Home Support Worker

3 weeks ago

Wantage, United Kingdom Age UK Oxfordshire Full time

**About Us**

We're a local independent charity working in the community to support older people, their families and carers. We want everyone to live life to the full.

**What we stand for:
Enabling older people across the county to live life to the full. Age UK Oxfordshire is an independent local charity.

We have over 160 dedicated staff and over 235 volunteers helping us to deliver services and activities for older people in Oxfordshire.

**Our mission**:
Enabling and empowering individuals and communities to support older people to stay independent and live life to the full. Our vision:
We are working for a world where those we serve are living their best lives.

Our values
- :Caring
- Listening and amplifying people’s voices
- Enabling and empowering by working alongside people to identify solutions
- Passionate for better
- Collaborative

**Position**:
Our Home Support team are looking for new people to join their growing service in Wantage.

Are you looking for a fulfilling role with hours to fit your needs? Then this could be the role for you. We offer a service to support people at home. We cover a variety of tasks so your day will never be the same.

You could help prepare some meals, take the client shopping, help with cleaning around the house, even take them out to visit a local garden centre, what ever they need on the day. We are the extra pair of hands they need to maintain their independence at home.

We offer a minimum of one hour visits to our clients, no “pop in” service, you will get to know your clients. We offer the same clients each week to help build that relationship. We do not provide personal care.

Joanna has been with us for over 3.5 years and said “I love working here. It’s been one of my happiest jobs”.

You do not need care experience, but the commitment and compassion to work with older people in your local community.

We pay £11.50 an hour, including travel time. We offer the service Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00, so no evening or weekends

**Requirements**:
**What we ask of you**:

- Available a minimum of 3 days for 5 hours each day.
- Live within 3 miles of Wantage
- Have a driving licence and access to a car.
- Compassionate and committed to the role.

**What we offer you**:

- £11.50 an hour for all hours, including travel.
- Contracted hours, based on your availability.
- Supervision and support.
- 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holiday time. After 5 years service increasing to 30

days holiday, plus Bank Holiday time. Pro rata.
- Sick Pay
- Free Health Cash Plan. Enabling you to claim back hundreds of pounds of day to

day health costs.

Dental £60

Dental Accidents £200

Optical£60

Wellbeing therapies e.g. Physio, Osteo, Chiropractor £150

Chiropody£20

Health Screening £100

Specialist Consultation £200

Complementary therapies e.g. Reflexology, Homeopathy, Aromatherapy £50

Hospital Inpatient £10 a night

Prescriptions Claim back one prescription

This is available for you and the same amount for each dependant under the age of 24.

**Other information**:

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