Casual Care and Support Worker

Aster Group; Weymouth; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support service provider in Weymouth seeks a compassionate Support Worker to assist vulnerable adults with daily living tasks and maintain their independence. Responsibilities include support with personal care, medication, shopping, and household tasks. Ideal candidates will possess good communication skills and some experience in care. Opportunities for professional development and a focus on colleague wellbeing are offered.

Benefits

Workshops and mental health training

Defined Contribution Pension with life assurance

Volunteering hours available

Savings at cinemas, gyms, and various shops

Qualifications

• Experience in a caring industry is ideal.
• Must pass a DBS check or be on the update service.
• Right to work in the UK must be verified.

Responsibilities

• Assist service users with daily living tasks.
• Support with medication, shopping, and cleaning.
• Help users with personal care including bathing and dressing.

Skills

Good communication skills

Basic literacy and numeracy skills

Compassionate and patient

Job description

At East Boro our Domiciliary Care and Support Team work flexibly with adults to enable them to live in their own home as independently as possible. As a Support Worker you will provide appropriate domiciliary care and support which will allow people to remain independent and live their lives to the full.

Our care and support workers assist our service users with their daily living tasks, such as assisting them with their medication needs, shopping, cleaning, healthy eating, correspondence, cooking, applying for jobs and enjoy all the fun activities, such as going out for day trips and discos!

The service will also cover a wide range of tasks, including :

• Assisting the service users to get up or go to bed.
• Washing, bathing, hair care, denture, and mouth care
• Transfer / Hoisting
• Assisting the user with, dressing and undressing; toileting, including necessary cleaning and safe disposal of waste; assisting the service user with food or drink.
• Preparation; eating and drinking, including associated kitchen cleaning and hygiene.

About us

Specialising in housing and support services for the elderly, adults with learning disabilities and other vulnerable people, we seek to provide our residents with more than just a home. Our customers are our reason for being so we try to involve customers in everything we do. We have provided care and support services since 1960 and currently serve a range of customers with different needs.

About you

You will need :

• Good communication skills
• Basic literacy and numeracy skills
• To be compassionate and patient
• Ideally some experience in a caring industry
• To pass our DBS check or be on the DBS update service
• Verify your right to work in the UK.

Even better if you have previous experience of a working for a personalised care services for adults of with physical, learning, and mental disabilities and providing personal care.

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like :

• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives.

We cannot wait to hear from you! Apply as soon as possible with your most updated CV.

All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.

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