Support Worker – Kidderminster (DY10)
Full Time – 37.5 hours per week
£12.85 per hour + £50 per sleep-in shift
Driver Requirement: Full UK Manual Driving Licence
About Dimensions
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About the role
We’re looking for a compassionate, proactive and team-focused Support Worker to join our service in Kidderminster (DY10). You’ll be supporting four gentlemen and one lady aged 20s–60s with learning disabilities and complex health needs.
This is a lively and engaging home where teamwork, consistency and positivity make a real difference. You’ll work as part of a two-person team on each shift, helping to create a safe, supportive and stimulating environment.
Who you will be supporting
The people you’ll support live active and fulfilling lives and enjoy a variety of activities, including:
- Staying active: Swimming (you’ll need to be confident in the pool), football and day trips
- Creative activities: Arts & crafts, music sessions and sensory activities at home
- Social experiences: Theatre visits, day centres and trips to local parks
Support needs include PEG feeding, epilepsy support and non-verbal communication, requiring a patient, attentive and consistent approach.
What you will be doing
This is a varied, hands-on role where every day is different. You’ll support with:
- Promoting independence and choice
- Providing full personal care with dignity and respect
- Supporting meal preparation and daily living tasks
- Administering medication, including PEG feeding and epilepsy support
- Using hoists and manual handling equipment safely
- Supporting individuals who communicate without words
- Encouraging engagement in activities and routines
- Working collaboratively with colleagues to maintain high-quality care
Shift patterns
This is a 37.5-hour role with a variety of shifts, including:
- 7:00am – 2:30pm
- 7:30am – 3:00pm
- 8:00am – 3:30pm
- 2:00pm – 9:30pm
- 3:00pm – 10:30pm
- 3:30pm – 7:30pm
- Sleep-ins: 10:30pm – 7:00am (£50 paid to sleep)
You’ll typically complete 1–2 sleep-ins per week.
Rotas are provided in advance to support a healthy work–life balance.
About you
You’ll be a great fit if you are:
- Caring, patient and values-driven
- A strong communicator, especially with non-verbal individuals
- Positive, adaptable and open to learning
- Comfortable supporting complex health needs
- Confident working as part of a team
- Reliable, organised and proactive
- Comfortable supporting swimming and hydro-style activities
- A confident manual driver
Experience is helpful but not essential — full training is provided.
Rewards that make a difference
- A competitive pay rate with uplift for overtime you choose to work
- Flexible shift patterns to suit your needs
- 30 days’ paid annual leave (including public holidays – pro rata)
- Opportunities for career progression
- Supported Learn to Drive scheme (up to 30 lessons + tests paid for)
- Salary advance scheme – access up to 50% of earned pay before payday
- High Street discounts (retail, entertainment, gyms, dining)
- Life Assurance and Company Pension
- Industry-leading training
- Enhanced DBS paid for by us
Apply now
- 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.
- If a driving licence is required for this role you will need to produce a copy at the onboarding stage.
- As Disability Confident Leaders, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
- As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 0300 303 9150.
- We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all of our recruitment communications.
