Rehabilitation Support Worker

Homecare Direct Limited; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in home care is seeking a dedicated Personal Care Assistant to join their team. This rewarding role involves supporting a young man with a brain injury, empowering him to lead an active life through personal care, companionship, and assistance with daily tasks. The ideal candidate will be compassionate, reliable, and proactive, working closely with the client and their family. With a commitment to training and development, you will receive comprehensive support to ensure you can provide the highest standard of care. If you are passionate about making a difference in someone's life, this is the opportunity for you.

Benefits

Company pension scheme

Enhanced bank holiday pay

Ongoing support from care leads

24/7 on-call support

Career development opportunities

Employee benefits including discounts

Long Service Awards

Wellbeing options including confidential support

Qualifications

• Experience in personal care roles with a focus on compassion and support.
• Ability to work in a family environment and manage daily living tasks.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care and companionship to a young man with a brain injury.
• Assist with daily living tasks and engage in social activities.

Skills

Compassionate care

Effective communication

Manual handling

Reliability

Fitness

Education

Training in personal care

Tools

Adapted vehicle driving

Job description

Nottingham, United Kingdom | Posted on 05/02/2025

Location: Bramcote, Nottingham, East Midlands

Hours: 36 hours a week

Pay: £18.00 to £20.00 per hour

About HomeCareDirect

HomeCareDirect is a national service provider and a leader in personalised home care. We are committed to delivering safe, compassionate and person-centred care, while supporting our staff with top-quality training, supervision and development opportunities.

Benefits of being a Personal Care Assistant

• Company pension scheme
  
• Enhanced bank holiday pay
  
• Ongoing support from a dedicated Regional Care Lead and Nurse
  
• 24/7 on-call support
  
• Career development opportunities and personal development plan
  
• Employee benefits including: a Blue Light discount card, Long Service Awards, PA of the Quarter Awards and wellbeing options including 24/7 confidential support provided by Spectrum Life
  

The role of this Personal Care Assistant

Our personal care assistants join our client’s support team, providing reliable, essential care and support in their home. You will be employed by HomeCareDirect on behalf of the client and your focus will be to support them only. This role will be to cover 36 hours a week.

About the Client and Duties

This is a rewarding opportunity to support a young man with a brain injury as he lives independently at home. Your role will be to empower him to lead an active and fulfilling life by providing personal care, companionship and assistance in engaging with a diverse range of multi-disciplinary therapies.

A key aspect of this role involves supporting him in social and sporting activities, helping him build meaningful connections and assisting with daily living tasks such as meal preparation, support with health & fitness, diary management, managing finances.

We are seeking a compassionate and proactive individual to work closely with him, his family and therapists to enhance his quality of life to the fullest.

You should be able to demonstrate core values that align with our clients which demonstrate a willingness to learn, honesty and integrity and living life to the full.

You will ideally have experience working in a similar role and have a good level of physical fitness to support effective manual handling. You must be compassionate, trustworthy and able to work with initiative, within a family home who have dogs.

Requirements

Training and Support:

• We provide comprehensive, paid training to CQC standards covering:
  
• Full induction
  
• Safeguarding Adults
  
• Health & Safety / First Aid / Food Hygiene
  
• Moving & Handling
  
• Personal care / Pressure Area Care / Gastrostomy Care
  
• Medication Administering / MCA & DOLS
  
• Brain Injury Awareness / Dysphagia / Dysarthria
  
• All training must be completed before the start date, with training hours paid at minimum wage
  

Requirements:

• Driver with a full, clean UK driving licence who can drive an adapted vehicle (van sized)
  
• Good level of physical fitness
  
• Happy to work in a family home with dogs
  
• Non-smoker due to working in a family home
  
• Commitment to long-term, person-centred care
  
• You must be reliable, compassionate and committed to respecting confidentiality
  

Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.