Support Worker: Empower Others, Flexible Shifts

Cartrefi Cymru; Brecon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A community support organization in Brecon is looking for a Support Worker. The role involves assisting individuals with daily tasks, delivering activities, and offering support for personal goals. No prior experience is needed as full training will be provided. The ideal candidate should possess strong communication skills and have a full driving license. This position offers flexible hours, competitive pay, and numerous benefits.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

25 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing programme

Company pension

Cycle-to-work scheme

Blue Light discount card

Qualifications

• No experience required – full training provided.
• Full driving licence essential for transporting clients.
• Own vehicle and willingness to provide business insurance.

Responsibilities

• Help people achieve their personal goals and daily tasks.
• Deliver structured activities that build confidence and new skills.
• Assist with responsibilities such as paying bills and maintaining homes.

Skills

Patience

Empathy

Strong communication

Teamwork skills

Good written skills

Job description

As a Support Worker in Brecon, you’ll help make the everyday remarkable for the people we support. We are dedicated to supporting those with learning disabilities to live a fulfilled and enriched life in the community, as a Support Worker, you can play a vital role in this.

Role:Support Worker

Location: Brecon and Crickhowell

Hours: We have both part time (minimum 20 hours per week) and full time hours (maximum 40 hours per week) Your shift pattern will include weekends and sleep-ins.

Salary: £12.74 per hour and our sleep-in shifts at £60 per night and our travel expenses is paid 45p per mile


What you’ll be doing:

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 makeeveryday remarkablethrough 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.

No experience required as full training is provided. We’d love to hear from you if you:

- 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 afull driving licence - essentialfor transporting individuals to appointments and activities
- have access to your own car and happy to use this for transporting people we support to and from activities as well as obtaining business insurance for your vehicle for which we pay 45p per mile to cover this

Our Benefits

- Training and development opportunities
- 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service with the option to buy and sell leave
- Health and Wellbeing programme - 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Benefits and discount platform
- 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

Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early so we would encourage you to apply early for this position.