Home Support Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 04 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Competitive |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Bolton |
| Cwmni: | inploi |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 75724474 |
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Grade: D scp6 £19,667 to scp11 £21,296 The position attracts essential car user allowance and 7% salary enhancement for out of hours working.
Contract: Permanent 28hrs per week on a rota basis.
Role specifics: Must be over 18yrs and hold a full UK driving licence.
The Role
The service provides a stepping stone to independence, by supporting people to regain lost skills, learn new skills, and adapt to the challenges that living independently can present.
You will work within a CQC “Good” rated - Home Support Reablement Council Team, and will have an opportunity to work with other professionals such as our colleagues in the NHS, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists etc to provide all aspects of care, which includes but not exhaustive of:
Moving and Handling, Personal Care, administering medication and ensuring service users dignity and wishes are at the centre of the care provided.
Home Support Reablement is a short-term service, meaning there is a quick turn over of service users.
The role of a support worker is to support people in their own home who are at risk of needing social care or have an increased intensity of care. Support workers will support service users to regain functioning,
maintain life skills, rebuild their confidence and promote wellbeing.
28-hour contracts are available on a rolling rota with flexible approaches to shift patterns, including split shifts. (See attached rota examples)
About You
Are you a caring, person centred, committed individual? If so, we want to hear from you!
Do you have a Full Driving License and access to a vehicle to use for work purposes? If so, we are looking to recruit support workers that have a passion to support and care for adults in the community with the ability to work on your own initiative. You must have the ability to communicate clearly with people of all levels and have the skills to work in the community to encourage people to engage and reach their potential.
No experience is required for the role of home support worker, but a commitment to want to work in social care is essential.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.
Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and explain how you meet the points on the person specification.
Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk
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↗ Our Values & Behaviours
↗ Privacy Notice
↗ Staff Benefits
↗ Job Description & Person Specification
↗ Home Support Rota 1
↗ Home Support Rota 2
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