Dimensions
Location
Watford, Hertfordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
WANTED - Support Workers in Watford, Hertfordshire.
Are you looking for flexible, rewarding work? Are you looking to further your career or try something new?
If you are 18+ and want to develop a career in the social care sector, then apply and train in house as a Support Worker.
- Watford, WD25
- £11.20 per hour
- Part time - 10 hours per week
- Shifts are set at 10am-3pm - every Wednesday & Thursday
What we can offer:
- Paid holidays.
- Paid training with financial bonuses for completion of awards and diplomas
- Guaranteed hour contracts.
- Help to achieve certificates.
- Free DBS check
- Access to some of your earned pay ahead of your regular payday
- Access to the Blue Light Card (lots of discounts available)
- £500 bonus for recommending a friend to work for us if they are employed.
- 50% contribution to the cost of learning to drive, subject to certain criteria.
- Discounts and cashback on shopping and days out with our colleague benefits scheme
What the role entails
Do you enjoy spending your time outdoors? Whether that is trying new activities in the local community or visiting the local town centre? Or maybe you have an interest in baking, arts and crafts and making new friends? If so, apply and train in house to become our newest support worker where you will be supporting one gentleman with similar interests.
By becoming our newest support worker, you can expect day trips out. The gentleman we support enjoys going bowling, attending his day centre programme where he meets new friends, baking (cakes), arts, and crafts and going to the local town to go shopping. We would however, like our newest support workers to bring creativity and innovative ideas into our teams.
Additionally, your role will be to encourage independence with his personal and intimate care, provide encouragement, prompts and support to complete tasks within the home, mobility support and guidance to support with maintaining a healthy diet. This will include meal planning, shopping for healthy food items and support with feeding.
There is no such thing as a 'typical' support worker. Colleagues range from school leavers who want a job that involves helping people, to those who want a change of career, to experienced support workers wanting to work for an organisation that truly places the people it supports at the heart of all it does, to those coming to the end of a completely different career who want to give something back to their community.
Apply online now and we will be in touch for a chat!
We recruit based on values so whilst previous experience is always welcome, it is certainly not essential as full specialist training and support will be provided. We just need to come with an open mind, shared values, and an eagerness to learn.
- Applications are reviewed upon receipt and interviews will take place until the positions are filled.
- 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 our recruitment communications.
- We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
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Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .
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Salary
£11.2 per hour
