About The Role

NIGHT PRACTITIONER / NIGHT SUPPORT WORKER – CHILDREN’S SERVICES – £12.25 to £13.25 (DOE)

Due to continued organisational growth and development opportunities for our current staff, we are recruiting for Night Practitioner to join our well-established team.

About the position:

As a Night Practitioner, you will be key in helping young people with complex needs. This is a challenging role, but the rewards are incomparable to any other job. You will be working in an environment where the little things that you do every day could have life-changing results. Your ambition for the young people you support will help them take steps to fulfilling their potential.

What will you be doing:

About You

What experience and qualifications do you need:

• A genuine passion for care and to be motivated by contributing to the progression of others.
• A strong team player
• Resilience to keep going at difficult times and to ask for support if needed
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Computer literacy
• A Diploma Level 3 in Young People’s Workforce (or equivalent) or a willingness to complete this qualification within a fixed timeframe.

About Kisimul Group

Kisimul Group Ltd are a group of independent specialist schools and adult provisions providing exceptional residential care and award-winning education to children, young people and adults with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, severe and complex learning difficulties, global development delay and associated challenging behaviour.

Kisimul is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Kisimul is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality for all

All applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS Check. Kisimul Group Ltd is an equal opportunities employer.

About The Role

Night Life Practitioner

Benefits

Genuine career development opportunities with transparent pay grades (find out more here – Kisimul | Autism, Learning Disability, Residential Care)

• • Genuine career development opportunities with transparent pay grades (find out more here – Kisimul | Autism, Learning Disability, Residential Care)
  • Fully funded qualifications – Diploma Level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care
  • Blue Light card – which give you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
  • Refer a friend – Earn upto £500 through our refer a friend scheme
  • WageStream – a financial wellbeing app, allowing you early access to some of your wages for those unforeseen expenses
  • Help@hand – a well being app which gives you access to unlimited GP appointments, confidentiality 24/7 mental health support and physiotherapy sessions
  • Life Assurance
  • Flexible working patterns

What is it like to work at Kisimul? Click here to hear our teams talking about life at Kisimul: https://youtu.be/pP-sFmzkR88

Find out more about Meaningful Life Model: https://youtu.be/XWo2VXzeGIg

About the position:

As a Night Support Worker, you will be key in supporting young adults with complex needs. We are looking for a dedicated and ambitious individual who can offer complete commitment to supporting our young adults to fulfil their potential. This is a challenging role with huge rewards.

What will you be doing:

• Working with the staff team across all levels to safeguard our young adults at all times.
• Participating in a wide range of innovative and exciting recreational events held within the home and wider community.
• Assisting with practical tasks relating to care. For example, cooking and cleaning.
• Creating positive relationships with the young adults, maintaining dignity and respect at all times.
• Meeting the physical, emotional, behavioural and cultural needs of the young adults.
• Continually maintaining accurate and clear record keeping.
• Ensuring that the needs of the young adults are being met and regularly reviewing and recording any changes to their needs.
• Actively contributing to the development of the team.

About You

About Kisimul Group

About The Role

Night Life Practitioner – £12.25 ph rising to £13.25 (Experience dependent)

Swinderby Sites: Hawthorn House, The Old Vicarage, Church View

Benefits

• Genuine career development opportunities with transparent pay grades (find out more here – Kisimul | Autism, Learning Disability, Residential Care)
• Fully funded qualifications – Diploma Level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care
• Blue Light card – which give you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
• Refer a friend – Earn upto £500 through our refer a friend scheme
• WageStream – a financial wellbeing app, allowing you early access to some of your wages for those unforeseen expenses
• Help@hand – a well being app which gives you access to unlimited GP appointments, confidentiality 24/7 mental health support and physiotherapy sessions
• Life Assurance
• Flexible working patterns

At Kisimul we know caring is not just a skill, it’s much more, it’s a gift, your personal gift that you willingly give and share with others. Know what we mean? Then we’re on the look-out for amazing carers like you.

Kisimul provide exceptional services for children with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs, through our registered schools, college and care homes in Lincolnshire.

Apply to be a Night Support Worker and join our amazing team at our Swinderby sites today, we’ll encourage you to:

Be Yourself – bringing 100% of you to work everyday.

We’ll Grow Together – developing professional skills, pay and qualifications.

Supporting you to Think Forward – to create an exciting and rewarding career for your future.

About the Role.

As a Night Support Worker/ Night Life Practitioner you’ll be an integral part of the team, teaching young people life skills in context and support them to integrate these skills. We’ll give you all the training you’ll need. You’ll contribute to and promote the development of young peoples’ communication, self-help, and independence skills – undertaking actions devised by other specialist colleagues, such as speech therapists and educational psychologists and providing feedback on sessions. Plus, support individuals with maintaining and improving their health and supporting emotional needs, always promoting increased independence. Support Workers participate in a wide range of innovative and exciting recreational activities such as trips to the Safari Park, fun fairs or local restaurants.

Our new care model is ground breaking.

Meaningful life is our innovative new model – an industry first. Providing care and education to people we support is at the centre of all our decision making, with the ambition to enable them to fulfil their most meaningful life. We bring all our specialist teams together from education, therapies and care and put the people we support right in the centre of our family of experts to deliver a meaningful life.

About You

About You.

If you have a background in care work, great, we’ll work with you to develop you to where you want to get to, however, you don’t need a background in care to become a Support Worker, just a caring approach and passion for helping others.

About Kisimul Group

We have fixed rota patterns, as well as flexibility to suit your home life.

Nights – 38.5hrs per week. 7.30pm and finishing at 7.30am (1 hour break).

The rota pattern is typically a 2-week rota. Week 1 works Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat and Sun. Week 2 works, Wed and Thu.

Flexible hours can be discussed to suit you and business needs.

Choose your career pathways and we’ll help build your skills to get you there.

Pay progression recognising your professional development and career progression.

Many of our senior leaders have been promoted from support roles and we’ve supported them along the way.

We’ll pay and support you to learn new skills and to pass your care diploma.

Pay transparency:

The Support Worker salary starts at £12.25 ph and can increase to £13.25 ph depending on your experience and development.

We also offer enhanced hourly rates on additional hours, for those who choose to work overtime.

What is it like to work at Kisimul? Click here to hear our teams talking about life at Kisimul: https://youtu.be/pP-sFmzkR88

Find out more about Meaningful Life Model: https://youtu.be/XWo2VXzeGIg

Ready to do 100% you. Then apply today and begin a new journey.

Want more info? Watch this short video to find out what it’s like to be a Support Worker at Kisimul: https://tinyurl.com/52ysryv7