Support Worker
Location: The Vines, Innhams Wood, Crowborough, TN6 1TE, GB
Salary: £13.20 P/H + £1,000 Joining Bonus (T&Cs Apply)
Contract: Permanent full time
Shifts: 07:30am‑20:00pm & 19:30pm‑08:00am (Days, nights & weekends across 7 days)
Full driving licence required.
Priory Adult Care is the UK’s leading independent provider of specialist adult care services. Our aim is to provide the right support in the right home for all the individuals we accommodate. With community‑based residential care settings, as well as a network of supported living services, we support adults over the age of 18 with autism, dementia, learning disabilities, mental health conditions and behaviours that challenge. We also offer a range of residential and nursing care settings for older people with varying levels of need. At Priory, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of something special – a close‑knit, supportive and diverse team who help to make a real difference to people’s lives.
We offer full training and numerous career pathways, including our Nurse Apprenticeship program.
Responsibilities
* Be reliable, friendly and caring to help our residents achieve their everyday goals (including personal care)
* Be able to support in‑house activities and hobbies
* Be attentive and inspire our service users to achieve their goals.
* Be resilient and help manage some behaviours that challenge
* Supporting with personal care tasks, such as washing, dressing, eating and personal care
* Perform light housekeeping tasks, such as dusting, vacuuming, and changing bed clothes
* Assist with safe lifting, transferring, repositioning and movement of individuals
* Observe, monitor, and record physical and emotional well‑being, and quickly report any changes to senior staff
* Encouragement to participate in social and recreational activities, Have a great sense of humour.
Benefits
* A competitive salary
* Enhanced disclosure cost coverage
* Comprehensive induction and commitment to on‑going training
* Online benefits and cashback rewards
* Blue Light Card application opportunity
* Cycle to work scheme
* NEST pension option
* Benefits are subject to T&Cs
Disclosures
All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland, and the cost of this will be covered by Priory.
Equal opportunity statement
We are an equal opportunities employer.
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