Female Support Worker
Location: Sheffield S35
Position: Full Time - 30hrs per week
Salary: £13.78
Full UK/EU Manual or Automatic Driving Licence Required
FULL TRAINING PROVIDED
At Dimensions, every day is a chance to make a real difference. As a Female Support Worker, you’ll bring purpose and stability to someone’s life – helping to enjoy the routines and moments that matter most to the person. Recognised as a Great Place to Work for seven years running, we’ll support you to grow, feel valued, and take pride in the difference you make every single day.
We are looking for thoughtful, caring and inspiring people to join our team of support workers in Sheffield, S35 to support a young lady in her late 20s, who loves nothing more than keeping fit and active. She enjoys a range of activities from cooking, baking, arts and crafts, swimming, cycling, and going out for long walks to being a bit of an adrenalin junkie and loves a good theme park.
She is looking for very active people to join her team, so if you are very much into health, fitness and all types of physical activities this could be the ideal role for you. Our lady also exhibits behaviours of distress so the ideal candidate would need to be resilient but also calm-mannered.
This lady has SCIP intervention requirements as displays behaviours of distress.
The Role
- Supporting with day to day activities on either a 1-1 or 2-1 basis
- Supporting and managing with her emotional and behaviour distresses
- Taking her out into the community and day centres
- Being heavily involved in physical activities, walking, swimming, cycling
- Promoting and encouraging independence
Shifts patterns are 7.30am – 7.30pm on full time basis
Applications will be shortlisted on receipt and interviews will be held until the posts are filled.
About you
We believe anyone has the potential be a great support worker, no matter your background, as long as you share our values; respect, partnership, courage, ambition and integrity – that’s why we recruit based on values and not skills or experience. For more information on our values based recruitment click here.
Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010. In this context, "gender" refers to the sex legally assigned to an individual.
Rewards that make a difference
- A competitive payrate with uplift for overtime you chose to work
- Flexible shift patterns to suit your needs
- 30 days paid Annual Leave (including public holidays – pro rata)
- Opportunities forcareer progression
- Supported ‘Learn to Drive’ scheme (up to 30 driving lessons, 1 theory/practical test - all paid for by us)
- We offer a salary advance scheme where you can access up to 50% of the money you've earned before payday.
- High Street Discounts – Retail and Entertainment (supermarkets, hospitality, pubs, cinema etc.)
- Life Assurance and Company Pension
- Industry leading training
- Enhanced DBS paid for by us
Apply now
Applications are reviewed upon receipt and interviews will take place until the positions are filled
An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.
We welcome applications from everyone with 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
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 if you require adjustments
British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos are available for all of our recruitment communications
