Start your day knowing you will make a difference.
We are recruiting x2 full time Support Workers to join us in Ipswich, Suffolk (IP1)
Rate of pay: £10.71 increasing to £11.00 per hour from 1st September/ Earn up to £27,617.74.
Full time/ Permanent at 37.5 hours per week.
Join us and create more opportunities for the people we support across Suffolk. You will have the satisfaction of knowing you are changing someone's life every day, and in return we will help your career be the best it can be with our excellent colleague benefits and development opportunities.
Dimensions is proud to be one of very few social care organisations that are accredited by the Great Places to Work programme in 2023 - now 5 years in a row!
Employee benefits:
- Free DBS check
- Advance: access to some of your earned pay ahead of your regular payday
- Free financial education: access to a range of tips, videos and tools for budgeting and saving.
- A comprehensive employee assistance programme
- Access to the Blue Light Card (lots of discounts available)
- 30 days annual leave entitlement (including bank holidays), rising to 35 days.
- £500 bonus for recommending a friend to work for us if they are employed.
- Paid training with financial bonuses for completion of awards and diplomas
- We will pay for and support you to complete the Care Certificate, a requirement for people working in the health and social care sector.
- 50% contribution to the cost of learning to drive, subject to certain criteria.
- Discounts and cashback on shopping and days out with our colleague benefits scheme
What the role entails
Do you enjoy spending your free time outdoors? Whether that is exploring local walking routes or visiting England's beautiful coastline? Or you have an interest in music or films, and you visit the cinema regularly to watch the latest movies. If so, apply and train in house to become our newest support worker where you will be supporting three gentlemen with similar interests.
By becoming our newest support worker, you can expect day trips out. The gentlemen we support love going for long walks, swimming sessions at their local pool, picnics in the park and going to have a boogie at Zumba! But we would like our support workers to bring creativity and innovative ideas into our teams.
Additionally, you role will be to encourage independence with their personal care, provide encouragement, prompts and support to complete tasks within the home and guidance to support with maintaining a healthy diet. This will include meal planning, and shopping for healthy food items.
There is no such thing as a 'typical' support worker. Colleagues range from school leavers who want a job that involves helping people, to those who want a change of career, to experienced support workers wanting to work for an organisation that truly places the people it supports at the heart of all it does, to those coming to the end of a completely different career who want to give something back to their community.
At Dimensions, we value a work / life balance so you will receive your rota at least 4 weeks in advance. Shifts patterns are 7:30am-2pm / 2pm -10pm with sleep-ins.
Apply online now and we will be in touch for a chat!
We recruit based on values so whilst previous experience is always welcome, it is certainly not essential as full specialist training and support will be provided. We just need to come with an open mind, shared values, and an eagerness to learn.
"The current pay rate of £10.71 per hour will be increasing to £11.00 per hour from 1st September.'
- An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.
- We welcome applications from everyone who has the right to work in the UK, and value diversity in our workforce
- As Disability Confident Leaders , we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy - Dimensions has been awarded this symbol by Jobcentre Plus to recognise our commitment towards the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees
- As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 03003039150.
- We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all of our recruitment communications.
- We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
