Community Support Worker

Prestige Nursing & Care; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in home care services seeks dedicated Support Workers to deliver personalized care to clients. You will build meaningful relationships while assisting with daily living activities, ensuring clients maintain their dignity and quality of life. The position offers flexible shifts, competitive pay, and a supportive working environment.

Benefits

Paid training and shadow shifts

Variety of shifts to suit lifestyle

Blue light card

Free DBS check

Enhanced maternity/paternity schemes

Professional development support

Holiday pay

Employee Assistance line

Qualifications

• Experience in care or support work preferred.
• Good professional and personal references required.
• Driver’s licence and use of own car necessary.

Responsibilities

• Helping with meal and drink preparation.
• Assisting with activities of daily living and personal care.
• Maintaining and updating care plans.

Skills

Communication

Relationship Building

Empathy

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Weekly Pay – From £12.00 Weekdays, £12.36 Weekends, £18.00 Bank Holidays p/hour

Who will you be helping to make life better for?

Prestige Nursing & Care Peterborough are seeking dedicated and passionate Support Workers to join our care and support team. You will work delivering person-centred, specialised care to your clients in their own homes on a one-to-one basis. This will enable you to maintain a clinical and supportive overview of your client.

We are looking for Support Workers who can build positive relationships with a range of clients and their families, as we understand the importance of our role in their lives.

People are at the very heart of Prestige, and we aim to make life better for them. As a Care Assistant, you’ll join us in our continued efforts to improve the lives of our clients.

Prestige Nursing & Care has provided home care for over 75 years with 30 local offices across England and Scotland. We care for clients in their own homes and also collaborate with local care homes, nursing homes, and the NHS.

Being employed as a Carer by us means:

• You will be paid the National Minimum Wage for all attended training sessions and shadow shifts.
• A variety of shifts to suit your lifestyle.
• Work directly with our clients, no agency work.
• Blue light card.
• Free DBS check.
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity and Adoption schemes.
• Continued professional development to support your career.
• Holiday pay.
• Refer a friend via our Care Friends incentive App—T&C’s apply.
• Employee Assistance line—available 24/7 and fully confidential.
• Support from your local branch team and out-of-hours support.

Your role will include:

• Helping with meal and drink preparation.
• Assisting with activities of daily living, domestic duties, and personal care.
• Maintaining and updating reports such as care plans.
• A driver’s licence and use of your own car required.
• Good professional and personal references.

In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced DBS/PVG, Right to Work, Reference, and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines and safer recruitment best practices.

You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC.

While we aim to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these checks, timelines may be extended. All clients are entitled to safe, fair, and balanced care. Prestige Nursing & Care promotes Equal Opportunities and challenges discrimination based on race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, or any perceived difference.

We are unable to sponsor overseas candidates. Applicants must have proof of right to work in the UK. If you have lived outside the UK for more than a year in the last 5 years, an overseas police check dated within the last 3 months is required.