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Role Description

Female Support Worker – Make Every Day Matter!

Location:

Seaford, East Sussex

Salary:

£13.09 per hour (£25,525.50 per annum) plus benefits.

Hours:

37.5 per week, guaranteed – stability you can count on. Sleep-ins are compulsory in for this role.

Driving Licence:

Manual UK licence required

Visa Sponsorships:

Not available

What’s In It For You?

  • Guaranteed hours – because your time is valuable
  • Paid training & career development – grow with us
  • Supportive team vibes – we’ve got your back
  • Stream (formally Wagestream) – access your earnings instantly, stay in control

What You’ll Need

  • Strong English communication skills (spoken & written)
  • Previous experience in a care/support setting
  • A valid manual UK driving licence
  • The legal right to live and work in the UK 

Support Worker – Make a Real Difference Every Day 

Are you a bubbly, kind‑hearted communicator with a great sense of humour? Do you love storytelling, Disney princesses, Peppa Pig, and creating moments of genuine connection? If so, this could be a truly rewarding role for you.

We’re looking for a dedicated Female Support Worker to support a 21‑year‑old young lady, supported by SeeAbility, to live life with confidence, comfort and joy.

About the person you will support

A wonderful young woman with a big personality and a love for:

  • Storytelling and imagination
  • Disney princesses
  • Peppa Pig and In the Night Garden
  • Laughing, connecting and feeling safe with people she trusts

Who has:

  • A learning disability
  • Epilepsy
  • Visual impairment
  • Mobility needs
  • Some behaviours that can be challenging, which require patience, reassurance and understanding

With the right support, she thrives, and that’s where you come in.

About the Role

This is a 1:1 support role with an element of 2:1 2.5 hours per day, where communication and emotional intelligence are just as important as practical skills.

You’ll support her to:

  • Feel safe, reassured and understood
  • Express herself through communication, stories and play
  • Stay engaged in daily activities and routines
  • Navigate moments of anxiety or challenge with calm, confidence and care

You will work alongside a supportive team and receive guidance and training from SeeAbility, ensuring you feel confident and well‑supported.

Who We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who is:

  • Excellent at communicating – verbally, emotionally and intuitively
  • Bubbly, confident and warm, with an infectious positive energy
  • Naturally nurturing, affectionate and kind, while maintaining clear professional boundaries
  • Calm, reassuring and able to prompt or support when appropriate
  • Patient, resilient and emotionally switched‑on

Experience in support or care is helpful, but the right values and attitude matter most. We’re especially keen to hear from people who genuinely enjoy building meaningful relationships.

Why This Role Is Special

This isn’t just a job, it’s a chance to be someone’s trusted supporter, to bring joy, reassurance and stability, and to help a young woman live life in a way that feels meaningful to her.

If you’re compassionate, confident and ready for a role that truly matters, we’d love to hear from you.

 For further details about Applewood and the Support Worker job profile, please click the links provided below:
Read more about Applewood
www.seeability.org/supportworker
 
Ready to Apply?

If you’re looking for a role where you don’t just work, you thrive, hit that apply button and let’s make a difference together.

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Our Benefits

Why work for us?

At SeeAbility, we value your growth and well-being just as much as the support you provide, we can offer you:

  • Recognition & Rewards: From excellence awards to long service recognition, your hard work won’t go unnoticed.
  • Work-Life Balance: Enjoy up to 36 days of holiday with long service, flexible working options, and time off for life events.
  • Financial Benefits: Discounts, cashback, pension schemes, and more, to help your money go further.
  • Wellbeing Support: Access to a 24/7 employee assistance program, life assurance and sick pay.
  • Refer a Friend: Receive £600 (Support Workers to Senior Support Worker only)
About us
Registered as The Royal School for the Blind, SeeAbility is one of the oldest disability charities in the UK. This year we are celebrating our 225th anniversary, having pioneered specialist support across multiple generations since 1799!
We specialise in supporting people who have learning disabilities, autism, complex needs, who may also have sight loss. Our support ranges from providing person-centred support across our many supported-living and residential care provisions. Furthermore, we provide specialist eye-care services to children and adults alike and assists people with a disability to find paid employment for the very first time.
SeeAbility provides the resources and expertise that make this possible, we support people to live ambitious lives and achieve things they never thought possible.

Safeguarding and Promoting Welfare

SeeAbility is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. We expect all staff to uphold this commitment and have a strong understanding of their roles and responsibilities in safeguarding. 

Safer Recruitment

As part of our safer recruitment procedures, we require the following checks for all successful applicants:

  • A criminal background check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (where appropriate).
  • Documentary evidence to confirm your identity, current address, and the right to work in the UK.
  • Health Declaration to ensure that you are medically suitable for the role you have been offered. 
  • References will be obtained to ensure satisfactory evidence of conduct in current or previous employment concerned with the provision of services relating to (a) health or social care, or (b) children or vulnerable adults. 

These checks will be carried out and completed prior offering a date to start employment at SeeAbility’ s expense.

Diversity

SeeAbility is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all identities, including those from underrepresented groups and those who have a disability or neurodivergent condition. We are please to confirm that we are a Disability Confident employer.

We believe a diverse workforce drives innovation, creativity, and success. Everyone’s unique experiences and views are appreciated, and their opinion valued. We are happy to offer any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or the role itself to ensure a fair and equitable experience for all candidates.

In exceptional circumstances, the exempt from the Equality Act 2010 (Schedule 9, Part 1) which provides for the application of a genuine occupational requirement.