Hours: 20.5 per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Service Area: Adult Social Care, Complex and Specialist Commissioning
Department: Residential Services
Come join our team providing care and support to individuals living in our Residential & Extra Care adult services. We are looking for Support Workers to join our team Community Resource Centre in Twerton, Bath.
Cleeve Court is a modern Community Resource Centre (CRC). It has 2 floors which are registered to provide care and support for 45 residents needing residential and dementia care.
The successful applicants will support the residents with some or all aspects of daily living, including personal care, activities and maintaining contact with family and friends when required. You will help with planning and organising activities for residents, helping residents to maintain personal hygiene and assist residents and their families in the provision of care during illness and at end of life.
We are very flexible and offer a variety of shift patterns which include a mixture of 8-2pm, 8-3pm, 3-10pm, 4-9pm. All staff work every other weekend - early and late.
Cleeve Court is classified as a Dementia Care Matters Butterfly Service® home which has achieved Level 4 on the Qualitative Observational audit.
Positive remarks made in the recent Dementia Care Matters audit include:
“Cleeve Court has a focused, driven and passionate manager”
“A team who are caring, kind and attentive; a team comfortable sharing moments and time with people who live here”
“Mutual friendship is evident between the people who live there”
If you would like to join us in a Support Worker role at Cleeve Court, please apply now – no experience is necessary as full training is provided. This is a challenging but rewarding role, so a commitment to deliver quality care is essential.
In return we offer an excellent range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, paid enhancements for weekend/bank holiday/night working, a contributory pension scheme, a planned induction programme, extensive learning and development opportunities, health and wellbeing programmes, flexible working patterns.
Interested to find out more?
If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact Maggie Dance on 01225 396 685.
To apply
Please use the online application facility. For further information on applying please see “Application Form Help” page on the Jobs website.
The Council is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applications for job-share, part-time and flexible working arrangements are welcomed and will be considered in line with business needs.
Safeguarding Statement:
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.
As this post involves working within one of these groups, we will require a Disclosure & Barring Service check and/or subscription to the DBS online service. The suitability of all prospective employees or volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.
Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates