Female Support Worker

Dimensions; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Dimensions as a Female Support Worker in Bury St Edmunds. In this role, you will provide vital support to a young woman, aiding in personal care, medication, and social activities. We offer comprehensive training and a generous benefits package while fostering a supportive environment. This position is ideal for someone who can connect empathetically, has a warm personality, and enjoys interacting with diverse communities.

Benefits

Award-winning training

Genuine career progression opportunities

Supportive environment

Generous benefits package

Qualifications

• Confident and outgoing personality.
• Ability to swim confidently.
• Willingness to undergo specialist training.

Responsibilities

• Prompting and supporting personal care.
• Preparing meals safely.
• Supporting medication administration.
• Accompanying the individual to hobbies and appointments.
• Building a trusting relationship using visual aids.

Job description

Support Worker Position Available: Join Our Team!

• Female Support Worker
• Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (IP33)
• Full time - 37.5 hours per week.
• 8am-8pm/ 10am-5pm/ Alternate weekends.
• £13.54 per hour

Are you confident and outgoing? At Dimensions, we’re looking for female support workers who aren’t afraid to get stuck in and have fun, while providing life-changing support. This is an ideal role for someone young at heart, with a warm personality and a natural ability to connect with others.

You’ll be supporting a young woman in her 20s, who lives independently in her own flat. She’s an active person who loves to get out and about whether it’s swimming, bowling, trampolining, or spending time at the beach. You’ll need to be able to swim confidently, as it’s one of her favourite hobbies. When she’s at home, she enjoys arts and crafts, watching movies, listening to music, and singing along to nursery rhymes.

This young woman has epilepsy and receives emergency medication when necessary – full specialist training will be provided. She can also experience behaviours of distress; you’ll receive comprehensive Positive Behaviour Support training to help you manage these moments with confidence and compassion. While she doesn’t always use words to communicate, she uses other ways to express herself and understands much of what’s said to her, you’ll use visual aids to build a trusting relationship with her.

Day-to-day, your role will include prompting and supporting her personal care, prepare meals safely, support medication administration (including her epilepsy medication), and accompany her out. Being a confident driver is essential, as you’ll drive the person, we support vehicle to hobbies and appointments.

At Dimensions, we pride ourselves on being a people-first, not-for-profit organisation. Our teams aren’t just employees; they’re valued individuals who help shape our homes. We offer award-winning training, genuine career progression opportunities, and a supportive environment where your voice is heard and respected. You’ll also benefit from permanent shifts, a generous benefits package, and the security of working with one of the UK’s most trusted providers of autism and learning disability support.

Why Work with Dimensions UK?

At Dimensions, we pride ourselves on being a people-first, not-for-profit organisation. Our teams aren’t just employees; they’re valued individuals who help shape our homes. We offer award-winning training, genuine career progression opportunities, and a supportive environment where your voice is heard and respected. You’ll also benefit from permanent shifts, a generous benefits package, and the security of working with one of the UK’s most trusted providers of autism and learning disability support.

Apply now.

• An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.
• Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010. In this context, "gender" refers to the sex legally assigned to an individual."
• We welcome applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK and value a diverse workforce.
• As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. We’re committed to making reasonable adjustments and can support you with your application—just contact our Resourcing Consultant Team on 0300 303 9150.
• We also offer British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all recruitment communications.