Female Support Worker

We are seeking positive, caring individuals to provide care to older adults with a range of additional care needs at our Extra Care service based in Orpington. You must be willing to embrace all aspects of the role including, but not limited to, providing support with personal care and domestic tasks, and supporting individuals to access the community and engage in social opportunities. We value the personal skills and interests you bring to the role and to the lives of the people we support, such as, sports and outdoor pursuits, creative arts, music, and cooking to name but a few.

You will support people to maintain a healthy state of wellbeing, mentally, physically and emotionally. You will (alongside members of the person’s circle of support) empower individuals to be happy, healthy, and successful in achieving their life goals.

You will have the choice of either weekly or monthly pay.

Creative Support offers a great range of benefits for its staff, which include:

• A one off £100 bonus for successfully completing the four month probationary period
• Access to the staff benefits scheme where you can access a range of benefits including discounted prices and two for one offers at theme parks, shops, restaurants and various on-line stores
• Free life assurance which provides a lump sum equal to two times annual salary
• Access to a special scheme which enables membership of the Hospital Saturday Fund on preferential rates. There are a choice of packages offering different levels of service.
• Auto-enrolment in a pension scheme with the People’s Pension

Vacancy Reference Number: 73702

Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number – Gender is considered to be an occupational requirement – Equality Act 2010

Full training is provided, as is the opportunity to work towards QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care. Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 28 days Leave and company paid enhanced DBS.

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization – Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold award.

We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK. – This post will not be open to Sponsorship.