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Support Worker

Durham, DH7 8NT
£12.00 per/hr, increasing up to £12.50 per/hr post probation
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About the role

Overview

Durham, DH7 8NT
Full Time
£12.00 per/hr, increasing up to £12.50 per/hr post probation
6 November 2024

We are looking for a confident Support Worker with a passion for delivering outstanding care.

You’ll be working 42 hours a week (12 hour shifts covering days, nights, weekends and bank holidays), making a positive difference to the lives of the people in our care at Cygnet Appletree Hospital. ** Please note you must be able to commit to 36 or 42 hour per week **

Cygnet Appletree, near Durham, is a mental health hospital for women that includes Pippin Ward, a specialist PICU service and Bramley Ward, an acute service for women.

Our person-centred service has been designed with wellness in mind, providing a safe and comfortable environment that promotes efficient rehabilitation and recovery. We are dedicated to understand, stabilise and break the traumatic cycles of relapse that can impact service users’ lives.


Your day-to-day…

  • Offer enhanced care with a flexible learning approach for all the people in our care
  • Provide guidance & encouragement through physical & emotional support
  • Learn about individuals’ specific needs & provide help in the most appropriate way
  • Assist with medical & welfare needs 
  • Report on medical & welfare needs as required 
  • Safeguard
  • Maintain a safe, clean environment for all

Why Cygnet? We’ll offer you…

  • Flexible working with the opportunity for overtime
  • Regular coaching & appraisal
  • Expert supervision & peer support
  • Employee discount savings & “Cycle to Work” scheme

You are…

  • Genuinely driven with a desire to make a real difference in people’s lives
  • An excellent communicator & a good team player
  • Sensitive & intuitive with the energy required to provide a trusting, stimulating & varied environment
  • Passionate about empowering & supporting service user independence

Successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

Cygnet has been providing a national network of high-quality specialist mental health services for more than 30 years. In this role you’ll have the chance to make a real impact on patients, service users & their families.

Benefits & Rewards

NHS Staff Discounts

Cygnet provides its staff with NHS discounts across a range of high street retailers. The discounts can be redeemed by showing your Cygnet ID badge. You can also get further discounts by registering your details with Health Service Discounts and Blue Light Card.

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On-site Benefits

Cygnet provides free meals and free on-site parking for employees at work.

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Cycle To Work Scheme

Cygnet will give you exclusive access to a range of benefits with our Cycle To Work scheme.

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Enhanced Maternity

In addition to statutory pay, Cygnet provides enhanced maternity pay.

Plan your commute

Appletree

Durham
North East
DH7 8NT
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88% of staff enjoy working for Cygnet

At Cygnet, you’ll work in incredible, inspiring teams and enjoy satisfying careers with plenty of opportunities to grow

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90% of staff said access to training has helped them in their role

No matter what your role is, we invest in your learning and development to help you achieve your career aspirations.

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Colleague to colleague endorsements

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Haley Hanson

Therapy Co-coordinator/ Support Worker
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Passion
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Haley has recently joined the therapy team from support worker. Haley is very passion about her job. Patients here at aspen clinic requested therapy animals for a long time. Haley organised a donation day and raised money for us to have quails. She put forward the idea which was approved. Now we have our very own quails! Haley goes above and beyond

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Maria Iqbal

Team Leader
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Maria provided great comfort for one of our residents who really struggles having a blood test. She managed on 2 occasions to successfully support nursing staff to get very important blood tests completed for this resident. Thank you for your hard work comforting this resident Maria.

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Priyanka Bakshi

Counselling Psychologist
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Priyanka deserves to be rewarded for her hard work developing a functional analysis for a complex young person. Her work is helping our team to develop a formulation to understand the young person and support them in the best way. Priyanka has dedicated a lot of her time to this and we are very lucky to have her as a part of our team.

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Leanne Tonks

Nurse
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Leanne is someone who started at Cygnet in Domestic Services and has worked from this position to support, a nursing associate, and completed her nurse training with Cygnet. She is now employed on the same ward where she started and she is excelling in the role. She is confident and competent and she has a can do attitude and gets tasks completed.

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Kristina Robinson

Cleaner
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Kristina goes above and beyond every single day at work, she is incredible at supporting the residents and having the ‘on the spot’ tools and knowledge to diffuse situations and inspire residents to change their mindset. She is great at helping residents to express themselves and to be as independent as possible. She is an asset to the team.

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Felly Loota-Ebola

Support Worker
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Felly has established an incredibly strong relationship with a resident who shows particularly challenging behaviours. Felly worked consistently with this resident whilst he was in the hospital, never once complaining and allowing for this time to be alot easier for the resident as he had someone there that he likes and trusts to help him.

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Khumbalani Moyo

Support Worker
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Khumbalani recently supported a resident to hospital who hasn’t successfully attended a hospital appointment for many years. Through his comforting techniques and communication he managed to safely and calmly support this gentleman to carry out a successful appointment. Well done Khumbalani thank you for your comforting support.

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Andrew Chikaura

Support Worker
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Andrew ensured that a service user who had in the past refused to visit family was taken there, despite this was late in the day Andrew took him to see his family, that brief moment made a lot of difference in the life of the family. The family who where gathered with other extended members where very grateful.

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Juan Mass

Speciality Dr
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Dr Mass has been dedicated to working with and supporting patients with their physical health. Recently, 81% of the patients at Sherwood House have consented to engage with blood tests. This is a huge increase in comparison to previous months and a direct reflection of Dr Mass hard work and dedication.

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Ajibola Peters

Digital Media Technical Instructor
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Flexibility
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We were recently filming a Music 2 Empower video with a patient at Cygnet Bury Hudson and Ajibola came in on his day off to support both the patient and us with the filming. Giving up his free time to do this shows how much it means to Ajibola to showcase the achievements of service users and demonstrates not just flexibility but Passion & Support.

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