Reablement Worker

Leeds Community Wellbeing Service - Seacroft, Tingley and Woodlesford

Permanent, full time (37.5hpw)

Earn £12.60 per hour (£24, 638 per annum)

Great benefits including 34 days leave and a Health Cash Plan!

Home, a place where you belong

Join us as a Care Worker (known internally as reablement worker), where you’ll support older people aged 55+ with varying care and support needs to live independently in their own home with peace of mind.

You’ll enjoy excellent benefits such as generous annual leave, health and wellbeing support and paid volunteering days. With our strong reputation for inclusivity, development, and colleague wellbeing Home Group provides both purpose and progression in a supportive workplace culture.

You can be service based or work across 3 different services, no day is the same.

Typical day as a Reablement Worker

• Support our customers in their own apartment who have a range of support needs including frailty and dementia.

• Help to regain or maintain independence and live well in their own home by carrying out every day daily living activities by themselves.

• Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.

• Supporting customers who have more complex needs with personal care including bathing, toileting and getting dressed.

• Assisting in the delivery of tasks based on our customers personal support plans, making them feel valued, respected and maintaining their dignity.

You’ll go home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better, here, at one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK!

You bring

• Care Certificate or willing to complete within the first 12 weeks of employment

• A Level 2 Diploma in Care or equivalent experience working in a personal care environment or willing to study for a Level 2 Diploma in Care.

• Passion to support our customers to live their best life.

• Experience of working on own initiative, remaining calm under pressure, and having a resilient approach.

• You’ll have experience of risk management, supporting and empowering customers through their care plans.

• Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs.

We can't sponsor you due to certificate limits. We review this regularly.

Our team

Our fabulous team are super passionate about supporting customers to reach their goals and celebrating their achievements. To us we’re not just a team we’re a ‘work family’.

You’ll report to Melissa our Registered Manager, working alongside our Care and Support team and our housing management teams too. Our team includes a Client Service Manager, Lead Reablement Workers and Reablement Workers.

Job details

• We provide 24-hour support, so you’ll work on a rota basis with shifts between 07: 00am and 10: 00pm, taking your turn to work days, evenings, weekends, and bank holidays. Example shifts include 07: 00-14: 45, 17: 00-21: 00 and 14: 00-22: 00.

• Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.

• Although you’ll work shifts, we do get together regularly for training and team meetings.

• Able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.

• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave, pro-rated (including bank holidays and a “me day”)

• Paid time off for volunteering

• Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary)

• Save up to £1140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies

• Career path with development and an excellent training package

• Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Reablement Worker Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. You can even learn more about our benefits on our website.

Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk.