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Female Relief Support Worker

Job details
Posting date: 16 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £12.00ph plus accrued holiday credit
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 30 April 2024
Location: Bromley, South East London
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Creative Support
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 72544

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Summary

Are you looking for a diverse role that is fun, stimulating and rewarding every day?
Creative Support is looking for a warm and caring Relief Extra Care Support Worker to join our Extra Care service in Orpington, London. At this service in Orpington, London we provide quality care and support to a number of older residents, helping and encouraging them to lead a fulfilling and enriched life.
Extra Care housing enables older people to live as independently as possible in a friendly, inclusive and safe environment whilst receiving the care and support they need. We want our service users to lead active and positive lives and to be supported to enjoy physical and mental wellbeing. To achieve this we need responsible, compassionate individuals who can deliver respectful personal care and person-centered support.
Your role will include:
• Providing respectful personal care and administering medication
• Encourage residents to engage in a range of exciting social activities both within and outside the home
• Developing warm and trusting relationships with service users enabling them to enjoy their time at the service to the fullest
• Engage positively with service users and their families and to build trusting relationships
• Work flexibly according to the needs of the service
• You can chose to be paid on a weekly or monthly basis
Previous care and support experience is essential. We will appreciate your life experience, caring approach and personal qualities as well as relevant skills and experience.
As a Creative Support Bank Staff member you will have access to our free app which allows you to pick up shifts in any area of the country and provides information on the service and shifts, including directions.
‘Gender is considered to be an occupational requirement – Equality Act 2010’
Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme.

We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.

We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.

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