Care Support Worker - Days - Mayflower Court

Norse Care; Norwich; On-site; Part time

Job summary

Join a compassionate and inclusive team at an established care home, where you can make a real difference in the lives of service users. As a Care Support Worker, you'll provide essential personal care and support, helping individuals maintain their independence and dignity. You'll work collaboratively with colleagues and engage in meaningful activities that enhance the wellbeing of those you care for. With a focus on professional development, Norse Care offers fully funded training and career progression opportunities, ensuring that your contributions lead to impactful outcomes. If you're passionate about making a difference, this is the role for you!

Benefits

Fully funded accredited courses

Excellent career progression

Weekend working enhancements

Access to award-winning training

Wellbeing support

Enhanced DBS check paid by employer

Qualifications

• Experience in care or willingness to learn and grow in the role.
• Demonstrate core values of care, collaboration, integrity, and improvement.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal care and support tasks for service users.
• Build strong relationships and promote a safe, engaging environment.
• Respond to emergencies and communicate with medical professionals.

Skills

Personal Care

Communication

Teamwork

Empathy

Education

Care Training

Job description

Join our friendly, supportive and inclusive team at Mayflower Court to help us make a real difference in the lives of our service users.

Care Support Worker - Days, Norwich

£12.60 per hour (days) + enhancements

26 average hours per week + opportunity for additional hours

Are you an experienced Care professional or new to the industry? Come and work for Norse Care. We offer fully funded accredited courses, excellent career progression, and job satisfaction from improving people's lives.

Please note that Norse Care are currently unable to provide sponsorship.

A day in the life:

As a Care Support Worker you will assist with personal care and support tasks, enabling our service users to make informed choices, promoting their independence and dignity in line with their person-centred care plan.

Working as part of a team, you will build strong relationships with your colleagues and the service users, participating and supporting with wellbeing events and activities, and helping to promote a safe and engaging environment.

Responding to call bells and emergencies in a timely manner and communicating with other medical professionals and community stakeholders as required.

About you:

We are looking for people who are passionate about supporting others by providing excellent care and who share our core values:

1. We care completely.
2. We collaborate proactively.
3. We act with integrity.
4. We pursue better.
5. We make it happen.

We will be looking for you to demonstrate these at the interview stage!

About Mayflower Court:

Mayflower Court is our 79-bed modern, purpose-built care home; part of the Bowthorpe Care Village providing short-term and full-time care and support, specialising in dementia.

Why work for Norse Care?

We value the contribution that everyone at Norse Care makes to improving people's lives. It's important to us that we give you the confidence and knowledge to perform your role to the best of your ability. We provide access to award-winning training, so our service users get the best care, and you have the tools for fantastic self-development, giving you ownership of your career. We want you to succeed!

We understand that working in care can be rewarding but also challenging, so your wellbeing is important to us. From day one, you will have access to a wide range of benefits alongside a great reward package including weekend working enhancements.

Our core values are at the heart of everything we do. We expect all our colleagues to share our vision and values.

An enhanced DBS check will be required for our successful candidate, payment will be met by the employer.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Due to the high number of applications we receive for our vacancies, if you do not hear from us within two weeks of the date you apply, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.