Support Workers, Care at Home
Learning Disability

Support Workers

Employer – Trafford Council

Address – Care at Home, Sale, M33 4GT

Salary – £19,698 - £21,748 per annum (Pro rata for part time working. An additional unsocial hours allowance may be applicable depending on shift pattern.)

Salary Grade – Band 3      

Working Pattern – A mixture of part time and full time hours available, please detail your availability in your application

Contract type – Permanent

Interview date – To be confirmed

 

About us:
Care at Home is a re-ablement service that supports service users in their own home. We provide short term support with personal care, meal preparation, medication and domestic tasks for people who have experienced recent illness or injury. Our focus is to support our service users to regain their confidence and independence.  There is no restriction on the times of visits and each service user is given the time and space they need to progress.

The team consists of 16 Support Workers, 2 Senior Support Workers, a Team Coordinator, an Occupational Therapist and the Team Manager.

 

If you have never worked in care before we will provide you with the training and support you need.  If you have never done care work before, you may want to look at this online test to check whether it is for you:   http://www.aquestionofcare.org.uk/whats-involved


About you:

Your style and approach will reflect your values and you will be passionate about what you do, always striving to improve things, valuing and respecting others. You will take pride in your work and always getting things right the first time and learn from when things do go wrong. You will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.

You will have good communication skills with both service users and other professionals.

About the role:
Care at Home is a short-term reablement services and our goal is to support our service users to continue to live independently in their own homes.  You will support service users in their own homes with personal care tasks, meal preparation, medication and domestic task.    Your remit will be to promote independence and personal centered care at all times. 

You will undertake all training courses as required.

You will be required and undertake all tasks conducive to the role.

Support Worker role profile.pdf


For more information please contact Danielle Schofield on 0161 962 0996.

About the benefits:

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things here at Trafford. 

 

Trafford recognises the importance of staff wellbeing and offer a number of initiatives for staff including mindfulness, mental health first aiders, running & walking groups and health and wellbeing events.

Our great benefits include:
Pension

Home Technology Scheme
Car Lease Scheme
Cycle to Work scheme
Simply Healthcare
Employee Discount Scheme - 'Perks at Work'

To learn more about Trafford as a place to live and work, please click here.

 

The Council needs to hold and process information about employees, workers and other individuals as appropriate, for various reasons. With the General Data Protection Regulations coming into force we have in place a new privacy notice for staff, contractors, volunteers, trainees, those on work experience and job applicants.

To find out more, please click here.

Location
Sale Waterside
Vacancy Description
 

Support Workers

Employer – Trafford Council

Address – Care at Home, Sale, M33 4GT

Salary – £19,698 - £21,748 per annum (Pro rata for part time working. An additional unsocial hours allowance may be applicable depending on shift pattern.)

Salary Grade – Band 3      

Working Pattern – A mixture of part time and full time hours available, please detail your availability in your application

Contract type – Permanent

Interview date – To be confirmed

 

About us:
Care at Home is a re-ablement service that supports service users in their own home. We provide short term support with personal care, meal preparation, medication and domestic tasks for people who have experienced recent illness or injury. Our focus is to support our service users to regain their confidence and independence.  There is no restriction on the times of visits and each service user is given the time and space they need to progress.

The team consists of 16 Support Workers, 2 Senior Support Workers, a Team Coordinator, an Occupational Therapist and the Team Manager.

 

If you have never worked in care before we will provide you with the training and support you need.  If you have never done care work before, you may want to look at this online test to check whether it is for you:   http://www.aquestionofcare.org.uk/whats-involved


About you:

Your style and approach will reflect your values and you will be passionate about what you do, always striving to improve things, valuing and respecting others. You will take pride in your work and always getting things right the first time and learn from when things do go wrong. You will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.

You will have good communication skills with both service users and other professionals.

About the role:
Care at Home is a short-term reablement services and our goal is to support our service users to continue to live independently in their own homes.  You will support service users in their own homes with personal care tasks, meal preparation, medication and domestic task.    Your remit will be to promote independence and personal centered care at all times. 

You will undertake all training courses as required.

You will be required and undertake all tasks conducive to the role.

Support Worker role profile.pdf


For more information please contact Danielle Schofield on 0161 962 0996.

About the benefits:

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things here at Trafford. 

 

Trafford recognises the importance of staff wellbeing and offer a number of initiatives for staff including mindfulness, mental health first aiders, running & walking groups and health and wellbeing events.

Our great benefits include:
Pension

Home Technology Scheme
Car Lease Scheme
Cycle to Work scheme
Simply Healthcare
Employee Discount Scheme - 'Perks at Work'

To learn more about Trafford as a place to live and work, please click here.

 

The Council needs to hold and process information about employees, workers and other individuals as appropriate, for various reasons. With the General Data Protection Regulations coming into force we have in place a new privacy notice for staff, contractors, volunteers, trainees, those on work experience and job applicants.

To find out more, please click here.