Extra Care Support Worker

Overview

£12.85 per hour

Carlisle, Cumbria

Full-Time, Part-Time

We are looking for hardworking, flexible and empathetic Support Workers to join our team, providing a person-centred service at our Extra Care Service at Heysham Gardens, Carlisle. The service is a purpose-built scheme which offers independent living opportunities for older people in a friendly, inclusive and safe environment.

• Engage with service users and build trusting therapeutic relationships through personalised extra care services.
• Provide respectful personal care to meet service users’ needs.
• Communicate effectively with service users, their families, and the care team to support active and positive living.
• Contribute to creating a safe, inclusive environment within the service.

• Hardworking, flexible and empathetic with a person-centred approach.
• Good communication skills and the ability to build trusting relationships.
• Ability to provide respectful personal care in line with service user needs.
• Warmth and passion for providing dedicated care to older people.

• Flexible hours including evenings and weekends.
• Creative Support’s Development Pathway with a structured induction and values-led training.
• Career progression through tailored learning aligned with national strategies and the WE CARE framework.
• Probationary bonus, pension contributions, 28 days annual leave and company-paid enhanced DBS.
• Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Employer;
  Investors in People Gold awarded.

Applications are reviewed as they are received. We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK. Applications must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the vacancy reference number:

Vacancy Reference Number: 92135

Application instructions: read the job description and complete the online application form using the links above. A copy of the application form can be downloaded using the links above. Completed applications should be submitted to our Head Office address or emailed to re to be considered for the vacancy. If you have not received a response within 10 working days of the closing date, please accept this as notification of an unsuccessful application.

Unsuccessful applicants must wait 6 months before reapplying.

If you require any advice on completing your application form, please call .

Recruitment Department, Creative Support Ltd, Wellington House, 131 Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK1 3TS