Job Description

Home Care Support Worker, Learning Disability Service, Beaconsfield Villas

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Posted on 27 June 2025 Apply
Directorate BHCC: Homes and Adult Social Care Salary 28,163 - 30,060 full time (14.60 - 15.58 per hour) plus enhancements for evening. weekend working and Bank Holidays Contract Permanent Closing Date Apply by 20 July 2025

Location

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Beaconsfield Villas, Brighton






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Job Summary

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Job reference orbis/TP/490/36324
Positions available 5
Working hours Full time - Part time
Closing date 20 July 2025
Job category Care - Adults
Organisation Brighton & Hove City Council

Job introduction

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CARE FOR OTHERS - MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Brighton and Hove City Council are recruiting various full time and part time roles, permanent, Home Care Support Workers, with experience of autism and challenging behaviour, to work at Beaconsfield Villas.


Are you looking for a rewarding, varied role where each day can offer a fresh challenge? Are you passionate about making a real difference to someone's life? Value treating people with dignity and respect? Have you worked with or had experience of supporting adults with learning disabilities?


Are you looking for an opportunity to further your career?


If you enjoy helping people and want to make a difference to their lives, we would very much like to hear from you.


For an informal discussion, please contact Ben Jasper Benjamin.Jasper@brighton-hove.gov.uk


We are recruiting 3 full time (37 hours), and 2 part time (30 hours) permanent, Home Care Support Workers, with experience of autism and challenging behaviour, to work at Beaconsfield Villas.


Basic hourly rate of 14.60 increasing to 15.58 (28,163 - 30,060 full time per annum)

About the role

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At Beaconsfield Villas we provide 24 hours, 7 day a week support for 6 adults who have a learning disability. The service users live in 3 separate flats that creates a homely environment and our dedicated team of staff work hard to ensure that our residents' specific needs (e.g. Autism and Challenging Behaviour) are met in a caring and sensitive manner and skills are developed in a way that promotes their independence.


Our last CQC inspection rated the service as "good" noting that family and carers were very happy with the staff team and the service that is provided to their family member


You will join a large team of committed staff in providing high level support to those living at Beaconsfield Villas. The help you provide will be tailored to each individual's needs and is designed to help them to maintain as much independence as possible.

The work will involve:

supporting with intimate personal care where required keyworking or taking on additional responsibilities enabling individuals to participate in a range of activities within the wider community such as swimming, bowling, shopping etc. help with cooking meals and general household cleaning tasks, laundry etc. assisting with the administration of medication completing care records using various communication tools to help residents express themselves creating and maintaining relationships with family members, carers and friends

About you:

You will need to:

have a caring and flexible approach to your work have compassion, integrity and common sense have good written and number skills be able to work well as part of a team be able to work on your own initiative and think quickly in a difficult situation

You will be required to work a shift pattern including earlies, lates, sleepins and some weekends. Having a full clean driving licence is preferable.

Working for us, we can offer you:

Basic hourly rate of 14.60 increasing to 15.58 (28,163 - 30,060 full time per annum) time and a half for working at weekends, double time for working on a bank holiday and time and a third for working at night (between 8pm and 6 am) the opportunity to volunteer to work extra shifts a career average pension scheme generous holiday regular supervision meetings plus a range of other staff benefits from Staff shop, discounted Freedom Leisure membership

Please read our Apply for a job at the council (brighton-hove.gov.uk) pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you've submitted your application and at interview.


As part of your application, you will need to complete your education and work history and provide answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.


For details of how we can support you during the application process, please read this: Supporting your application (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Additional information

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Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.


For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Company information

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Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.


Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).