Job Description
Support Worker (Part-Time)
Location: Worcester, West Midlands
Hours: 14 hours a week
Pay: £11.67 per hour
About HomeCareDirect
HomeCareDirect is a national service provider and a leader in personalised home care. We are committed to delivering safe, compassionate and person-centred care, while supporting our staff with top-quality training, supervision and development opportunities.
Benefits of being a Personal Care Assistant
* Company pension scheme
* Enhanced bank holiday pay
* Ongoing support from a dedicated Regional Care Lead and Nurse
* 24/7 on-call support
* Career development opportunities and personal development plan
* Employee benefits including: a Blue Light discount card, Long Service Awards, PA of the Quarter Awards and wellbeing options including 24/7 confidential support provided by Spectrum Life
The role of this Personal Care Assistant
Our personal care assistants join our client’s support team, providing reliable, essential care and support in their home. You will be employed by HomeCareDirect on behalf of the client and your focus will be to support them only. This role is for 14 hours a week, over 3 days which would include alternate Sundays, 10:30am to 3pm. You should be flexible to cover sickness and holidays when needed.
About the Client and Duties
Our client is a 45 year old gentleman who has memory problems and epilepsy resulting from a brain injury. Although he has retained his sense of humour and love for comedy, sitcoms, music and football, he needs support with prompts and reminders with everyday tasks.
We are looking for a caring, reliable and down to earth support worker who will help to enable him to be more independent and achieve his potential.
This role would include supporting with attending appointments and shopping trips, general help around the home and helping our client to keep his diary upto date so he has all information he needs to remind him of things. You will also help to order and organise his medication so you need to be proactive and have a sense of maturity.
No personal care is involved in this role. Drivers are not essential, however if you do drive, our client has a motability vehicle that you will use.
Requirements
Training and Support:
* We provide comprehensive, paid training to CQC standards covering:
* Full induction
* Safeguarding Adults
* First Aid / Food Hygiene / Medication Care Needs
* Head Injury / Epilepsy Awareness / Mental Health / OCD
* All training must be completed before the start date, with training hours paid at minimum wage
Requirements:
* A good level of education is required
* Good communication skills
* Commitment to long-term, person-centred care
* You must be reliable, compassionate and committed to respecting confidentiality
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Benefits
Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.
We do not provide sponsorship.
Requirements
Good communication skills, driver preferred but not essential