Job Description
Join Our Team as a MaleSupport Worker in Stafford!
Pay: £12.31 per hour (£50 per Sleep-In Shift)
Position: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Location: Stafford, ST16 (Just a 5 min drive from County Hospital, Stafford)
Requirements: Full UK Driving Licence & Own Vehicle
Are you passionate about making a real difference in people's lives? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Who Will I Be Supporting?
You will be supporting three active gents in their 30s with learning disabilities and autism, including one who does not use words to communicate. They live together in a shared home and maintain close relationships with their families, who often visit on weekends. These individuals have vibrant interests:
- Active Lifestyles: Gym sessions, swimming, bowling, day trips, and countryside walks.
- Musical Hobbies: Drum and guitar lessons, with a drum kit available in the house.
- Social Activities: Enjoying outings in town, nature walks, and various day trips.
We’re looking for support workers who are calm, organized, punctual, and have a bubbly, positive attitude.
What Will You Be Doing?
- Empowering Independence: Support them in living their lives how they choose and achieving their goals.
- Daily Living Support: Assist with personal care, meal preparation, shopping, cooking, cleaning, and laundry.
- Consistent Care: Administer medication, maintain routines, and learn their preferred communication methods.
Shift Patterns
- Day Shifts: 7:30am - 3pm
- Day Shifts: 3pm – 10:30pm
- Long Day Shifts: 7:30am - 10:30pm
- Sleep-In Shifts: 10:30pm – 7:30am (Paid To Sleep)
1-2 sleep-in shifts are required per week. Rotas are provided in advance to support a healthy work-life balance.
Why Choose Dimensions?
- Award-Winning Workplace: Recognized as one of the UK’s best workplaces in the ‘super large’ category by the Great Place to Work Institute six years in a row.
- Generous Leave: 30 days annual leave pro rata with the option to buy and sell leave.
- Career Development: Access paid training and opportunities to further your career through funded accredited courses.
- Well-Being Focus: Benefit from our comprehensive well-being strategy and staff listening network.
- Values-Driven: Join a team that puts people with learning disabilities and their families at the heart of everything we do.
- Referral Bonus: Receive a £200 bonus if you refer a friend and they’re successfully employed.
- Additional Perks: Enjoy the Bike to Work scheme and discounts on meals, shopping, entertainment, and gym memberships.
Other Important Information
- Immediate Reviews: Applications are reviewed upon receipt and interviews will continue until positions are filled.
- Equality Commitment: Gender is considered a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 where mentioned. In this context, "gender" refers to the sex legally assigned to an individual.
- DBS Disclosure: An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be covered by Dimensions.
- Inclusive Workforce: We welcome applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK and value diversity in our workforce.
- Disability Confident: We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
- BSL Support: British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos are available for all of our recruitment communications.
Ready to make a real difference? Apply now and join a team that values you and the incredible work you do!
Dimensions is a national social care company and we are proud to have been recognised as one of the UK’s best workplaces in the ‘super large’ category by the Great Place to Work Institute three years in a row.
As one of the country’s largest not-for-profits supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, behaviours of distress, and complex needs, we are driven by our values. People with learning disabilities and their families are at the heart of everything we do and we want every person we support to have a great life, with excellent outcomes.
Dimensions has hundreds of services across England and Wales and have over 5000 colleagues supporting more than 2,500 people.
Our head office is based in Theale (Reading), however since the pandemic all business support staff now work from home, with access to work in shared workspaces.
We are always working to improve standards – our own and across the sector. Dimensions was one of the pioneers of personalised support, showing how it works in practice, and enabling thousands of people to have greater choice and control. We continue to be innovative in our approach, and our Strategy for 2025 outlines our commitment to becoming a leader in our sector.