Support Worker roles in King's Lynn
Support Worker roles in King's Lynn cover a lot of ground: supported living, mental health services, learning disability support and community teams. Protocol Healthcare Services places people on agency shifts and in permanent posts across all of it.
Working around King's Lynn
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is the hospital local teams work alongside, and the homes and services around Gaywood and South Lynn draw staff from the same pool. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust runs services locally, with Norfolk County Council commissioning the social care alongside them.
Most placements are in Gaywood, North Lynn and South Lynn, with regular work further out at West Lynn, Fairstead and Springwood. Postings run through PE30, PE31 and PE34, including out at South Wootton.
A typical shift
- ✓ Supporting people with daily routines and personal care where needed
- ✓ Encouraging independence, choice and everyday decision making
- ✓ Supporting people to access work, education, activities and their community
- ✓ Positive behaviour support and de-escalation, with training provided
- ✓ Medication prompting and support appropriate to your training
- ✓ Accurate notes and clear communication with the wider team
Shifts and contracts
Days, nights and weekends are all available, full time or part time. Someone covering Fairstead on earlies and Springwood on nights is an ordinary week here. The aim is ongoing work in settings you already know, not a different address every week between Gaywood and North Wootton.
Some people stay on agency indefinitely; others use a few months around South Lynn to find the right permanent home. Both are fine.
What you will need
- ✓Experience in mental health or learning disability support is desirable, not essential
- ✓An enhanced DBS check, which we can arrange
- ✓The right to work in the UK
- ✓Patience, resilience and respect for the people you support
- ✓Good communication skills
How we work with you
You get one consultant who knows your registration, your patch and which Norfolk services you have already worked in. We recruit from our offices in Edgware and Bournemouth and place people nationwide; there is no branch in King's Lynn itself, which we would rather say plainly.
Peterborough, Bury St Edmunds and Norwich are close enough that plenty of our people work across them and King's Lynn both.
Let us know your hours and how far you will travel from Gaywood, and we will do the rest. There are immediate opportunities for suitable candidates. Call 020 8951 4510 or use the contact form.
Support Worker Jobs in King's Lynn, answered
Not always. Experience in mental health or learning disability support is desirable, not essential We provide training, and your consultant will match you to settings around King's Lynn that fit what you have done before.
Day, night and weekend shifts, on full-time and part-time patterns. You set your availability and we work to it. Once you are established we can offer regular ongoing shifts rather than one-offs.
Both. We recruit for temporary and permanent positions, and many people start on agency shifts around King's Lynn before moving into a permanent post once they have found a service that suits them.
Across supported living, mental health services, learning disability services and community settings. In practice that means Gaywood, North Lynn, South Lynn, West Lynn and Fairstead, covering PE30, PE31 and PE34, and out into Norfolk. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is the main hospital in the area.
We have immediate opportunities for suitable candidates. Once your registration, right-to-work and DBS checks are in place, shifts can usually follow quickly. Call 020 8951 4510 or send us your details to get started.
Support Worker Jobs near King's Lynn
Looking for work in King's Lynn?
Register and a consultant will be in touch about shifts around Gaywood, South Lynn and the wider Norfolk area.