Support Worker

Active Care Group; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Support Worker, where you'll make a meaningful impact on the life of a client with a brain injury. This rewarding role involves providing essential support in personal care, medication management, and mobility assistance. With comprehensive training and ongoing development opportunities, you will be equipped to foster effective communication and help your client achieve their goals. Enjoy a flexible working environment with a variety of shifts and the chance to grow your career in a supportive setting. If you have a kind heart and a passion for helping others, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Full specialist training

Accrued holiday pay

Flexible zero hours contract

Nest Personal Pension account

Active Awards programme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Ongoing support from Care Manager

Access to Active Learning Hub

Qualifications

• Essential to have a valid UK driving license for community outings.
• Full training and ongoing support provided for skill development.

Responsibilities

• Support a male client with an acquired brain injury in personal care and medication.
• Learn and apply mobility techniques for wheelchair users.

Skills

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility

Reliability

Good communication skills

Education

No previous experience required

Tools

Mobility techniques training

Driving license

Job description

Are you looking for a full time role, for 12 hour shifts?

Would you love a rewarding role, supporting our client who has a brain 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 adults with spinal cord injury, acquired brain injury and complex health needs to live in their own homes.

We'd like you to join us as a Support Worker at our to support our male client with an acquired brain injury in their own home based in Lanner, Cornwall. This will involve supporting with personal care, medication and moving and handling.

About the role:

The successful candidate will play a vital role in understanding and supporting our client's journey with brain injury. This involves learning about his goals, addressing challenges, and fostering effective communication to meet his specific needs.

A valid UK driving license is essential for driving his car during community outings.

Given that our client is a wheelchair user, you will learn mobility techniques through training provided by experienced team members, with continuous training for ongoing skill development.

No previous experience required as full training, shadow shifts and ongoing support will be provided.

When you'll be working:

• Day and night shifts available
• 8am - 8pm / 8pm - 8am
• Full time and Part time available

What you'll have:

• Kind and caring nature
• Flexibility & reliability
• Good communication skills

What to look forward to:

• Up to 13.50 per hour (depending on experience)
• Full specialist training, shadow shifts, and ongoing support from the Care Manager provided
• Accrued holiday pay
• Regular consistent work with rolling rotas
• Flexible zero hours contract
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e-learning and face-to-face training and development opportunities
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to 1,500 by 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.