Support Worker

Active Care Group; Burton-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading provider of complex care as a Support Worker, where you'll provide essential one-to-one support to a female client in her home. This rewarding role involves assisting with personal care and mobility for a client who has suffered a spinal cord injury. With flexible 12-hour shifts available, you'll be part of a dedicated team that values continuity of care. Enjoy benefits such as accrued holiday pay, full training, and a supportive work environment that encourages your professional growth. If you have a caring nature and the ability to drive, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Accrued holiday pay

Nest Personal Pension account

Full specialist training

Recognition via Active Awards programme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting clients with spinal cord injuries.
• Ability to drive and commute to rural locations.

Responsibilities

• Support a female client in her home for day shifts.
• Assist with personal care, hygiene, and medication.

Skills

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility & reliability

Good communication skills

Experience with spinal cord injury support

Driving with own vehicle

Confidence with dogs

Job description

For genuine occupational requirements, we require female candidates for this client.

Due to our clients' rural location, a successful applicant will need to drive with their own transport.

Are you looking for 12-hour day shifts?

Would you like a rewarding role in which you can support a client one-to-one in their 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 complex care to live independently in their own homes.

We'd like you to join us as a daytime Support Worker to assist our brand new female client who lives in Newborough, Burton-on-Trent.

What You'll Be Doing

This role is to support our female client in her own home for day shifts, who has suffered a spinal cord injury. The client requires support with moving and handling, personal care and hygiene, and medication.

You will need to be able to drive with your own vehicle to commute to the client's rural location and be confident with the client's dog within the home.

When You'll Be Working

• We are looking for a new regular to join the team to work permanently with our client.
• 12-hour day shifts
• 7am - 7pm
• Monday - Sunday available
• Full-time or part-time available

What You'll Have

• Kind and caring nature
• Flexibility & reliability – continuity of care is imperative for our clients
• Good communication skills
• Experience with spinal cord injury support
• Driver with own vehicle
• Confident with dogs

What To Look Forward To

• £12.50 per hour
• Accrued holiday pay
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Full specialist training
• Recognition of outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn up to £1500 by recommending someone you know
• Support and guidance from our qualified clinical and business leadership teams to develop your career with Active Care Group
• Please note: We are recruiting Female Support Workers due to a genuine occupational requirement of the person we support; therefore, this role is exempt from the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9.

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