Care and Support Worker

Care and Support Worker Location: WeymouthSalary: £12.60 per hourHours: 26 Hours Per WeekClosing Date: Sunday 20 October 2024The Offer At East Boro our Domiciliary Care and Support Team work flexibly with adults to enable them to live in their own home as independently as possible. As a Support Worker you will provide appropriate domiciliary care and support which will allow people to remain independent and live their lives to the full.Our care and support workers assist our service users with their daily living tasks, such as assisting them with their medication needs, shopping, cleaning, healthy eating, correspondence, cooking, applying for jobs and enjoy all the fun activities, such as going out for day trips and discos!The service will also cover a wide range of tasks, including: Assisting the service users to get up or go to bed. Washing, bathing, hair care, denture, and mouth care Transfer/Hoisting Assisting the user with, dressing and undressing; toileting, including necessary cleaning and safe disposal of waste; assisting the service user with food or drink. Preparation; eating and drinking, including associated kitchen cleaning and hygiene.Our Support Workers work shifts covering between the hours of 8.30am - 10.00pm, on a rolling rota across the week. Additional shifts are generally available for which we offer an enhanced rate of pay.We can be flexible to accommodate other lengths of shift, for example covering our busiest times. '>About us '>Specialising in housing and support services for the elderly, adults with learning disabilities and other vulnerable people, we seek to provide our residents with more than just a home. Our customers are our reason for being so we try to involve customers in everything we do. We have provided care and support services since 1960 and currently serve a range of customers with different needs.About you '>You will need: Good communication skills Basic literacy and numeracy skills To be compassionate and patient Ideally some experience in a caring industry To pass our DBS check or be on the DBS update service Verify your right to work in the UK.Even better if you have previous experience of a working for a personalised care services for adults of with physical, learning, and mental disabilities and providing personal care.EBHT as part of the Aster Group is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it's subsidiary brands.We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like: A focus on colleague wellbeing - workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan We invest in colleagues' careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives, and monthly and annual awardsWe cannot wait to hear from you! Apply as soon as possible with your most updated CV. height: 50px;background-image: url(https://www.networxrecruitment.net/Content/ClientImages/1016/Aster Footer 2020.png); background-repeat: repeat; background-position: none; background-repeat: none;'>