Reference CW260825
- Area
- Torbay
- Contract
- Full time
- Hours
- Minimum 35 hours a week
- Pattern
- Business-led, including some evenings and weekends
- Pay
- £12.91 an hour
- Driving
- Licence and use of a car needed
We are a family-run care provider in Torbay, and we are building a small team around a new piece of person-centred work. If you want to support people with physical disabilities and mental health needs to get more out of their own lives, this is a genuinely good job to have.
This role is open to female applicants only. That is a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010: the people being supported need personal care, and have asked for female workers.
What you would be doing
Supporting people in their own homes and out in the community, working to their care plan, so that they keep as much control over their own lives as possible. Day to day that means:
- Building independence, rather than doing things for people who can do them themselves
- Getting out to community activities and events, and helping someone get past whatever is stopping them
- Personal care: washing, dressing, bathing and toileting, done at the person’s pace
- Prompting, monitoring or administering medication, and recording it properly
- Preparing and cooking meals, cleaning, shopping and help with paying bills
- Going with people to outings, hospital appointments and GP appointments
- Keeping accurate records, and reporting any change or concern promptly
- Working with family and friends who care unpaid, because they usually know the person best
What we ask
- Kind, reliable and compassionate. That matters more here than experience
- Full-time availability. The rota is business-led and includes some evenings and weekends
- A driving licence and your own car
- The judgement to protect someone’s dignity and privacy, and to act promptly if you think they are at risk of neglect or abuse
What we offer
- £12.91 an hour
- Fully funded training, including all NVQ levels, and a career path if you want one
- A free company iPhone
- Fuel card, available on request
- Mileage allowance
- Paid holidays
- Refer a friend and earn up to £250
- Induction training covering health and safety, first aid, and moving and handling, with further specific training offered
- Supervision, appraisal and ongoing development, not just a first week and good luck
You would report to the Senior Care Worker and the Deputy Manager. If you have not done care work before, most of our applicants have not either. Ring and ask what a week actually looks like — an informal chat is genuinely fine.
How to apply
You do not need a CV. The application form asks you everything we need, and it opens with this role already filled in. If you would rather talk it through first, that is genuinely fine — ring and say so.
The same on every role
Health and safety
As an employee of MKJ Care Services you have a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of anyone else affected by what you do at work, and to co-operate with us in meeting health and safety law. That includes not interfering with or misusing anything provided in the interests of health, safety or welfare, and reporting accidents, incidents and unsafe practice to the right person.
Data protection
You must respect the confidentiality of information at all times, in line with the Data Protection Act. Where the role requires you to obtain, process or use information held on a computer or a phone, it must be done fairly and lawfully, held only for the registered purpose, and disclosed only to authorised people or organisations as instructed by the Deputy Manager or Operations Director. Our data protection policy sets this out in full.
Equal opportunities
MKJ Care Services is committed to anti-discriminatory policies and practices, and we ask everyone who works here to contribute positively to promoting them. Support is delivered in a way that is sensitive to each person’s culture, disability, race, age, sexuality, marital or civil partnership status, transgender status, religion or belief.
Confidentiality
You are required to observe strict and complete confidentiality about information you obtain in the course of your duties, as set out in our policies and procedures. That covers the people we support and their families, and MKJ Care Services itself.
Scope of this description
This describes the role as it stands now. It is not an exhaustive list of duties, and the detail may vary as demands and priorities change. Any substantial change is made in consultation with the person doing the job.
Know someone who would be good at this?
Most of the best people we take on were told about us by someone they know — and if they join us, you could get up to £250 through our refer-a-friend scheme.