Female Support Worker
| Posting date: | 05 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £13.78 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 March 2026 |
| Location: | Bricket Wood, AL2 3PJ |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Dimensions |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Dim/23235 |
Summary
About Dimensions
You can bring your whole self to work and be celebrated for it. Inclusion, respect, and practical support ensure you feel seen, supported, and valued, so you can thrive alongside the people we support.
Dimensions is proud to be one of very few social care organisations that are accredited by the Great Places To Work programme in 2025 - now 7 years in a row!
About the role
- Female Support Worker
- Full time and part time contracts available
- Bricket Wood, St Albans, AL2
- Full UK manual driving licence essential.
You'll be supporting one woman in her 50s, living in her own bungalow within a small cluster of bungalows and flats in Bricket Wood. She receives 1:1 support at home and in the community and lives a very active life. Your role will be to help her enjoy the things she loves from going out for tea and cake, walking for miles, enjoying seaside trips, to taking caravan holidays two or three times a year. She also enjoys traditional outings such as lunch with friends.
You'll assist her with personal care, dressing (being mindful of sensory needs around clothing), bathing, medication, and preparing home-cooked meals, something she really enjoys. She is dependent on staff for daily needs, though she can complete some tasks with prompts.
It's important you feel comfortable with sensory behaviours and can support her with patience and reassurance.
Shifts vary, with starts from 7am and finishing at 10:15pm, mostly longer days with some 7.5-hour shifts. Rotas are issued four weeks in advance and include weekends, bank holidays, and sleep-ins (no waking nights). As she has her own manual car, you must hold a UK manual driving licence to support her.
Experience is not essential — you'll receive excellent training and shadowing from a colleague who has supported her for over 10 years.
About you
You'll be a great match if you:
- Are patient, warm, and comfortable with loud vocalisations and sensory behaviours.
- Are active and enjoy being out and about.
- Can cook and enjoy preparing home-made meals.
- Are confident driving a manual car.
- Can work flexibly across a variety of shift patterns.
- Want to make a real difference and embrace a person-centred, values-based role.
Rewards that make a difference
- A competitive payrate with uplift for overtime you chose to work
- Flexible shift patterns to suit your needs
- 30 days paid Annual Leave (including public holidays - pro rata)
- Opportunities for career progression
- Supported 'Learn to Drive' scheme (up to 30 driving lessons, 1 theory/practical test - all paid for by us)
- We offer a salary advance scheme where you can access up to 50% of the money you've earned before payday.
- High Street Discounts - Retail and Entertainment (supermarkets, hospitality, pubs, cinema etc.)
- Life Assurance and Company Pension
- Industry leading training
- Enhanced DBS paid for by us
Apply now
- An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.
- We welcome applications from everyone who has the right to work in the UK, and value diversity in our workforce.
- As Disability Confident Leaders , we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy - Dimensions has been awarded this symbol by Jobcentre Plus to recognise our commitment towards the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees.
- As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 03003039150.
- We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all of our recruitment communications.
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