Male Support Worker

1st Homecare; Bathgate; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a compassionate Male Support Worker to provide personalized care in Bathgate. This role is crucial for enhancing the quality of life for individuals by helping them achieve meaningful outcomes and fostering community engagement. The successful candidate will support a gentleman with personal care, meal preparation, and community access, ensuring a positive and reliable presence in his life. With a flexible shift pattern and a commitment to person-centred care, this position offers the chance to make a real difference in someone's life. Join a team that values respect, honesty, and responsibility.

Benefits

28-days paid holiday

Accredited training

Employer contributory pension scheme

Health Cash Plan

£10,000 Life cover

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounted goods and services

Cycle to Work Scheme

Financial wellbeing scheme

Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in providing person-centred care and support.
• Ability to assist with meal preparation and personal care.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals in achieving meaningful outcomes.
• Assist with meal preparation and promote healthy diets.
• Facilitate community access and social inclusion.

Skills

Person-centred care

Meal preparation

Community access

Building rapport

Reliability

Education

Enhanced Adult PVG

Job description

Male Support Worker

Bathgate

15.5 hours per week

£12.60 per hour

The Role
Our Support Workers provide a person-centred approach in providing quality support, which makes our service very flexible and adaptable to everyone’s needs.

The role of a Support Worker is integral to the quality of support provision and can be rewarding and inspiring. You will support people to identify and work towards meaningful outcomes and to participate in their community and develop new and maintain existing relationships.

This role will involve supporting a gentleman, offering care and support around food shopping, meal preparation and promoting a healthy well-balanced diet. He will also require support with aspects of personal care, accessing the community and social inclusion. The ideal candidate would be reliable, positive, upbeat and able to build rapport with the gentleman.

You may be asked to work between other services that we provide care and support to across West Lothian.

An enhanced Adult PVG is required for this role.

Shift Pattern:

5 days a week Monday-Friday (usually between the hours of 10:00am-3:00pm)

Mon: 2hrs, Tues: 5hrs, Wed: 2hrs, Thurs: 5hrs and Friday: 1.5hrs.

Please note we would still require a degree of flexibility from candidates as this may be moved around to deliver person-centred care and support to best serve the individual.

Benefits and Rewards

• A minimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Accredited training giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first-rate job
• An employer contributory pension scheme

In addition to the above you also have access to the following great benefits:

• Health Cash Plan (for full/part-time contracted hours)
• £10,000 Life cover
• A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information)
• A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• A financial wellbeing scheme
• Refer a Friend Incentive Bonus (terms and conditions apply)
• Recognition Initiatives

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do: Respect – Honesty – Responsibility – Excellence.

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best.