Support Worker Vacancies

**Job details**:

- Job reference
- REQ00000016552
- Date posted
- 10/04/2024
- Application closing date
- Blank
- Location
- MILLOM
- Salary
- £13.05 - £13.55 (with supplement)
- Package
- Blank
- Contractual hours
- 0
- Basis
- Part time

**Support Worker Vacancies - Lapstone House**:

- Job description

**Support Worker Vacancies - Lapstone House**

**Hourly Rate**: £13.05 (13.55 with supplement)

**_ A market supplement of £0.50p per hour is also attached to this role and is included in the advertised hourly rate. This will be applied to both your basic salary and to any additional hours._**

The advertised hourly rate includes a supplement (JWC) to the base grade of the post. JWC supplements are conditional on the physical demands and /or working conditions of the role.

**Location(s)**: Lapstone House Residential Care Home, Millom

**Available Hours**: 1 x 0 Hours Per Week - Relief and 1 x 16 Bank Position

**About this opportunity**

Are you interested in supporting Adults in Cumbria?

Would you like to be part of our friendly, hardworking teams, making a difference to someone’s life?

We have opportunities for caring and compassionate people to join our Cumbria Care team at Lapstone House, as Support Workers (Carer, Care Worker, Care Assistant) providing support and care within our Residential Care Services.

**About Residential Care**

Help older adults live their life how they choose and enjoy their later years. Support people to stay active and healthy by encouraging good nutrition and promoting fitness and mobility, as well as supporting emotional wellness.

**About the role**

As a Support Worker (Carer Care Worker Care Assistant) you will get the opportunity to know people individually and support their wellbeing through physical and emotional care. You may also assist with medication providing personal care and encouraging our people to achieve or maintain independence.

This role is an opportunity to help older adults live their life how they choose and enjoy their later years. You will be supporting people to stay active and healthy by encouraging good nutrition and promoting fitness and mobility as well as supporting emotional wellness.

No experience or qualifications are needed to get started. We will help and support you with fully paid training and development - we are looking for the right people with the right qualities. If you do have experience then come and take the next step in your career with us.

If you're friendly compassionate and want to make a difference to people's lives' we would love to speak with you

**About Our Home**

Lapstone House provides a cosy warm environment making you feel right at home, we are a small home with 23 bedrooms in total, and split over two floors on both floors we have a lounge and dining area.

We accommodate people with physical frailty and people living with Dementia. The environment we create at Lapstone is to encourage our residents to stay active in body and mind which supports the person's independence and dignity at all times. We deliver the highest quality of care to our residents.

Working within our Residential Care Service will typically involve working shifts which usually cover between 7am until 10pm (days) or 9.30pm - 7.30am (nights), over 7 days, 365 day a year - this will include alternate weekends (as part of a set rota) and Bank Holidays.

**What can we offer you**
- Excellent training and development offers
- Flexible working opportunities
- Opportunity to join the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Boost your pension with Shared Cost Additional Voluntary Contributions (facilitated by AVC Wise)
- Various perks and discounts schemes, including money off your local gyms
- Competitive rates of pay

**DBS**

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and requires an enhanced DBS check with a Adults Barred List check.

**Application and Interview Information**

We look forward to hearing from you

**Safer Recruitment**

At Cumberland Council we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all employees, volunteers and the Externally Provided Workforce (EPWs) to share this commitment.

**Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion**

As a Disability Confident Employer, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.