Care Support Worker - Woodlands - Casual

Norse Care; King's Lynn; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated and compassionate team at a residential care home where your role as a Care Support Worker will make a significant impact on the lives of service users. This position offers a rewarding experience, allowing you to provide essential personal care and support while promoting independence and dignity. You'll work collaboratively with colleagues, participate in wellbeing activities, and engage with the community. With a focus on training and development, this role not only enhances the lives of those you care for but also supports your professional growth in a nurturing environment. Embrace the opportunity to make a difference in a fulfilling career in care.

Benefits

Fully funded accredited courses

Excellent career progression

Weekend working enhancements

Access to award-winning training

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Passion for supporting others and providing excellent care.
• Ability to communicate effectively with service users and medical professionals.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Personal Care

Communication

Teamwork

Dementia Care

Education

Care Qualification

Tools

Care Plans

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, Kings Lynn £12.60 per hour (days) + enhancements Casual

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.

About Woodlands:

Woodlands is our residential care home in the village of South Wootton, near King's Lynn in West Norfolk. The home provides short-term and full-time care and support, including specialist care and support for people living with 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.

We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.