Job Description

Transform Lives with the Best Care Team in Blaenau Gwent. As a Care Worker, you will play a crucial role in providing support and care to individuals who need assistance with daily activities due to age, illness, or disability. This role involves helping clients with personal hygiene, meal preparation, medication management, and mobility.

Picture yourself beginning each day with a smile, aware that your assistance enables someone to live more independently and comfortably. Every visit, task, and conversation you have makes a significant impact. You’ll form meaningful relationships and create lasting memories with those you care for. This role is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to bring joy and comfort to someone’s life while also experiencing personal and professional growth.

The duties include:

• Personalised Care Plans: Tailored support for individuals in their own homes.
• Daily Hygiene Assistance: Help with washing, oral care, bathing, and dressing.
• Mobility Support: Assistance with getting up and going to bed.
• Meal Preparation: Encouragement and support during mealtimes.
• Medication Administration: Ensuring health and safety with precise care.
• Household Assistance: Creating a nurturing and supportive living environment.
• Toileting Support: Help with toilet visits and changing incontinence aids.
• Specialised Equipment Use: Safe and respectful movement of clients.
• Accurate Record-Keeping: Maintaining continuity of care.
• Emotional Support and Companionship: Providing comfort and companionship.

We are on a mission to find individuals who can bring the following exceptional interpersonal skills to our team and make a positive impact.

• Empathy: The power to understand and share the feelings of others
• Communication: Effectively sharing and receiving information
• Patience: Staying calm and composed, even when things get a little hectic.
• Dependability: Being someone others can count on – trust is so important.
• Flexibility: Being open to adjusting to the changing needs of clients.
• Compassion: Showing genuine care and concern for those around you.
• Respect: Valuing the dignity and preferences of each individual.

Essential Requirements:

• Car Owner/Driver
• Commit to working every other weekend

We are the Employer of Choice and here’s why!

• We offer a competitive salary of £14.12 per hour on weekdays and £14.68 on weekends, paid weekly (this includes rolled-up holiday pay).
• We’ll cover the cost of your Enhanced DBS check, and Social Care Wales registration fee, and even provide a Blue Light Card—saving you over £70!
• Paid travel and waiting time up to 30 minutes.
• Paid mileage 25p per mile.
• Full-time hours and set shifts, or flexible shift patterns.
• Refer a friend to join our team, and you’ll both receive a £150 bonus—what a win-win! (paid once you have both worked 12 weeks).
• A 5-day in-depth Induction and training programme (paid at national minimum wage once you have worked for us for a minimum of 100 hours).
• The opportunity to buddy with an experienced carer when you start meeting our clients.

Join our team today and start making a significant impact every single day. Your unique contributions will drive real change and help shape a better future. Together, we can make a difference that truly matters.

ND Care & Support is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.