Care and Support Worker

Join our friendly, supportive and inclusive team at Weaver's Court to help us make a real difference in the lives of our service users.

Care and Support Worker – Diss

£ enhancements

22.75 average hours per week + opportunity for additional hours

Are you an experienced Care professional looking to develop your career? Come and work for Norfolk's largest care provider. We offer fully funded accredited courses, excellent career progression, and job satisfaction from giving back to your community and improving people's lives.

Please note that Norse Group are currently unable to provide sponsorship.

A day in the life:

You will build strong relationships with your colleagues and community health and social care professionals. With a natural ability and initiative to lead and motivate others, you will work closely with the home managers, supporting the day-to-day supervision of staff and overseeing the care provided.

Providing compassionate care is at the heart of everything we do, so it will be vital that you set an example through your delivery of high-quality, person-centred care. You will champion our residents' independence using your expertise to provide creative solutions that empower them to make informed choices in line with their person-centred care plan.

We believe the best way for you to discover what it's like working with us is to hear from our current colleagues, to find out more, please click here.

About you:

We are looking for people who passionate about supporting others by providing exemplary care and who share our core values:

• We care completely.
• We collaborate proactively.
• We act with integrity.
• We pursue better.
• We make it happen.

About Weaver's Court:

Weaver's Court is a housing with care scheme in Diss, where we provide care and support to tenants who live in their own flat under a tenancy agreement with Saffron Housing.

**We will be looking for you to demonstrate these at the interview stage ** To learn more about our core values, please click here.

We also want you to demonstrate previous experience in a similar role, such as in care, supported housing, or health settings.

Why work for Norse Care?

We value the contribution that everyone at Norse Care makes to improving people's lives. It's important to us that we give you the confidence and knowledge to perform your role to the best of your ability. We provide access to award-winning training, so our service users get the best care, and you have the tools for fantastic self-development, giving you ownership of your career. We want you to succeed

We understand that working in care can be rewarding but also challenging, so your wellbeing is important to us. From day one, you will have access to a wide range of benefits alongside a great reward package including weekend working enhancements, access to a Blue Light Card, physiotherapy and chiropractor treatment, and more. For a complete list of what we offer, please click here to visit our website.

Our core values are at the heart of everything we do. We expect all our colleagues to share our vision and values.

An enhanced DBS check will be required for our successful candidate, payment will be met by the employer. Please ***click here ***for details of our DBS policy relating to the recruitment of ex-offenders.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Due to the high number of applications we receive for our vacancies, if you do not hear from us within two weeks of the date you apply, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.

We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.