Casual Care & Support Worker - Harker House

Norse Commercial Services Limited; Long Stratton; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

Norse Care at Harker House in Long Stratton is hiring a Care Support Worker. This casual role offers shifts across Monday to Sunday and pays £13.56 per hour.

You will assist with personal care, support service users, promote independence, and work as part of a friendly team. You’ll respond to call bells and coordinate with health professionals as needed.

We value compassion and integrity and provide funded training, DBS checks, and opportunities for progression.

Qualifications

• Experience as a care professional or willingness to work in care.
• Commitment to person-centred care and helping service users maintain independence.
• Willingness to demonstrate core values at interview.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal care and support tasks, enabling service users to maintain independence and dignity.
• Build relationships with colleagues and service users, support wellbeing events and activities.
• Respond to call bells and emergencies promptly, and communicate with health professionals as required.
• Promote a safe and engaging environment within the home.

Job description

Job description

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

Care Support Worker - Long Stratton

£13.56 per hour

Casual contract working shifts across Monday - Sunday

Shift Patterns: 7-12, 7-13.30- 7-20.00, 16.00-21.00.

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 Harker House:

Harker House is our care home at the heart of the Long Stratton community in South 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, access to a Blue Light Card, physiotherapy and chiropractor treatment, and more. For a complete list of what we offer, please click here to 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.

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.