Home Care Support Worker

**Home Care Support Worker - Independence at Home**:Posted on 27 December 2024 Apply
- Directorate BHCC: Housing, Care and Wellbeing
- Salary £14.13 - £14.36 per hour plus enhancements for night, weekend and Bank Holiday working
- Contract Permanent

**Location**:
Beech Cottage Woodingdean

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**Job Summary**:
- Job reference

orbis/TP/489/43281- Positions available

3- Working hours

to cover evening shifts, from 17.5 hours up to 28 hours per week working across the City.- Closing date

20 January 2025- Job category

Care - Adults- Organisation

Brighton & Hove City Council

**Job introduction**:
**Various positions available** to cover evening shifts, from 17.5 hours up to 28 hours per week _working across the City_.

**Evening Staff Various rotas/hours available working across the city**

**Salary range**:
**£14.13 - £14.36 per hour (**plus enhancements for weekend, evenings and Bank Holidays).**

**Full time salary £27,269 - £27,711**

**Interview date**: TBC

**About the role**:
**Are you looking to make a difference to someone’s life?**

**Are you caring, reliable and good with people?**
**Could you care for someone else?**
**If so, then we would like to hear from you.**

Our Independence at Home team provides short-term care and support, mainly to older people within the city, to help them re-gain their confidence and independence so they can stay living in their own homes where they are most comfortable and happy...

Our last CQC Inspection rated our service as “Good”. It highlighted that “the service was well led” and staff felt that managers were “approachable and very supportive”.

Our aim is to provide the highest quality of care to the people who rely on us and we put their needs at the heart of everything we do. But we can’t continue to provide excellent care in the community without more dedicated, skilled and motivated carers.

Working as part of a dedicated team led by an experienced manager you will provide support to a wide range of people including individuals who have a physical disability, learning difficulty, sensory loss, mental health issues, dementia or a complex combination of needs.

This will include:

- personal care such as washing, bathing, dressing and toileting
- assistance with moving around their home
- help with shopping and preparing meals
- emotional and social support
- helping with medication
- liaising with other health care services and family members
- support to regain confidence with daily living skills.

You don’t need any formal qualifications but previous care experience would be an advantage. You will need to:

- have a caring, flexible and professional approach to your wo
- have good written and number skill
- get on well with people from a variety of backgrounds
- work well as part of a team
- work on your own initiative
- be willing to undertake the high quality training we will provide for you

As part of your training, we will also give you the opportunity to shadow one of our experienced carers for a short period until you are able to undertake care calls on your own.

We can offer you:

- a higher rate of pay than the average market rate
- enhancements for working in the evenings, at weekends and on bank holidays
- a career average pension scheme
- generous holiday (Pro rata)
- paid travel time between calls
- paid mileage expenses
- regular supervision meetings
- a range of other staff benefits
- free uniform and personal protective equipment
- opportunities for career progression including support to enable you, if you wish, to study for the QCF diplomas in Health & Social Care (levels 2 and 3)

**Additional information**:
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

**Company information**:
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Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk