Job Description
Join Our Team as a Female Support Worker in Market Drayton!
Location: Market Drayton, TF9 (Just a 2 min drive from Drayton Medical Practice)
Pay Rate: £12.31 per hour (+ £50 per Sleep-In Shift)
Position: Full-Time (37.5 Hours Per Week)
Requirements: Full UK Driving Licence, Own Car, and Business Insurance (Mileage can be claimed back)
Are you a compassionate, reliable individual looking for a role where you can make a real difference? Do you enjoy motivating others and supporting them to lead fulfilling lives? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
Who Will You Be Supporting?
You’ll be working with two lovely ladies in their 40s who have learning disabilities. They are independent in many ways but require support to live their lives to the fullest.
- Nurturing Lady: A loving soul who adores her rabbits and takes great pride in caring for them—feeding, cleaning, and putting them to bed. She loves animals and thrives on responsibility.
- Humorous Lady: Full of laughter and a cheeky sense of humour, she loves to joke around and have a good time. She enjoys light-hearted fun and engaging conversations.
Both ladies are eager to explore more of the UK and are planning trips and weekends away. They also need some support with healthy eating—one of them has diabetes and will need guidance around managing her diet.
What Will You Be Doing?
As a Support Worker, your role will be varied and rewarding. You’ll be there to empower the ladies to live independently, providing a range of support that includes:
- Daily Living Support: Assist with meal preparation, medication administration (for one lady), and encouraging healthy eating habits.
- No Personal Care: Personal care is not required, as both ladies are quite independent in this area.
- Activity Engagement: Support their interests—whether it’s caring for the rabbits or having a good laugh—and help them plan and enjoy trips around the UK.
- Empowering Independence: Encourage them in their daily routines, helping them stay motivated and active, whether at home or on outings.
- Transportation: Drive them to various activities and outings in your own vehicle. Business insurance is required, but mileage will be reimbursed.
Shift Patterns
- Day Shifts: 7am - 4pm
Day Shifts: 4pm - 9pm
Day Shifts: 1:30pm - 9pm
- Sleep-In Shifts: 10pm - 7am (1-2 sleep-in shifts 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.