Location: Gloucester
Hours: 10:00pm – 7:00am
Pay: £13.00 per hour weekdays | £13.50 per hour weekends
Job Type: Full-time / Part-time
Service: Adult Supported Living
Company: New Venture Care Ltd
Waking Night Support Worker
New Venture Care Ltd is recruiting a reliable, confident and proactive Waking Night Support Worker to join our supported living service in Gloucester.
This is an active waking-night position from 10:00pm to 7:00am. You will remain awake and available throughout the shift, ensuring the people we support are safe, comfortable and appropriately supported overnight.
We are looking for someone who can work independently, use their initiative and maintain high standards throughout the night.
Your responsibilities
As a Waking Night Support Worker, you will:
- Remain awake and alert throughout the full night shift
- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of residents throughout the night
- Complete scheduled welfare and safety checks
- Respond promptly when residents require support
- Provide emotional reassurance and practical support where needed
- Support with personal care where required
- Administer or support with medication in line with care plans and procedures
- Respond appropriately to incidents, emergencies or changes in presentation
- Follow individual care plans and risk assessments
- Maintain accurate and detailed overnight care records
- Complete appropriate household and cleaning duties during quieter periods
- Ensure communal areas are clean, safe and ready for the following day
- Maintain appropriate professional boundaries
- Complete a thorough handover for the incoming day team
- Escalate safeguarding, health or operational concerns appropriately
What we're looking for
We want someone who is:
- Reliable and punctual
- Comfortable working independently overnight
- Calm and confident when dealing with unexpected situations
- Observant and able to recognise changes in behaviour or wellbeing
- Compassionate, respectful and person-centred
- Able to maintain professional boundaries
- Confident completing electronic and written care documentation
- Able to follow care plans, risk assessments and safeguarding procedures
- Comfortable undertaking household duties as part of the night shift
- Able to work weekends as part of a rota
- Committed to promoting dignity, choice and independence
Previous experience in supported living, mental health, learning disabilities, autism, complex needs or adult social care is desirable.
Applicants with previous waking-night experience will be particularly welcomed.
Shift pattern
Shifts are:
10:00pm – 7:00am
This is a waking-night shift, meaning you must remain awake throughout your working hours.
Both weekday and weekend availability may be required depending on the rota.
What we offer
- £13.00 per hour Monday–Friday
- £13.50 per hour weekends
- Consistent night-shift pattern
- Full induction and training
- Ongoing supervision and management support
- Opportunities for additional shifts
- Career development opportunities within New Venture Care
- Supportive and professional working environment
Join New Venture Care
We're looking for someone we can trust to maintain the same high standard of care overnight that we expect throughout the day.
If you are dependable, compassionate, observant and confident working independently, we'd like to hear from you.
Apply today with your CV and tell us about your experience and availability for waking-night work.
Successful applicants will be subject to appropriate pre-employment checks, including references, right-to-work verification and an Enhanced DBS check where applicable.
New Venture Care Ltd is committed to safeguarding, equality, diversity and delivering high-quality person-centred support.
Pay: From £13.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Paid training
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Gloucester GL1 4EH: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Application question(s):
- Are you available to work weekends and a flexible rota?
- How many hours per week are you ideally looking for?
- Do you have the legal right to work in the UK? Please confirm your current right-to-work status.
Experience:
- Support work: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (preferred)
Location:
- Gloucester GL1 4EH (preferred)
Work Location: In person
