Casual Care & Support Worker - St Nicholas House

Norse Group; West Dereham; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully funded accredited courses

Career progression

Weekend working enhancements

Blue Light Card

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Norse Care’s St Nicholas House in Dereham is seeking a Casual Care Support Worker to join a friendly, supportive team. The role offers casual shifts across Monday to Sunday with a pay rate of £13.56 per hour, and funded accredited courses to help you progress in your care career.

You will assist with personal care and wellbeing activities, respond to call bells, and help create a safe, engaging environment for service users while upholding dignity and independence.

Qualifications

• We are looking for people who are passionate about supporting others by providing excellent care.
• Casual shifts across Monday to Sunday.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal care and support tasks to promote independence.
• Respond to call bells and emergencies promptly and coordinate with medical staff.
• Support wellbeing events and activities and maintain a safe, engaging environment.

Skills

Passion for supporting others

Job description

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

Casual Care Support Worker – Dereham

£13.56 per hour

Casual shifts working across Monday - Sunday

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 St Nicholas House:

St Nicholas House is our residential care home in Dereham, 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, access to a Blue Light Card, physiotherapy and chiropractortreatment, and more.

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.