Support Worker

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

Job summary

Join a leading provider of complex care as a Support Worker, where you will provide essential support to a lovely client in her home. This role offers the chance to make a real difference in someone's life, assisting with personal care and clinical needs while enjoying flexible shifts. The company provides comprehensive training and ongoing support, ensuring you feel confident in your role. With a focus on teamwork and kindness, this is an opportunity to grow your career in a rewarding environment, all while being part of a compassionate team dedicated to improving lives.

Benefits

Accrued holiday pay

Flexible zero hours contract

Nest Personal Pension account

Active Awards programme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• No previous experience required as full training will be provided.
• Essential to have a driver's license due to the client's location.

Responsibilities

• Support a female client with spinal cord injury and complex health needs.
• Assist with personal care, medication, and managing clinical equipment.

Skills

Kind and caring nature

Flexibility

Reliability

Good communication skills

Job description

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

Due to the rural location you will need to drive with access to your own transport.

Are you looking for a role for Day & Night shifts?

Would you love a rewarding role, supporting our client with complex health needs in her 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 client's home based in Redditch.

Meet the client:

Our client is a lovely friendly lady, who lives in a quiet area in Redditch with her son and her cat. She is a spinal cord injury client needing support with Tracheostomy, ventilator, personal care with manual handling using a hoist and sliding sheets. She loves gardening and values transparency and respect from her support workers and to each other. The ideal candidate will mirror her views of the importance of teamwork and kindness.

When you'll be working:

• Fully flexible for Day Shifts & Night Shifts
• 8am - 8pm & 8pm - 8am
• Full time or Part Time available

What you'll be doing:

This role is to support our female client with a spinal cord injury and complex health needs in her own home. This will involve supporting with personal care, medication, moving and handling and managing clinical equipment. No previous experience required as full training, shadow shifts and ongoing support will be provided.

Due to the location of the client's home, a driver is essential for this role.

What you'll have:

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

What to look forward to:

• Starting at £12.25 per hour with the potential of an increase after probation
• 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
• 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

Active Care Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer. However, due to the nature of the position, there is a Genuine Occupational Requirement to recruit female 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.