Job Description
Support Workers
Location: Birchwood, Warrington
Full time / Part time including sleep ins
Pay £12ph increasing to £12.31ph from 1st April 2025
Are you a compassionate and dedicated support worker looking for a new challenge to join a new team based in Birchwood area of Warrington, to support with the transition of 2 gentlemen in there 20s moving into their own supported living home.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference as they transition into their own home and support them to gain more independence.
What will I be doing:
- Supporting them with their daily needs, encouraging independence, and fostering growth in their current activities.
- Assisting with the transition to independent living.
- Promoting and prompting personal care.
- Developing independent living skills and enhancing quality of life.
- Accompanying them on activities they enjoy, such as walking, trips into Liverpool, and museum visits.
Shift patterns:
You will offer flexibility to work week days and weekends and do a minimum of 1 sleep in a week.
Long days 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM (including sleep-ins) or
Early - 7:00 AM – 2:30 PM or Late 2:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Rota’s will be provided 4 weeks in advance to give you a happy work life balance
Requirements:
- A caring and patient nature.
- Commitment to supporting individuals in achieving their goals.
- Ability to foster a nurturing and positive environment.
Dimensions is proud to be one of very few social care organisations that are accredited by the Great Places To Work programme in 2024 – now 6 years in a row!
Applications will be shortlisted on receipt and interviews will be held until the posts are filled
About you
We believe anyone has the potential be a great support worker, no matter your background, as long as you share our values; respect, partnership, courage, ambition and integrity – that’s why we recruit based on values and not skills or experience. For more information on our values based recruitment click here
Your rewards
A full list of rewards can be found in the job description attached
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An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.
We welcome applications from everyone who has the right to work in the UK, and value diversity in our workforce
As Disability Confident Leaders , we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy - Dimensions has been awarded this symbol by Jobcentre Plus to recognise our commitment towards the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees
As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 03003039150.
We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all of our recruitment communications.
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.