Job Description

M and D Care Ltd are looking for caring, enthusiastic, and committed individuals to join our team as Support Workers across our care homes and community services. If you're a natural problem-solver with a passion for helping others, we'd love to hear from you.

About the Role:

Living in the community can present challenges, and your role will be to support individuals in building meaningful opportunities and living fulfilling lives. You'll help service users access activities such as holidays, day trips, bowling, cinema visits, meals out, shopping, and maintaining safe, clean, and personalised homes.

Who We Support:

We work with adults who have a wide range of needs, including learning disabilities, mental health conditions, physical disabilities, ADHD, Autism, Dementia, and substance misuse.

Benefits of Support Worker / Care Worker

Double time for festive bank holidays Early access to a proportion of monthly earnings via EarlyPay App Refer a Friend bonus (you can earn up to 500 per successful recommendation) Free DBS check Cost of compulsory Social Care Wales registration fee paid by M&D Care Comprehensive training Career progression 28 days holiday including bank holidays each year (pro rata for part time employees)

Role and Responsibilities:

You will become part of our incredible team, helping to deliver emotional and practical care and support for vulnerable adults and transforming their lives on a daily basis. You will be involved in providing quality care for vulnerable adults within a residential setting, you will ensure the highest quality of care is provided to the people supported through their person-centred care plans. You will be working on a rota basis, which may include early starts, late finishes and day and night shifts and weekend working. You will offer focused support with a range of tasks, including personal care, preparing meals, administering medicine, shopping etc. You will be involved in facilitating activities which are person-centred, which promote their dignity, independence and well-being. You will need to be committed to providing an excellent level of care for vulnerable people with mental health and learning disabilities You will need to be able to work independently - this could involve taking sole responsibility for a person we support, ensuring their safety and health are fulfilled. You will need to work within the regulatory requirements as identified within Social Care Wales and Care Inspectorate Wales. You will need to be over 18 to apply for this role. We are looking for both male and female support workers / care workers for this role due to the needs of the service

Values and behaviours required:

Treat people with dignity and respect Good at working with others Committed to quality care and improving lives Willing to learn and develop Spending time listening to people to get to know them and their needs Respect people's right to make their own choices and decisions Committed to working as part of a team Give people your full attention and help people when they need it most

Additional information for the role of Support Worker / Care Worker

We offer a variety of contracted hours (22.5 to 45 hours), shift patterns will vary and you will be required to work weekends and night shifts, as required, on a rota basis. If not already qualified you will be enabled to undertake a QCF level 2 in Health & Social Care qualification as part of the role after successful completion of the probationary period. You will be fully supported in achieving this. Experience in care is not essential as full training will be given.

About M&D Care

M&D Care are an established family oriented business, which is run by a passionate team of professionals who deliver specialist, complex and bespoke care services throughout South West Wales for people with Learning Disability, Physical Disability and Mental Health needs. We believe that everyone should be given the opportunity to succeed and to achieve their goals and aspirations in life however big or small these may be.

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Job Type: Permanent

Pay: 12.21-12.60 per hour

Expected hours: 22.5 - 45 per week

Benefits:

Employee discount Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Referral programme
Schedule:

Day shift Night shift
Licence/Certification:

Driving Licence (preferred)
Work Location: In person