Live In Support Worker

Active Care Group Recruitment; York; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider seeks a Live In Support Worker in Newcastle upon Tyne to assist a client with a spinal cord injury. The role involves personal care, driving, and engaging in activities. Candidates should have a caring nature, strong communication skills, and a valid UK driving license.

Benefits

Accrued holiday pay

Flexible zero hours contract

Nest Personal Pension account

Refer a Friend Scheme

Recognition for outstanding behaviours

Qualifications

• Must hold a full clean UK drivers’ license.
• Experience working with spinal cord injury preferred.
• Willingness to learn and support client’s clinical needs.

Responsibilities

• Support a male client with a spinal cord injury in his home.
• Assist with personal care, moving, domestic tasks, and social activities.
• Drive the client to outings and engage in shared activities.

Skills

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility

Reliability

Good communication skills

Job description

Our client leads an active lifestyle, therefore a successful applicant will hold a full clean UK drivers’ licence to Drive the clients vehicle.

Would you like to do live in care, staying within your local county of Tyne and Wear?

Would you like a rewarding role in which you can support a client with a spinal cord injury in his own home?

Come and join one of the UK's largest providers of complex care.

Within the Care in the Home division, we support clients with spinal cord injury to live independently in their own homes.

We'd like you to join us as a Live In Support Worker in the Newcastle upon Tyne area.

Meet the client:

I enjoy gardening, especially growing vegetables, house plants and bonsai trees. I like watching sports and films and going out for meals. I like to go target shooting with an air rifle, I also like fishing. It would be great if you could drive so we can go out and do these things together. My goal is to go on holiday again, I have been to some great destinations, including America and Japan. I would like someone to take the time getting to know me and having conversation. I have a really dry sense of humour and enjoy a laugh. I would prefer a candidate to have some experience working with spinal injury, someone who is willing to learn and take the time to support me with my clinical needs.

What you'll be doing:

• This role is to support our male client with a spinal cord injury within his own home
• You will move into the client’s home and support him with personal care (including washing, dressing and toileting), moving and handling, domestic tasks and social activities

When you'll be working:

• Regular assignments with this client
• Assignment length 2 weeks at a time

What you'll have:

• Kind and caring nature
• Flexibility & reliability – continuity of care is imperative for our clients
• Good communication skills
• Our client requires support with driving, therefore you must hold a full UK drivers licence

What to look forward to:

• £150 - £162 per day (depending on UK experience and qualifications)
• Accrued holiday pay
• Flexible zero hours contract
• A Nest Personal Pensionaccount
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability confident employer.

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