Adult Care Worker Apprentice

PENHELLIS COMMUNITY CARE LIMITED

Either Penzance, Hayle, St Ives, Helston, Falmouth Truro or Camborne. (TR13 9AN)

Closes in 19 days (Saturday 10 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 12 November 2024

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Summary

Penhellis Community Care are offering an exciting opportunity to join their dynamic team as an Adult Care Worker apprentice! Gain the knowledge, skills and behaviours to kickstart your career in the Health & Social care sector.

Wage

£23,816 a year

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Travel time is paid at £11.45 an hour. Drivers are also paid £0.35 a mile.

Training course
Adult care worker (level 2)
Hours
Penhellis run Saturday to Friday, each day has a shift pattern of 7am until 2pm and 3 until 10pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Friday 23 May 2025

Duration

1 year

Positions available

10

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Duties will include but are not limited to:

  • Assisting Service users with washing, dressing, applying creams.
  • Assisting with oral and personal care and toileting where necessary.
  • Preparing food and drink and assisting with mealtimes.
  • Light domestic duties within the household.
  • Social interaction.

 

Where you’ll work

Community Care Across Cornwall.
Either Penzance, Hayle, St Ives, Helston, Falmouth Truro or Camborne.
TR13 9AN

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

CORNWALL COLLEGE

Your training course

Adult care worker (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Your training plan

Apprenticeship Standard is Level 2 Adult Care worker.
You will be required to attend St Austell College a day a week as part of your apprenticeship training. You will receive on and off-the-job training and support from an assessor and an Apprenticeship advisor.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 3/D)
  • Maths (grade 3/D)

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
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

Other requirements

Please consider some service users have old fashioned values so may have historical mannerisms.

About this company

Established in 1993, Penhellis Community Care is a Cornish based company regulated and regularly inspected by the Care Quality Commission. We are a family run business with family values, availability is set so provides a healthy work/life balance and due to our size, we are able to give work to localised areas resulting in less travel time and more client time. The area that they cover are either Penzance, Hayle & St Ives, Helston, Falmouth & Truro or Camborne

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After this apprenticeship

Once qualified Penhellis Community care can offer a full-time role to applicants with the opportunity to progress to either a Key or Senior worker.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CORNWALL COLLEGE

Holly

01209616452

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000286958.

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Closes in 19 days (Saturday 10 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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