Support Worker

Job Posted: 26 March 2025

• Contract Term: Permanent
• Location: Ryde, Isle of Wight
• Contract Type: Part time
• Salary: Weekdays at £12.51/hour and weekends at £15.02/hour
• Industries: Health & Social Care

Job description

Are you an empathetic care professional with experience in child development?

Want to take on a challenging, yet highly rewarding role where you can make a real difference? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

Circle Case Management assist our clients to directly employ their own staff team.

One of our clients is now looking to directly employ a part time Care / Support Worker to work in the family setting near Ryde.

The Role:

As a Care / Support Worker, you’ll provide a high level of support to a 15 year old girl with multiple complex needs on a 2:1 basis. The team is small, made up of 5 people.

In this role, you will provide personal care and provide mobility assistance, including using a hoist and a wheelchair. You will also support on days out and potentially holidays. You will be supporting the individual to work towards goals and personal achievements.

Other parts of the job role includes:

• Daily living skills
• Supported walking
• Therapy programmes
• Supporting with family time
• Accessing the community
• Medication
• Recording information
• Cleaning

You will work alongside therapists who provide bespoke training and programmes. These programmes look at the next steps in the individual’s personal development. Our client continues to progress in all aspects of her life.

You’ll carry out all tasks to the highest standards, taking the child and her family’s needs into account.

You will receive supervision, support and training co-ordinated by Circle Case Management. There is the option to gain further qualifications in this role too.

Are you…

• Driven to make a real difference to someone’s life
• An excellent communicator
• Able to work part of a small team
• Sensitive and intuitive with energy to provide trusting, stimulating and varied environment and activities.
• Passionate about supporting and empowering an individual to be independent.

Do you have…

• Care experience
• Experience in child development (desirable)
• Enthusiasm
• A flexible approach
• Driving licence (desirable)

Due to Personal Care requirements there is an occupational requirement to recruit female staff

Other companies may call this role Support Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Assistant, Personal Healthcare Assistant, Personal Care Assistant or Care Worker.

Permanent Contract:

Support worker working 20 hours per week, including two weekend shifts (0900-2000) and five weekday shifts (1330-2000) per fortnight. More hours are available during school holidays and opportunity to pick up cover shifts.

Rate of pay:

Weekdays at £12.51/hour and weekends at £15.02/hour

If you feel you this vacancy is for you, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply via Indeed with full CV.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £12.51-£15.02 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Experience:

• care: 1 year (preferred)

Language:

• English (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person