Job Description
Join Our Team as a Relief FemaleSupport Worker in Newbury!
Pay: £12.21 per hour (+12.07% Additional Accrual)
Position: Relief / Bank
Location: Newbury, RG19 (Just a 6 min drive from Newbury Train Station!)
Requirements: Full UK Driving Licence Covering Manual Vehicles
Are you looking for a flexible role that fits around your life? As a Relief Support Worker, you choose your hours with no obligation to accept shifts. Enjoy an enhanced rate of £13.68 per hour, including an additional 12.07% for every hour worked.
Who Will I Be Supporting?
You’ll be working at a welcoming respite support service with six rooms, providing care for individuals who stay for varying durations—from weekends to several months. We support individuals with learning disabilities, autism, and complex health needs, fostering close relationships with their families to provide holistic care.
Our residents love to:
- Go on exciting day trips to the zoo.
- Relax at the cinema or enjoy a swim.
- Explore new places on holidays.
If you thrive in a dynamic environment and enjoy learning new skills while embracing daily challenges, this role is perfect for you.
What Will You Be Doing?
Empowering Independence: Support people to live their lives how they choose and achieve their goals.
Daily Living Support: Provide varying levels of personal care, meal preparation, medication, shopping, cooking, cleaning, and laundry.
Providing Care: Support individuals with health needs such as stoma care, PEG feeding, epilepsy, and more.
Flexible Shift Patterns
Day Shifts: 7:00am - 2:30pm
Day Sleep-Ins Shifts: 2:30pm - 7am the following day (Includes £50 sleep-in shift)
Sleep-In Shifts: 10pm – 7am (Paid To Sleep)
Waking Night Shifts: 10pm – 7am
Weekend Availability is Highly Valued: You get to choose the shifts that suit you however we’re especially seeking candidates with availability to cover weekend shifts.
Rotas are provided in advance, ensuring a balanced and manageable work-life schedule.
Why Choose Dimensions?
- Award-Winning Workplace: Recognised 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: Paid training and opportunities to further develop your career through funded accredited courses.
- Well-Being Focus: Comprehensive well-being strategy and staff listening network.
- Values-Driven: We put 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: Bike to Work scheme, 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.