About this role
Job summary Package Description: Are you ready to make a real difference in someones life? Are you ready to take the lead and make a meaningful difference in peoples lives? Were looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Support Worker to join our respite service in Erith, Kent. In this role, youll help oversee and deliver high-quality, short-term support that provides both positive experiences for individuals and essential breaks for their families and primary carers. Reporting to the Registered Manager, youll divide your time between hands-on support and leadership or administrative responsibilities, ensuring the service runs smoothly and consistently delivers safe, person-centred care. This is a varied and rewarding role where your input directly supports both the people using the service and their wider support networks. About the people youll be supporting: Youll be supporting three female individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism who access the service for short stays. Each person has their own needs, preferences, and routines, which may differ from their home environment. Some may enjoy active outings in the community, while others prefer calm, home-based activities during their stay.
Main duties of the job Are you ready to take the lead and make a meaningful difference in peoples lives? Were looking for an experienced Senior Support Worker to join our respite service in Erith, Kent. In this role, youll help oversee high-quality, short-term support that provides positive experiences for individuals and essential breaks for their families and primary carers. Reporting to the Registered Manager, youll divide your time between hands-on support and administrative duties, ensuring the service delivers safe, person-centred care. Youll support three female individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism accessing the service for short stays. Each has their own needs and preferences, which may differ from their home environment. As part of your day-to-day work, you will encourage independence, support activities of daily living, communicate effectively, and engage service users to enhance their quality of life. This role offers £13.91 per hour, career development, training, and a pension scheme.
About us Agincare is celebrating 40 years of caring for communities. As a rapidly growing, family-owned care provider with over 5,500 team members, we continue to strengthen our services through recent care home developments and the launch of our new not-for-profit Childrens Services. Today, Agincare is one of the UKs largest care providers, delivering care across more than 170 locations nationwide. We are committed to supporting care leavers and the Armed Forces community through our alliances, offering guaranteed interviews to service leavers and members of the military community. All services are regulated by the CQC, and Agincare is proud to be an equal opportunities employer, encouraging applications from all backgrounds and experiences. We have a wide range of opportunities available and encourage you to explore our other vacancies if this role isnt a fit.
Job description Job responsibilities Package Description: Are you ready to make a real difference in someones life?
Are you ready to take the lead and make a meaningful difference in peoples lives?Were looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Support Worker to join our respite service in Erith, Kent.In this role, youll help oversee and deliver high-quality, short-term support that provides both positive experiences for individuals and essential breaks for their families and primary carers.
Reporting to the Registered Manager, youll divide your time between hands-on support and leadership or administrative responsibilities, ensuring the service runs smoothly and consistently delivers safe, person-centred care.This is a varied and rewarding role where your input directly supports both the people using the service and their wider support networks.
About the people youll be supporting:Youll be supporting three female individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism who access the service for short stays. Each person has their own needs, preferences, and routines, which may differ from their home environment.Some may enjoy active outings in the community, while others prefer calm, home-based activities during their stay.Your role is to create a welcoming, structured, and reassuring environment where they feel safe, respected, and able to enjoy their time away from home.
Youll focus on maintaining continuity of care, adapting quickly to individual support plans, and ensuring each stay is a positive and meaningful experience.At the same time, youll be contributing to providing families and carers with confidence and peace of mind while they take a well-earned break.
Where youll be working:Based in Bromley, this full-time role combines shift-based support with dedicated time for leadership and administrative duties.Youll play a key role in maintaining high standards of care, supporting colleagues, and ensuring the respite service operates effectively and responsively.
As an Agincare employee youll enjoy:
£13.91 per hour
Refer a friend scheme earn up to £500*
Outstanding career development
Fully funded training and career development
Blue Light card discount package
Company pension scheme
What is required from you?
A minimum of 12 months on your right to work
Full UK Drivers licence
level 2 in Health and Social Care and willing to work towards level 3
How we achieve our outcomes with the people we support.
As part of your day to day work you will be offering the following;
Encouraging people to play active roles in the communities in which they live, to encourage independence.
Supporting Activities of daily Living including social activities, personal care, routines, planning and preparation of meals and budgeting.
Communicating- effectively communicate using peoples chosen methods
Engaging- promoting and motivating people we support to enhance their quality of life
Specialising - supporting people who may need positive behavioural support approaches
Recording- keeping accurate records &reporting changes in health or circumstances of service users to management
Team player Working as part of a team, as well as being able to work using your own initiative.
About Agincare
Agincare is proudly celebrating 40years of caring for communities. As a rapidlygrowing, family-ownedcare provider with more than5,500 team members, and expanding every day, we continue to strengthen our services through recent care home developments and the launch of ournew not-for-profit Childrens Services. Today,Agincare is one of the UKs largest care providers, delivering care and nursing homes, home care, extra care, supported living, and live-in care across more than 170 locationsnationwide.As a signatory of theCare Leaver Covenant, we are committed tosupporting care leavers by guaranteeing either an interview or an informal career conversation.We are proud to support the Armed Forcescommunity through our alliance,offering guaranteed interviewsto service leavers and members of the military community.All of our services areregulated by the CQCand Agincare is proud to be anequal opportunities employerand encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences.At present, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.As care is always in high demand, we have a wide range of exciting opportunities available. If this particular role isnt the right fit for you, we encourage you to explore our other vacancies,www.agincare.com/careers
All of our care services are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Equal opportunities are important to us at Agincare and we welcome applications from all.
*Subject to terms and condition
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
A minimum of 12 months on your right to work, Full UK Drivers licence, level 2 in Health and Social Care and willing to work towards level 3
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.
Employer details Employer name Agincare
Address Enable
Bromley
BR1 3BE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.agincare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)