Support Worker

Providing low to medium-level support and personal care needs to clients, you will be working for a Leading care home providing low to medium-level needs and personal care.

This position is key to supporting us to deliver a high-quality service to our customers, enabling them to live life to the full while delivering personal care and support.

Main Duties:

• To promote customers’ dignity, choice, rights and independence
• Listen to customers to ensure you are meeting their needs and assisting them in their daily lives and personal care.
• Build professional relationships to build trust and respect. Report anything you think is unsafe in relation to your work or to a customer.
• Actively be involved in health and safety inspections. Report and record any bad practices to a line manager/senior member.
• Assist customers with their physical and social needs, ensuring all emotional and physical needs are met.
• Provide medication and assist in cleaning customers' homes. Assist customers with things such as shopping, cooking, preparing food and personal care such as washing, bathing, toilet and dressing.
• Ensure customers receive appropriate care/ support plans and keep good quality and accurate records to show where you have been working and what you have been doing.

It is Essential:

• Ability to provide personal care for older people, including assisting people to wash, dress and attend to all personal needs
• Good understanding of health and safety in the workplace and in the home.
• Good spoken English
• Diploma in Health and Social Care (if not already, or equivalent NVQ)
• At least 6 months experience as a care or support worker

In order to proceed we require from you:

• Application form( which we will provide you with after speaking with you)
• Right to work e.g: Passport, ID, NI, Proof of address (X2)
• Be able to provide us with relevant employment Reference details (x2).
• Mandatory Training
• DBS (if applicable)
• And other documents as required

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Temporary contract, Fixed term contract

Part-time hours: 20-36 per week

Day range:

• Every weekend
• Monday to Friday

Shift:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Night shift
• Overnight shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Hamble, Hampshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)