mental health issues and Autism at Cedar House Hospital, Barham.
Essential:
• A caring attitude and a desire to make a difference
• Experience working within a care setting and young people and/or adults with Learning Disabilities, Autism and mental health problems preferred but not essential
• Eligibility to work in the UK
Role and Responsibilities:
As a Support Worker you will, under the direction and leadership of the nursing staff, ensure the highest standards of care and support are delivered to patients, encompassing all activities of daily living. You will act as a role model for patients and be actively involved in engaging patients with daily activities, educational programmes, behavioural support programmes and leisure/recreational activities as outlined in individual care plans.
Support Workers will work a mixture of days and night shifts which will include weekends on a rota system. Full time, Part time and Flexi Bank shifts are available.
Upon receipt of your application, we will conduct telephone interviews in the first instance, followed by inviting you to attend our Hospital to meet with key staff and undertake a site tour.
Benefits:
• Additional £1.50 an hour secure service supplement
• 2 week fully paid comprehensive induction programme
• Mentorship programme
• Free car-parking on site
• Free meals and drinks whilst on duty
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
• Career specific development opportunities
• Sick pay (4 weeks full and 4 weeks half pay)
• Access to Occupational Health
• Staff referral scheme


Who we are:
Cedar House is a 40 bed hospital for adults with learning disabilities, mental health issues, personality disorders, autism and challenging behaviours, who are detained under the Mental Health Act. Cedar House enjoys a beautiful rural location situated in the village of Barham, on the outskirts of Canterbury and is easily accessible by public transport, being on the main bus route between Canterbury and Folkestone.
Coveberry, part of the CareTech family, are a leading specialist healthcare provider, with Hospitals and centres throughout England, delivering wide ranging services in Adult Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, Specialist Brain Injury, Child and Adult Mental Health Services (CAMHS) including eating disorders, and social care for children with special needs.
Covid-19
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. If you have not heard back within 14 days, please consider your application to be unsuccessful on this occasion.