Part Time Support Worker

Are you looking a part time role, for Monday-Friday, 2 hours a day? (times flexible for any 2 hours that would suit you best)

Would you love a rewarding role, supporting a lady with a spinal cord injury in her own home? (Break cover for the live in support worker)

Come and join one of the UK's largest providers of complex care.

Within the Care in the Home division, we support adults with spinal cord injury to live in their own homes.

We'd like you to join us as a Support Worker at our clients home based in West Molesey.

When you'll be working:

• Monday-Friday
• 2 hours a day - any 2 hours that suits you (we are flexible)
• We would prefer all year round cover but willing to consider term time only

About the role:

This role is to support our female client with a spinal cord injury in her own home for 2 hours a day, to enable the Live In Support Worker to have a break. This will involve supporting with personal care, medication, moving and handling and domestic duties.

No previous experience required as full training, shadow shifts and ongoing support will be provided.

The role as told by our client:

I'm a full time wheelchair user with a very active lifestyle. I have a gorgeous assistance dog. I volunteer for a charity as a mentor and teach wheelchair skills to newly injured patients in hospital. I like to socialise with friends, shop and go to theatre and concerts. As well as care needs the role is to support me while my live-in carer has a break. Some help with house work would also be appreciated.

What you'll have:

• Kind and caring nature
• Flexibility & reliability
• Good communication skills

What to look forward to:

• £12.25 up to £13 per hour (depending on experience)
• Full specialist training, shadow shifts, and ongoing support from the Care Manager provided
• Accrued holiday pay
• Regular consistent work with rolling rotas
• Flexible zero hours contract
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1,500 by recommending someone you know
• and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group

Active Care Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer. However due to the nature of the position there is a Genuine Occupational Requirement to recruit female Personal Healthcare Assistants.

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability committed employer.