Support Worker - 23 hours Bath, England
Job description
Hours: 23 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Service Area: Residential Services
Department: Adult Social Care, Complex & Specialist Commissioning
This post attracts a welcome payment of 5% of the starting salary for the grade to enable individuals to join our permanent workforce. This is payable upon successful completion of your probationary period and is subject to eligibility criteria.
We are looking for compassionate and dedicated support worker to join our team based at Cleeve Court, Twerton in Bath. You will strive to support individuals living with dementia to enable them to live a fulfilled life in a warm and caring homely environment.
This role is on a part time basis covering 23 hrs per week on a 4-week rota. The Shifts will include weekend and bank holidays. This role involves caring for 46 older adults living with dementia over two floors, Kelston Rise and Lansdown View, as part of a team.
Cleeve Court ethos is “feelings matter most” – what does it feel like to live and work at Cleeve Court. Being around caring, dedicated staff that make resident’s feel at home and become part of the Cleeve Court family.
The ideal candidate should be a good team player, have good communication skills and be able to develop appropriate and professional relationships with service users and carers, which value them as individuals, including establishing and maintaining effective communication.
You should also be able to promote and maintain person-centred service and operate safely appropriate equipment with training.
We provide care to the standard we expect for ourselves and our families. We offer a working environment where high quality care and compassion are respected and rewarded.
Previous comprehensive experience of working in care would be desirable, but a commitment to deliver quality care is essential. We like to ensure that we encourage people to be empowered in a supportive environment.
This is a challenging but rewarding role. If you believe that you can make a real and positive difference to the lives of our residents, we would love to hear from you.
Interested to find out more?
If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Lisa Brain on 07817 133212 or email [email protected]. #proudtocarebathnes
Please be aware, Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
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Your main place of work will be Cleeve Court, Bath.
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Please use the online application facility.
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Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose – to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be Bold, Empowered, Supportive and Transparent.
Please explain in your application how you could incorporate these values into the role you are applying for.
Whilst Covid-19 vaccination is not a mandatory requirement to work in Care Homes or wider Health and Social Care settings, it is strongly encouraged that individuals in this role are vaccinated as a matter of professional responsibility.
We are unable to sponsor candidates for this role under the Home Office Tier 2 points-based system (skilled worker route), therefore you must be able to obtain and provide your own right to work in the UK’. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable. Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to bring your right to work documents with you to your interview so they can be copied and verified at that stage.
As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
Safeguarding Statement:
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.
As this post involves working within one of these groups, we will require a Disclosure & Barring Service check and/or subscription to the DBS online service. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.
Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.
