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Brighton Recruitment Event for Southdown Court Service
We are holding a free recruitment event at Brighton’s Jubilee Library in the Business and IP centre (BIPC).
Date of event: Wednesday, 5th March 2025, 10am – 4pm
Location: The Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton, BN1 1GE
We’re looking to recruit Support Workers for our state-of-the-art flagship service in East Brighton. We are keen to meet people who are looking for an engagement between 21 – 37 hours.
The salary is £12.95 per hour + our comprehensive benefits package; including a Healthcare Cashback Scheme, an Employee Assistance Programme, and access to a Blue Light Card.
You don’t need qualifications or experience to be a support worker – you need to have a good sense of fun, a consistent approach and be able to stay calm under pressure.
What is the service like?
Southdown Court service is for six adults with learning disabilities, each client will have a purpose-built flat with a small garden. The clients have mainly moved out of long stay hospitals or school environments into the community.
What will happen at the recruitment event?
As little or as much as you like! We’ll be holding a one stop recruitment shop – our team will be there to talk you through the position, service, and benefits. We will be interviewing on the day at the event.
Benefits of joining us
You’ll be joining one of the largest providers of care, support, and housing services in Sussex, which we’re proud to say we’ve been doing for over 50 years! In exchange, we can offer some great benefits such as:
- Salary above the Real Living Wage
- Pension scheme
- Employee Assistance (EAP), Free advice and counselling service
- Access to Blue Light card
- Health Care cash back scheme
- Discounts in high street stores, entertainment, health & fitness
- Interest-free Loans
- Life cover: For staff under the age of 65 years in our pension scheme
- Flexible working
- Access to the Easit Network
- Free access to financial services and advice through Salary Finance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Free Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- Support with Career Progression
- Supportive working environment
- £100 reward for passing your probationary period
If you aren’t able to come along but are still interested in joining the team, take a look at our vacancies here. Alternatively, please get in touch with our recruitment team by emailing: jobs@southdown.org
Why Southdown
Southdown is a psychologically informed organisation where the well-being and happiness of our employees matter. We’re committed to creating a positive and compassionate work environment where employees feel valued, respected and inspired to do their best. In addition, we’re a family-friendly employer that recognises the importance of a work-life balance. If you share our values and want to work for an organisation that helps change lives for the better, we want to hear from you!
We are a Disability Confident Employer and are fully committed to supporting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and welcome applications from all candidates that meet our job specifications. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, do get in contact with us at jobs@southdown.org as we are always happy to discuss (or arrange a discussion we the recruiting manager) to explore if any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.
Please note, we are unable to provide sponsorship to applicants.
What’s it like to be a Southdown Support Worker?
Watch this video to hear from Ellie, a Support Worker at one of our Learning Disability Support Services, about what a day looks like in her role and what she enjoys about it. If you’d like to find out more about what it’s like to be Southdown Support Worker, click here.
Social events at Southdown
We hold several events throughout the year where staff and clients across our Learning Disability Support Services come together to have fun.
Check out this video of our recent 2024 Summer Fiesta, where staff and clients attended the day filled with music, magic, stalls, and competitions.
We also had entertainment, as our Headliner DJ and Youtuber – our fantastic client Ross, played the best tunes!
Selected Stories
"I love my job"
Learning Disability Support Worker, Chris, shares why she chose to work for Southdown.
"He has a good, happy life here"
Jo is one of our clients who lives in a Supported Living service. We met up with Jo and spoke to his Service Manager, Gemma, about his quality of life.
"People with learning disabilities are just people like everybody else"
Meet Newman, a Service Manager at one of our Supported Living Services in Brighton.
Learning Disability Support
We provide specialist accommodation and support for people with learning and physical disabilities. If you are looking for registered care or supported living, please get in touch as we have a number of vacancies available.
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Become a Support Worker
Are you looking for a role that fits in with your commitments and comes with variety and rewarding results, not to mention excellent benefits? Then make the move to Southdown as a Support Worker.
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