Community Support Worker - Corserv Care

Role Purpose: This is an essential role in supporting people in Cornwall to return to or remain in their homes and to be as safe and independent as possible.

What you’ll be doing:

The role of the Support Worker is critical to the success of an individual in meeting their agreed outcomes and to ensuring someone remains in their own home for as long as they would wish and is safe to do so. This will involve working with other professionals, team members, or working alone to carry out the care/reablement plan with the individual, promoting flexibility, dignity, respect, wellbeing, confidence and independence, so that the person has the best quality of life.

You will offer safe and appropriate support to each individual in a person-centred way, complying with and maintain best practice in relation to Health & safety matters, which will include basic risk assessments and the prevention and control of infection. Using an innovative approach to positively support customers to achieve as much independence as they are able to. Complying with the code of conduct, staff handbook and other Corserv Care policies and procedures in order to promote quality standards, values, beliefs and principles of care that respect Human rights.

Your job will be to maintain accurate and factual records as a legal requirement in order to evidence and communicate actions and outcomes effectively to others, maintaining safe working practices as a lone worker or doubled handed working, to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of service users, self and others. Monitoring the health, wellbeing and progress of service users and report any concerns/changes back to management in order to protect and safeguard vulnerable adults.

You will ensure a positive and flexible approach to the variety of tasks within the role, including supporting service users with their daily living skills, personal care, meal preparation and housekeeping. Working with families, healthcare professionals and occupational therapists and supporting service users to access community opportunities. You will operate in accordance with the diverse needs of the community to ensure equal access to services and be responsible for your continuous development and to undertake relevant training as required.

Corserv Care Company Benefits:

Guaranteed Payment: £12.63 per hour. Overtime maybe available.

You are always paid for a full shift, even in the event of a client cancellation.

Time & half for overtime, over 40 hours.

Guaranteed Paid Travel Time & Mileage: 45p per mile. This includes travel, and contact time, for a consistent and worry-free salary. Plus, after probation period of 6 months, you could join our ‘Car Lease Scheme’.

Paid DBS: Corserv Care will pay for your Enhanced DBS.

Pension: A generous pension scheme with employer contribution.

Annual Leave: 31 days (including Bank Holidays). This is pro-rata for part time working patterns, with an option to buy up to 1-week extra leave.

Permanent Workers: Full time and Part time opportunities available (within the working pattern hours, see below).

Bank Worker: opportunities for permanent employees to work in other care services across the organisation, doing additional ad hoc hours on a zero hours contract. A great way to develop your skills and experience.

Hours – Guaranteed Two Week Set Working Pattern: You will have a Week 1 and Week 2 rolling rota to help promote a healthy work-life balance, and for ease of mind.

All rounds start at 7:00 – 14:00, the evening rounds start at 17:00 and finish at the latest 22:00 and working every other weekend is mandatory.

Full training and continuous development provided: Company Induction may include training for the Care Certificate, Moving and Handling, and Basic Life Support. Elearning will cover some mandatory training, aswell as TMobile and care plan training. There is job shadowing, and team and office support available. Management 1 to 1’s and supervision, and annual appraisals. There could also be the opportunity to achieve qualifications such as Level 2 and Level 3 Health and Social Care and career pathways within the organisation.

Equipment: A full uniform, full PPE provided, work SMART phone, Lone working device.

Access to Employee Discount Scheme, Blue Light card and Vectis card: All provide various discount on groceries, household bills, holidays and much more.

We are hiring for our teams across Cornwall: You will join the closest CORNWALL team and base to where you live. Some service users will be in close proximity to your home location and some you will need to travel to. This can be discussed when you are invited to interview.

Safeguarding: We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of all our service users, clients and customers. This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

To apply: It’s really easy to apply for our roles – simply click on the link below where it says APPLY to create a candidate profile, answer the screening questions and upload a CV.

Corserv Care look forward to receiving your details and we will respond to your application. Due to the large number of applications, we will be viewing applicants on a daily basis and we may contact you before the closing date to invite you to an interview. We may also close the advert early due to a high volume of interested applicants.

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you soon!
Please apply using the following link: https://ekzo.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/job/2704/?utm_medium=jobboard&utm_source=indeed

Our ideal candidate:

Are you a compassionate, dedicated and friendly carer with a passion for supporting people? We're looking for Support Workers to join our teams working in our community care services. If you're looking to grow your career with an organisation offering a supportive environment for work-life balance, guaranteed paid hours, travel time and mileage, with company values that encourage collaborative working and employee engagement, we’d love to hear from you.

Essential Skills:

-Current right to work in the UK
-An understanding of reablement and care provision
-Good verbal and written communication skills
-Basic IT Skills
-Empathy and a passion to support others
-Excellent attention to detail
-Great time management
-You must have a FULL DRIVING LICENCE that’s valid to drive in the UK and a vehicle