Floating Care Apprentice - UK Wide
THE SAFE HOUSE BD LIMITED
Recruiting nationally
Closes in 9 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 28 March 2025
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Summary
As a Floating Care Apprentice, you will play a vital role in providing compassionate and person-centred care to individuals in various locations across the UK. This unique apprenticeship offers an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on experience in diverse care settings while exploring different regions of the country.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Lead practitioner in adult care (level 4)
- Hours
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Shifts will vary.
Our supported living services are:
9:30am - 9:30pm
9:30pm - 9:30am
some services have sleep ins.
Our Home care varies dependent on the clients needs.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 1 May 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
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
- Providing Personal Care: Assisting individuals with personal hygiene, dressing, and mobility
Supporting:
- Daily Living: Helping with meal preparation, medication administration (under supervision), and household tasks.
- Building Relationships: Developing positive and trusting relationships with service users, their families, and other professionals
- Following Care Plans: Understanding and implementing individualised care plans to meet specific needs and preferences.
- Monitoring and Reporting: Observing and reporting any changes in service users' conditions or concerns
- Maintaining a Safe Environment: Ensuring the safety and well-being of service users at all times
- Travelling and Adapting: Being prepared to travel to different locations across the UK, often with short notice, and adapting to new environments and routines
- Participating in Training and Development: Actively engaging in apprenticeship training and development activities
- Adhering to Policies and Procedures: Following organisational policies, procedures, and relevant legislation
Where you’ll work
We currently have three services that you will work across, Luton - LU3 Milton Keynes - NN12 London - NW2 West Sussex - BN6 We are expanding fairly rapidly so more locations will be added in time.
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
PARAGON EDUCATION & SKILLS LIMITED
Your training course
Lead practitioner in adult care (level 4)
Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)
Course contents
- Apply professional judgement, standards and codes of practice relevant to the role
- Develop and sustain professional relationships with others
- Identify and access specialist help required to carry out role
- Lead the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory and physical impairments
- Mentor colleagues to encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Contribute to the implementation of processes to implement and review support plans
- Provide leadership and mentoring to others for whom they are responsible
- Apply risk management policies
- Contribute to the quality assurance of the service provided
- Implement a culture that actively promotes dignity and respects diversity and inclusion
- Model high levels of empathy, understanding and compassion
- Model effective communication skills
- Identify and address barriers to communication using appropriate resources
- Apply organisational processes to record, maintain, store and share information
- Provide meaningful information to support people to make informed choices
- Apply and support others to adhere to safeguarding procedures
- Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to safeguarding concerns
- Apply person centred approaches to promote health and wellbeing
- Collaborate with external partners to achieve best outcomes in health and wellbeing
- Evaluate own practice and access identified development opportunities
- Evaluate the effectiveness of own leadership, mentoring and supervision skills and take steps to enhance performance
- Value individuals to develop effective teams in order to achieve best outcomes
- Contribute to the development of an effective learning culture
- Lead robust, values-based recruitment and selection processes
- Contribute to the induction process by developing the knowledge of individuals within their role
- Lead and support others in professional development through personal development plans, supervision, reflective practice, research, evidence based practice and access to learning and development opportunities
Your training plan
- Adult Care Worker Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard
- On the job training with protected admin/study time
Requirements
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
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
Other requirements
At Safehouse Care, we are dedicated to providing support to individuals facing a diverse range of challenges. This includes working alongside people who experience mental health difficulties, substance misuse, self-harm, autism spectrum conditions, learning disabilities, and physical disabilities.
About this company
The Safehouse BD – Known as Safehouse Care are a UK wide care provider; we provide supported living and home care. We work with adults from the age of 18 and work with a range of needs
https://safehousecare.org/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Free meals, snacks and drinks when working in our supported living services.
After this apprenticeship
- Aim to carry on your qaulifications and become a senior/manager withen the company
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE SAFE HOUSE BD LIMITED
Natasha Cokayne
natasha@safehousecare.org
07462641115
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000312617.
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Closes in 9 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025 at 11:59pm)
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