Care Support Worker - Woodlands

Norse Care; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a friendly and inclusive team at a residential care home dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of service users. As a Care Support Worker, you will assist with personal care, promote independence, and build strong relationships within a supportive environment. This role offers the opportunity for career progression through fully funded training and a rewarding experience as you help improve the quality of life for residents, especially those with dementia. If you are passionate about care and looking for a fulfilling role, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Fully funded accredited courses

Excellent career progression

Weekend working enhancements

Access to award-winning training

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience in care or willingness to learn and adapt.
• Passion for supporting others and providing excellent care.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal care and support tasks for service users.
• Build relationships and support wellbeing events and activities.
• Respond to emergencies and communicate with medical professionals.

Skills

Personal Care

Communication

Teamwork

Dementia Care

Education

Care Training

Accredited Courses

Job description

Join our friendly, supportive and inclusive team at Woodlands 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

Temporary Contract - 3 months

23.63 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:

• We care completely.
• We collaborate proactively.
• We act with integrity.
• We pursue better.
• We make it happen.

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

About Woodlands:

Woodlands is our 39-bed residential care home, 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. For a complete list of what we offer, please visit our website.

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.

Please for details of our DBS policy relating to the recruitment of ex-offenders.

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.