Reporting to: Registered Manager
Salary: £12.73 – £14.30 per hours
Location: Dover
Working Hours: Part Time (30 hours) Full Time (45 hours)
About the Role
We are looking for inspiring, friendly and caring individuals to join our fabulous care teams in dedicated Residential locations.
Focusing on the care-needs, you’ll be assisting with the health-care, medication and personal care of the people we support, promoting their decisions and enabling them to live life to the fullest. This may involve preparing food, general cleaning duties or even spending the day out and about pursuing their interests including cinema trips, scenic walks or a day-trip to a theme park!
As a Support Worker with LDC Care Co, you will be trained to provide high-quality care via our fully paid, comprehensive two-week induction programme at the Hub in Dover, but your learning does not stop there. LDC Care Co is committed to lifelong learning and has its own LDC Academy and provided with opportunities to develop your career in social care.
What Can We Offer You?
We provide a supportive forward-thinking workplace culture, filled with new and exciting opportunities.
As such, we offer the following as standard:
- Sleep-In rates of £67.50 per night
- Casual dress
- £100 Join Us Incentive after successful completion of your probation.
- Blue Light card – discounts on hundreds of high street products and services
- Early Pay Service enabling you to take withdrawals on your accrued earnings.
- Comprehensive two-week face to face Induction programme.
- Further specialist courses to support your role within adult social care.
- Fully funded courses in social care.
- Automatic enrolment into NOW Pensions.
- Genuine and achievable opportunities to develop your career in adult social care.
Day-to-day support from a friendly team of colleagues and highly experienced Registered Managers.
The Person
Ideally, you may have experience working within care settings and supporting adults with similar needs.
You may already hold formal qualifications in the care sector and want to now progress your career.
Or you may be completely new and would like to start a career in the social care sector, all you need is the passion to ensure that their voice is heard for them.
The main thing we need to see from you is that you are a kind and caring individual, with strong ethical values which demonstrate an ability to support someone through the good times and the bad. Working in care can be tough, but the reward is huge.
About Us
At LDC Care Co we provide support to highly complex adults and it is what we do best. The Company is family run and has been in operation for the last 27 years employing nearly 600 staff and growing in East Kent providing specialist care in more than 75 residential homes and supported living settings.
Everything we do centres around our 4 Core Values: C A R E - Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. They are the foundations that everything else is built on and have been critical in us becoming the Company we are today.
With our multiple Care Quality Commission (CQC) ratings of ‘Outstanding’. We are proud of our ability to provide high quality care to individuals who have struggled to maintain other mainstream placements or have spent time within secure settings and reintegrate them back into the wider community to pursue social, personal or vocational development opportunities.
Pay: £12.73-£14.30 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Paid training
- Store discount
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Dover, Kent: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you require Sponsorship?
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
