Waking Night Support Worker - Mansfield

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)

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 

https://jobs.mencap.org.uk/benefits.aspx  

*T&C's apply based on contract 

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.