Female Support Worker

Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (IP33)

This is more than just a job - it's a chance to help someone lead a full and meaningful life while developing your own skills and career.

About the Person You'll Support

You will be working 2:1 with a highly active and enthusiastic young woman. She loves to get out into the community and enjoys a range of activities that you'll be supporting her with, such as:

• Swimming
• Bowling
• Arts and crafts
• Watching movies
• Listening to music and singing
• Trips to the beach

In addition to all these activities, she maintains a strong connection with her family. She visits them on weekends, once a month, and goes on holidays, which are incredibly important to her. Your role will include assisting her with these family visits and ensuring she enjoys quality time with her loved ones.

What You'll Be Doing

While the role is full of fun and variety, it's also important to understand that she requires patience and understanding. You'll need to be calm, compassionate, and adaptable to support her.

You will also assist with:

• Medication administration - Emergency medication may be required, and you'll receive full training on how to manage this.
• Meal preparation - While she can help stir food, she requires daily assistance with food prep, ensuring meals are prepared safely.
• Personal care - This is mostly prompting, including putting soap on a sponge and encouraging her in the shower.

In return for your hard work and dedication, you'll have the chance to build meaningful relationships, develop your skills, and enjoy the satisfaction of knowing you're helping someone live their best life. There is also free parking at the home, and it's preferred that you'll be able to drive (a manual car) to accompany her on outings.

You don't need extensive experience to apply for this role - what matters most is your enthusiasm, empathy, and willingness to learn. If this sounds like the perfect role for you, we'd love to hear from you!

• We offer up to 35 days annual leave pro rata with the option to buy and sell leave.
• If you refer a friend to us and if they're successfully employed, you'll receive a £500 bonus.
• We offer paid training and options to further develop your career through funded accredited courses.
• Bike to Work scheme and discounts on meals, shopping, entertainment, gym membership and mobile phone tariffs.
• We're a values-driven organisation that puts people with learning disabilities and their families at the heart of everything we do.
• We care about our colleagues and are passionate about our comprehensive well-being strategy and staff listening network.
• Dimensions are proud to be one of very few social care organisations that have been recognised by the Great Places to Work programme in 2019-2024.

• An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.
• Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010.
• 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.