Job Description
*Female Brain Injury Support Worker – Woodford
£11.85 - £13.85 per hour
Shifts required are 8am – 8pm Monday to Sunday plus waking nights 8pm – 8am
Are you passionate about care and want to make a difference in someone’s life and take advantage of flexible hours? - SweetTree Home Care, a CQC rated Outstanding social care organisation could be the place for you!
We are currently recruiting for a team of experienced *female support workers to provide rehabilitation support to our client in Woodford who has sustained a brain injury following a road traffic accident. Our client is very sociable and enjoys being around people and her family.
As part of our client’s rehabilitation programme, she will need:
- Support with personal care
- Encouragement and support to participate in activities to assist her to achieve independence
- Our client is a wheelchair user, so needs support with her motorized wheelchair and hoists
- Assistance with communication and developing a communication book in SLT sessions and has several
Why SweetTree? Some of the benefits of working as a Support Worker include:
✅ Great pay - from £11.85 - £14 per hour
✅ 3-hour minimum visits with clients
✅ Flexible hours to suit you
✅ Zero-hour, part-time and full-time contracts
✅ CQC Outstanding-rated provider
✅ Award-winning training via the SweetTree Academy
✅ 24 hour on call support
✅ Award winning social care company
✅ Internal awards, a recognition scheme, and Long Service Awards
✅£200 Friend Referral Scheme
✅28 days paid holiday including bank holidays
✅DBS Certificate fully refunded once you have worked 80 hours
✅Contributory Pension Scheme
✅Access to LifeWorks Benefits Scheme – offering monetary savings and offers
✅An Employee Assistance Programme (for confidential advice and support)
✅Bespoke specialist training relevant to our clients such as PROACT-SCIPr-UK®
✅SweetTree Fields Farm – the opportunity to support clients on our farm that is a safe, nurturing and social environment
All applications for this position must be made online by clicking the 'Apply' button and our Recruitment team will be in touch.
**Exemption is claimed under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9
At the core of SweetTree’s service philosophy is a belief that everyone should have the opportunity to live independently in their own home, with dignity, freedom of choice and control over their life; regardless of their level of need. We make this vision a reality by employing the best people and by adopting a team approach to the provision of our services.
Our clients and care team members are always at the forefront of all we do, we understand that in order to continually evolve and improve what we do our care team members need to feel appreciated, valued, and well trained!
We are a caring employer and committed to developing, nurturing and rewarding our team. And that’s why we continue to be recognised and awarded for the work that we do. Testament to this is once again being recognised by Best Companies as a Top 100 Company to work for – an award that measures and acknowledges excellence in workplace engagement. Only organisations with the highest level of overall employee engagement qualify for the 100 Best Company to Work For list – and we are proud to be one of them!
Strong recruitment, training and career development practices have also seen SweetTree retain its position as an Investors in People Gold Standard company – an accolade achieved by just 7% of accredited organisations and only 1,000 organisations nationwide.
“It is fantastic recognition for the hard work and dedication of both our office based staff and care team members to receive such wonderful feedback from such highly regarded external bodies, this just reinforces what a wonderful, unique and special company and team we have here at SweetTree.” Barry Sweetbaum, Founder