Support Worker

Active Care Group; Crewe; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider seeks a Support Worker to assist a male client with a spinal cord injury in Crewe. The role involves personal care, driving, and supporting the client in daily activities. Ideal candidates will have a caring nature and a full UK driver's license, with flexible working hours available.

Benefits

Accrued holiday pay

Flexible zero hours contract

Nest Personal Pension account

Active Awards programme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Must hold a full UK driver's license.
• Experience in personal care and clinical skills preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the male client with personal care and clinical skills.
• Drive the client's vehicle to transport him to university.
• Assist with domestic duties including cooking.

Skills

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility

Reliability

Good communication skills

Job description

For genuine occupational requirements we require male candidates for this client.

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

Are you looking for a role for 12 hour day shifts?

Are you looking to enhance your skills and progress into complex care?

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 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 clients home based in Crewe.

Meet the client:

Our male client has suffered a spinal cord injury, lives in his own bungalow and his family regularly visit him. He is easy-going and has a good sense of humour. He has his own vehicle that his support workers use to drive him to his university studies twice a week and to get out and about into the community.

When you'll be working:

• Day Shifts Available
• 8am-8pm
• Part Time or Full Time available
• 24, 36 hours a week available

What you'll be doing:

This role is to support our male client who has a spinal cord injury. This will involve supporting with personal care, clinical skills of cough assist and oral suctioning, moving and handling, management of medication, driving the clients vehicle and domestic duties including supporting with cooking.

You will be required to drive our client's vehicle to take him between his home and university. Therefore you must hold a full UK drivers licence.

What you'll have:

• Kind and caring nature
• Flexibility & reliability
• Good communication skills
• Full UK drivers Licence to drive the clients vehicle

What to look forward to:

• £12.25 per hour
• Accrued holiday pay
• Flexible zero hours contract
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 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

Active Care Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer. However due to the nature of the position there is a Genuine Occupational Requirement to recruit male Personal Healthcare Assistants.

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.