Apprentice Community Care Assistant
CLIFTON HOMECARE LIMITED
LYTHAM ST ANNES, FY8 1PF
Closes in 22 days (Monday 30 September)
Posted on 2 April 2024
Contents
Summary
This role involves working with people; supporting them to live life to the full. You will work with experienced care professionals in different settings; therefore no 2 days are the same. Clifton Homecare is family run and is a national living wage employer. You will receive excellent training and support to complete your apprenticeship.
- Annual wage
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Competitive
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Hourly rates (prior to April 2024 uplift) are between £12.00-£14.00 per hour plus 45p per mile travelled via car (unless company car used). Rates will vary dependent on age and experience.
- Training course
- Adult care worker (level 2)
- Hours
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This role will involve shift working; shifts are usually 07.00-14.00 or 16.00 -22.00. All employees are supported with alternate weekend working and every 4 weeks a long weekend off is accommodated.
30 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Tuesday 1 October
- Duration
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1 Year 1 Month
- Positions available
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3
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
The Apprenticeship role will include:
- Supporting clients to maintain their personal hygiene and appearance
- Supporting clients to manage their own medications safely, where this is not possible we administer medications
- Provide vital companionship to clients who frequently feel lonely and isolated due to living alone.
An average week could look like:
Laura is a Community Care Assistant for Clifton Homecare. She regularly tells people she loves her job. She comes to work each day looking forward to the day ahead and feels she is making a difference to people's lives and goes home feeling satsified. Clifton Homecare are looking for care workers like Laura who are just as passionate.
Laura often tells people that she loves her job. She often says it's the most rewarding job she has ever had and wishes she had discovered social care sooner. She says:
"It's very rewarding. There's never a day goes by when you're not laughing. When you bond with clients, it's like going to see a family member."
The Apprenticeship role will involve working 30-40 hours a week. There is no need to drive but applicants must be willling to learn to drive over the first 12 months of their apprenticeship, or upon turning 17 years of age.
Where you’ll work
30 ORCHARD ROAD
LYTHAM ST ANNES
FY8 1PF
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
TRAINING WORKS (NW) LTD
Your training course
Adult care worker (level 2)
Equal to GCSE
Course contents
Your training plan
- A range of training courses are provided by our internal trainers, these will be mainly face to face with som e-learning courses to also complete. All new starters receive a comprehensive induction period, consisting of classroom based and in the field training. All new starters are supported with mentoring sessions also.
- The level 2 Adult care worker Apprenticeship takes approximately 12 months to complete and will consist of assignment type work; some of which can be completed via audio and observation. Off the job learning will include a variety of training such as face to face classroom delivery, 1:1 developmental sessions, webinar attendance, conference attendance and much more.
- Functional Skills in maths and English, if required.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade C/ 4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Caring
- Compassionate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Dedicated
- Willing to learn
Other requirements
This vacancy involves working in the community. The applicant will be required to learn to drive during the first 12 months of the Apprenticeship or when they turn 17 years of age.
About this company
Clifton Homecare is a Domiciliary Care provider; caring for people living in their own homes. In 2016 and 2019 Clifton Homecare was rated Outstanding by CQC. The team's aim being to use the extensive experience gained over the years to provide outstanding flexible care to clients in their own homes to enable them to safely remain living at home for as long as possible.
http://www.cliftonhcl.co.uk (opens in new tab)
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Level 3 - Lead Adult Care Worker, through to Level 4, 5 and level 6 and 7 (Foundation Degree - Assistant Practitioner); Senior care worker, Assistant Manager, Registered Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Mentor and Lead Mentor.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CLIFTON HOMECARE LIMITED
CAROLINE COSH
cliftonhcl@gmail.com
01253 722945
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000241279.
Apply now
Closes in 22 days (Monday 30 September)
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