Location: Tunbridge Wells TN3
Job Type: Part-Time/Full-Time
About the Role:
We are recruiting Support Workers to support a warm, funny, and wonderfully spirited 64-year-old lady living in the Tunbridge Wells area. This is a genuinely rewarding role within a close-knit, long-standing team who are passionate about making every day as full and meaningful as possible. Days can include trips to the theatre and cinema, baking, gardening, hydrotherapy sessions, community outings, and high quality 1:1 care and support.
If you have a positive attitude, a good sense of humour, and the ability to think on your feet, this could be a brilliant role for you.
Pay:
- Weekday hourly rate: £16.20
- Weekend hourly rate: £18.29
- Sleep-in weekday rate: £88.82 per night
- Sleep-in weekend rate: £99.27 per night
- Bank Holiday hourly rate: £24.30
- Christmas day hourly rate: £32.40
Benefits:
- Four-weekly pay
- 5.6 weeks annual leave pro rata
- Regular supervision sessions
- Proactive case management input and support
- Continuous training and professional development
- Opportunity to support on local holidays and short breaks by agreement
- Clear written procedures, an on-call structure, and a highly experienced team are in place to support you
Shift Patterns:
There are various shifts lengths available, including 8-hour, 16-hour and 24-hour shifts (with a sleep in). Shifts work on a 4-week rota. We welcome both part-time and full time applicants. Please let us know what your availability to cover shifts is.
About Our Client:
Our client is a 64-year-old woman living independently in her own adapted home. Following a brain injury sustained in 2002, she requires 1:1 support at all times including personal care, manual handling (wheelchair transfers, walking aids, and pool hoist), medication administration, and daily living support.
She has a brilliant sense of humour and a colourful turn of phrase to match. Candidates must be comfortable with occasional profane language. She loves going to the theatre and cinema, feeding the ducks, growing her own vegetables, baking, arts and crafts, hydrotherapy in her home hydropool, and UK holidays with her care team. She also takes part in a range of therapist-led activities. She enjoys chatty company but also values her quiet time, someone who can read the room is a real asset.
Our client can occasionally experience episodes of frustration or distress. Behaviours can include verbal outbursts and some self-harm behaviour. Incidents are infrequent, roughly a handful per year, and are managed through a clear on-call structure, written procedures, and ABC recording. You will be fully trained and supported throughout.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Providing one to one support
- Providing full personal care including washing, bathing, oral hygiene, dressing, toileting, and grooming
- Supporting with manual handling including wheelchair transfers, walking aids, and pool hoist transfers
- Administering and recording medication in line with the care plan and MAR charts
- Assisting with meal planning and preparation and adhering to a low fat and low sugar diet
- Supporting the client to engage in hobbies, community activities and therapist-led programmes
- Assisting in the pool to support hydrotherapy sessions
- Assisting with light household duties, and light gardening
- Completing daily support notes, ABC recording forms, and accurate handovers
- Driving the client in her own vehicle (automatic VW Caddy)
- Working collaboratively with the team, therapists, and case management
- Attending team meetings and mandatory training
Candidate Requirements:
Essential Criteria:
- Availability to cover set shifts
- Driver required
- Full UK or European licence and have not incurred any at-fault accidents in the last 3 years, or have not incurred any motoring convictions in the past five years (for vehicle insurance cover)
- Calm under pressure with strong common sense
- Comfortable working with a client who uses strong language
- Willing to get into the pool to support with hydrotherapy
- Physically able to assist with manual handling including pool hoist transfers
- Willingness to learn and positive attitude
Preferred
- Experience in brain injury, complex care, or social care
- Flexible and open to travel within the UK to support the client on holiday
Application Process:
This role is restricted to female applicants only. Under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010, being female is a genuine occupational requirement for this role due to the intimate personal care needs of our client.
We invite interested candidates to apply. We are committed to inclusive and respectful recruitment. Shortlisted candidates may have an informal meeting with the client in a relaxed setting to ensure compatibility.
Note: We adhere to SAFE hiring practices, ensuring the welfare of vulnerable individuals. An enhanced criminal record check will be conducted.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: £16.20-£24.30 per hour
Application question(s):
- Have you previously been dismissed from a role in health and social care? (YES/NO)
- Will you be able to provide references for all of your previous care roles? (if not why not?)
- Please can you provide the best email to contact you on?
- Where do you currently live? (we cannot reveal the client's address but can provide you with the drive time )
- On being successful, are you okay with us contacting your references and sharing your details with the employer? (YES/NO)
- Are you willing to get into the pool to support with hydrotherapy? (YES/NO)
- Have you had any at-fault accidents in the last 3 years or motoring convictions in the last 5 years (for vehicle insurance cover) YES/NO?
- What is your weekly availability to cover shifts?
Experience:
- Living in the UK: 5 years (required)
- care: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- right to work full time in the UK without sponsorship (required)
- Full UK or European Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person
