Job summary
As a Driver/ Assistant Support Worker you will join a team that focuses on delivering a person-centred, specialist support to service users with significant complex health needs. The service delivers group and 1:1 activities focused around key areas such as independent living skills, social skills and support with sensory needs.
As a Driver/ Assistant Support Worker, the working hours are typically Monday to Friday between 8am and 5pm. You will have a dual role where part of your job will be to drive a minibus to support service users to travel to and from our service at the beginning and end of the day. Outside of any driving duties, you will help the day service as an assistant support worker. As an assistant support worker, you will help provide person-centred support, as described in the service users care plan, while the individual is at the day service.
Main duties of the job
Your days will be busy, rewarding, varied and task-orientated and include: transporting our service users to and from the Day Service at the start and end of the day, joining the variety of groups and activities with our service users to support them to get the most out of their day. You will be based primarily in Carrswood Day Service, Twerton, Bath, which is a modern, light building, purpose built to meet the needs of those who access our service.
Please refer to the Job Description for further information on the main responsibilities for this role.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued as a Driver / Assistant Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £21,000-21,630 and access to our group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
You will have a "D1" on your driving licence for this role to enable you to drive our 16 seat minibuses.
Ideally you will have some experience in care or supporting adults with learning disabilities or additional needs generally. More importantly you will have a willingness to learn and support our individuals who access the service with all aspects of their care, including personal care.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will feel valued as a Driver / Assistant Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £21,000-21,630 and access to our group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
You will have a "D1" on your driving licence for this role to enable you to drive our 16 seat minibuses.
Ideally you will have some experience in care or supporting adults with learning disabilities or additional needs generally. More importantly you will have a willingness to learn and support our individuals who access the service with all aspects of their care, including personal care.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
