Support Worker
| Posting date: | 06 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £12.31 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | Worcester, WR3 7AA |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Dimensions |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Dim/22058 |
Summary
Join Our Team as a Support Worker in Worcester!
Pay: £12.31 per hour
Position: Part-Time (35 hours)
Location: Worcester, WR3 (Just a 3 min drive from Tenpin Worcester)
Requirements: Full UK Driving Licence Covering Manual Vehicles
Are you a Support Worker with a passion for making a difference? If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!
Who Will I Be Supporting?
Step into a role where you will be making a difference in the life of a friendly gentleman in his 40s with learning disabilities and epilepsy. He lives independently and thrives on social interaction and staying active. He loves:
- Socializing: Visiting English Heritage sites, national trust sites, bowling, and cheering at live football matches.
- Staying Active: Enjoying long countryside walks, trips to the beach, hydro sessions, and playing football.
- Hobbies: Watching Blockbusters on his iPad, strumming his guitar, and listening to music. He also enjoys quiet days at home watching movies or baking a cake.
If you are someone who is active, enthusiastic, and able to react quickly and calmly under pressure, you will be a great fit. Building positive relationships with his involved family is essential.
What Will You Be Doing?
- Empowering Independence: Support him to live his life the way he chooses, promoting his choices and helping him achieve his personal goals.
- Daily Living Support: Assist with personal care, encourage healthy eating and cooking, medication, shopping, cleaning, keeping house tidy, and laundry.
- Encouraging Activities: Engage in his various interests, listening to music, ensuring he enjoys an active and fulfilling lifestyle.
Shift Patterns
- Day Shifts: 8am - 3pm
- Day Shifts: 3pm - 10pm
- Long Day Shifts: 8am - 10pm
Rotas are provided in advance to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
Why Choose Dimensions?
- Award-Winning Workplace: Recognized as one of the UK's best workplaces in the 'super large' category by the Great Place to Work Institute six years in a row.
- Generous Leave: 30 days annual leave pro rata with the option to buy and sell leave.
- Career Development: Access paid training and opportunities to further develop your career through funded accredited courses.
- Well-Being Focus: Benefit from our comprehensive well-being strategy and staff listening network.
- Values-Driven: Join a team that puts people with learning disabilities and their families at the heart of everything we do.
- Referral Bonus: Receive a £200 bonus if you refer a friend and they're successfully employed.
- Additional Perks: Enjoy the Bike to Work scheme and discounts on meals, shopping, entertainment, and gym memberships.
Other Important Information
- Immediate Reviews: Applications are reviewed upon receipt and interviews will continue until positions are filled.
- Equality Commitment: Gender is considered a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 where mentioned.
- DBS Disclosure: An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be covered by Dimensions.
- Inclusive Workforce: We welcome applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK and value diversity in our workforce.
- Disability Confident: We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
- BSL Support: British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos are available for all of our recruitment communications.
Ready to make a real difference? Apply now and join a team that values you and the incredible work you do!
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme