Support Worker

NHS; Northallerton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering care provider as a Live-out Support Worker, supporting a female client with complex needs in Northallerton. This rewarding role involves assisting with personal care, mobility, and daily activities while fostering a trusting relationship. You'll receive full clinical training and support from experienced leadership, ensuring you develop your career in a collaborative environment. With flexible shifts available, this position is perfect for those who are kind, caring, and ready to make a positive impact in someone's life.

Benefits

Full specialist training

Active Awards programme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Support from clinical leadership

Qualifications

• Candidates must have a kind and caring nature with flexibility and reliability.
• A full manual UK driver's licence is required to drive the client's vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Support a client with a spinal cord injury in their own home.
• Assist with personal care, hygiene, and mobility.

Skills

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility

Reliability

Tools

UK driver's licence

Job description

For genuine occupational requirements, we require female candidates for this client. Our client leads an active lifestyle; therefore, a successful applicant will hold a full clean UK driver's licence to drive the client's vehicle. 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?

Main duties of the job

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 Live-out Support Worker to support our brand new female client who lives in Northallerton.

About us

Active Care Group are a pioneering national provider of complex care services, delivering pathways and better outcomes for people. We have a collaborative and holistic approach to care underpinned by proven clinical and therapeutic expertise. We specialise in supporting young people and adults with complex needs to make positive progress and lead happier, more independent lives.

Job responsibilities

Meet the client:

Looking for a care team to support me in my brand new home. I would get on well with someone who is chatty and outgoing, who likes to have a laugh. I like to go out in my mobility car, even if this is for a drive to the coast and an ice cream. I would like a support worker who respects my home and who is willing to build a trusting working relationship.

What you'll be doing:

This role is to support our brand new female client in her own home for night shifts, who has suffered a spinal cord injury. The client requires support with moving and handling, personal care and hygiene, peg feeds, cough assist, and NIV. Full clinical training will be provided.

A double-up team will be supporting at periods throughout the day to assist at key times while the client regains physical strength.

You will be required to drive our client's vehicle. Therefore, you must hold a full UK driver's licence.

When you'll be working:

• We are looking for a regular team to work permanently with our client.
• Monday - Sunday available.
• Full-time or part-time available.

What to look forward to:

• £12.50 per hour.
• Full specialist training.
• 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.

*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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• What you'll have:
• Kind and caring nature.
• Flexibility & reliability; continuity of care is imperative for our clients.
• Full manual UK driver's licence to drive the client's vehicle.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.