We have an exciting opportunity for a Waking Night Support Worker to join our team in Mansfield, supporting adults with a learning disability.
This is a 27-hour Floating Night role, working flexibly across both services. The role follows a structured rota of six consecutive night shifts, followed by a period of time off, providing a consistent and balanced working pattern.
What you’ll be doing
As a Waking Night Support Worker, you will play a vital role in ensuring the people we support feel safe, comfortable, and well cared for throughout the night. Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing support with personal care where required
- Carrying out regular wellbeing and safety checks
- Supporting with light household duties such as laundry and cleaning
- Promoting a calm, safe, and reassuring environment overnight
About you
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Compassionate, patient, and committed
- Passionate about supporting people with a learning disability
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- Reliable and flexible in their approach to working nights
This role can be challenging at times, but it is also incredibly rewarding, giving you the opportunity to make a real difference every day.
Additional Information
- An enhanced DBS check is required for this role (paid for by Mencap, T&Cs apply)
JOB ID: 36300
Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated.
Our benefits package offers 24 days of paid holiday (excluding bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest-free loans, and many more exciting offerings.
For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document and below link with all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team
Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives.
We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carer’s. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in.
At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues.
Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.
We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long- term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.
We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.
