Support Worker

Home Group Limited; Whitehaven; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care organization in Whitehaven is seeking a Support Worker to assist customers with complex needs. This role offers £12.60 per hour and great benefits, including a health cash plan and extensive leave. Ideal candidates are passionate about supporting customers, have experience in care, and can work flexibly to meet customer needs. Join a top UK workplace where you can make a real difference!

Benefits

34 days leave including bank holidays

Health cash plan

High street discounts

Career growth opportunities

Support for wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experience in care or supporting others.
• Calm and resilient under pressure.
• Listening to customers to understand needs.

Responsibilities

• Assist customers with daily living tasks.
• Carry out risk assessments and support planning.
• Spend quality time with customers.

Skills

Passion to support customers

Experience of caring for others

Ability to work on own initiative

Flexible, personal approach

Job description

Support Worker

Earn £12.60 per hour (£24,638 per annum) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Permanent, Full time (37.5 hpw) – shift working

Whitehaven

We can’t offer a CoS for this role

Home, a place where you belong

Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? As our Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have complex needs to develop their skills to live more independently in the community. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations.

What you’ll do

• Assist customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.
• Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
• Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
• Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to work together with colleagues too.

Why join us

This is more than a job, it’s a place where you feel valued. You get great training, support from friendly colleagues and a chance to make a real difference every day. Be part of one of the UK’s top 10 Great Places to Work!

You have

• Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail
• Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children
• The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach
• Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!

The practical bits

• Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.
• There will be different shifts such as 7am-3pm, 9am-5pm or 11am-7pm.
• Able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.

Find out more

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