Full-time and Part-time Options Available
- Award winning in-house training with opportunities to develop your career
- 24/7 Everyday Advice helpline, giving you impartial guidance regarding any personal matters or concerns you may have
- On Call support 24 hours a day
- Discounts at high street retailers and on gym memberships
- Access to our Health Cash Plan
- Paid travel expenses between consecutive sessions of support
- £250 bonus for recommending a friend to become a support worker
- Paid Enhanced Disclosure and Barring (DBS) Certificate (which you need to be able to work in social care
Support Worker, Wakefield Areas
Due to the terms of our sponsorship licence, we are currently not able to accept applications from those requiring sponsorship. Please only apply if you are already a resident in the UK with no sponsorship requirements.
Avalon Group is an award-winning charity with over 30 years’ experience in providing person-centred support to adults with care support needs. We pride ourselves in promoting independence and choice, enabling the people we support to achieve their best life experience. At Avalon, we live everyday by our values of respect, honesty, learning & development, inclusion and partnership working.
Looking for a fulfilling and rewarding job that works for you?
We’re currently looking for Support Workers within Wakefield & Surrounding Areas to join our friendly team. Full-time and part-time options are available, allowing you to join a new role which respects commitments you may already have. Due to support locations, you must be able to travel as required within Wakefield and surrounding areas.
Our mission is to provide inclusive and personalised support. As a Support Worker, you’ll be delivering vital support to our customers, including helping them with their personal care, daily living skills, administration of medication, and their finances. This is a varied and meaningful role where you will be helping the people you support to live the life they choose.
You don’t need previous experience or qualifications – we’re simply looking for compassionate, driven, and caring individuals who are enthusiastic about making a difference to people’s lives and delivering the highest possible quality of care. Whether you are experienced in care or are looking to start a new meaningful and rewarding career, our in-house training team will ensure that you have all the additional skills you need to deliver your role with confidence.
Job Security & Guaranteed Income – hourly rates start at £12.27 with enhanced rates for overnight and weekend shifts. PLUS we offer paid mileage, paid training, and lots of great benefits! We are a well-established care provider, providing you with a secure role and scope to develop.
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Ready to apply? Please click on the link below to complete our quick application form.
Appointment will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Certificate.
We strive to ensure equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from suitably skilled candidates regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexuality or religion.
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As The Avalon Group meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all applicants who are offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check from theDisclosure and Barring Service before the appointment is confirmed.
Criminal records will be taken into account for recruitment purposes only when the conviction is relevant. Having a ‘spent’ or ‘unspent’ conviction will not necessarily bar you from employment – this will depend on thecircumstances and background to your offence(s) and we will consider these on a case by case basis.
The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
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