Support Worker
- Recruiter
- CARE PORTAL SOLUTIONS
- Location
- Blackpool
- Salary
- £7.50 - 8.15 per hour
- Posted
- 15 Mar 2018
- Closes
- 12 Apr 2018
- Ref
- SW01
- Contact
- Ellie GD
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
ROLE: COMMUNITY SUPPORT WORKERS / CARE WORKER (DOMICILIARY CARE)SALARY: £7.50 - £8.18 PER HOURHave you ever thought of a career within the care industry as a support worker / care worker or do you have prior experience and you’re looking for a positive change?Based within Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire, this provider has an incredible reputation of care and trust within the industry. Your role will involve driving within an 8 mile radius of Blackpool City Centre, visiting service users in their own home.
In a nutshell, anything you might do yourself in an average day, week or month, you’d be doing as a support worker / care worker alongside someone with additional needs and working with service users who have mild to profound learning difficulties or disabilities to enable as independent a life as possible for them.
This role takes someone with a mature, level head. You have to have the confidence to be a decision-maker, use your initiative and instinct and always have the best interests of the individual you’re supporting in mind.
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Full training is given and the company will pay for you to train from unqualified support worker / care worker up to qualified level. Once you have this qualification, it’s yours for life and will enable you to access the higher pay grade.
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Use of a pool car or milage paid if you're using your own car.
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6-8 hour shift pattern on a 3 week rolling rota so you have time to plan. Some nights are involved. You MUST be able to work a flexible shift pattern.