Support Worker

Cartrefi Cymru; Wales; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A community-focused support organization in Wales seeks a FEMALE Support Worker in Holyhead to empower individuals with learning disabilities in making everyday choices and enhancing their well-being. Responsibilities include supporting personal care, engaging in structured activities, and assisting with daily responsibilities. This role offers a competitive hourly wage and a variety of benefits, emphasizing person-centered support.

Benefits

Competitive salary of £12.74 per hour

25 days annual leave

Health and Wellbeing programme

Company pension

Qualifications

• Able to support intimate personal care with respect and dignity.
• Good written skills to record events meaningfully.
• Full driving license is required for transport.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals in making everyday choices.
• Encourage participation in structured activities.
• Help meet responsibilities like paying bills.

Skills

Patience and empathy

Strong communication skills

Teamwork skills

Welsh language skills

Job description

As a FEMALE Support Worker in Holyhead, you'll help make the everyday remarkable for the people we support. We welcome the right candidates to be working across two or three services as required, predominantly linked to a specific service within the cul de sac. You could be either supporting 1-2-1, or providing shared care to 2, 3, or 4 people.

In this role, you'll actively support individuals in making their own choices and set their own goals - whether it's everyday decisions like what to wear, eat, or do, or something bigger such as where to live, how to manage their finances, or where to go on holiday.

As a trusted Support Worker, you'll empower people to follow through on these choices, including taking part in structured activities that build confidence and develop new skills. You'll also offer practical support to help them meet responsibilities like paying bills, maintaining their homes, being good neighbours, and staying connected with friends and family.

Your goal is to make everyday remarkable through enhancing well-being and focusing on the small, meaningful moments that bring joy and purpose. By offering this kind of person-centred support every day, this truly is a fun and rewarding role for the right person.

To be successful in this role, you should:

• have patience and empathy
• can support a person with their intimate personal care with respect and dignity
• have strong communication and teamwork skills
• are able to speak on behalf of others as well as to a range of professional people
• have good written skills and the ability to record events with empathy and meaning
• have a full driving licence - essential for transporting individuals to appointments and activities
• have Welsh language skills (preferred) to be able to communicate with Welsh-speaking people we support

Our Benefits include:

• Hours: part-time and full-time hours, based on people's needs, day support hours, evening work, sleeping in duties, weekends, and bank holidays
• Salary: £12.74 per hour and our sleep-in shifts at £60 per night, with travel expenses paid at 45p per mile
• Contract: Permanent, with excellent training and development opportunities to achieve qualifications
• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, with the option to buy and sell leave
• Benevolent Fund, confidential financial wellbeing resource available to our colleagues
• Health and Wellbeing programme - 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Refer a Friend - Referral Programme
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Benefits and discount platform
• Eligibility for Blue Light discount card

About Us

Our mission is to build a better future by focusing on people with learning disabilities and their families. We strive to be a great support provider for the individuals and families that we support, our employees, our partners, and funders, and the communities in which we work. We're a Cooperative, which means putting people at the heart of our decision making and support.

Our Values

We've made a promise to the people we support, setting out our commitments to them and how they can expect to be supported. Our values include:

• Honesty
• Trust
• Kindness
• Respect
• Wellbeing

Due to the personal care needs of the people we support, this role is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1. Section 7(2)(e) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, and is therefore open to female applicants only.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates. We are committed to ensuring that all employees are treated fairly and with respect, regardless of their sex, marital status, race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion.