Support Worker

Support Worker - RG40 Wokingham

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Location: RG40, Wokingham (15-minute walk from Wokingham Station)
Pay Rate: £12.35 per hour + £50 per sleep-in
Hours: 30 per week + overtime opportunities
Shift Pattern: 7:00am-7:00am (includes sleep-in) / Sleep-in 9:30pm-7:00am
Driver Requirement: Full UK driving licence (Auto-friendly)

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We're looking for a confident and compassionate Support Worker to work 1:1 with a young gentleman in his 30s with complex learning disabilities and epilepsy (Buccal medication required). He is a wheelchair user and communicates without words, but expresses himself through smiles, gestures, and his warm personality.

You'll be supporting him to enjoy a full and meaningful life, including:

- Swimming

- Listening to music

- Comedy shows and films

- Church on Sundays

- Coffee mornings on Fridays

This is a lone-working role that requires confidence, initiative, and the ability to build a trusting, positive relationship with both him and his family.

We're looking for someone who is:

- Experienced in health and social care, ideally in lone-working environments

- Friendly, outgoing, and able to bring good humour to each day

- Comfortable with personal care and using hoists (full training provided)

- Confident administering medication (including Buccal)

- Organised, reliable, and calm under pressure

- A driver with a full UK licence (auto-friendly)

You'll play an important role in maintaining strong and respectful communication with his family, who are closely involved and deeply value consistency and collaboration.

- A competitive pay rate with uplift for any overtime you choose to work

- Flexible shift patterns to suit your needs

- 30 days' paid annual leave (including public holidays - pro rata)

- Opportunities for career progression

- Supported 'Learn to Drive' scheme (up to 30 lessons + tests paid for)

- Salary advance scheme - access up to 50% of earned pay before payday

- High Street discounts (retail, hospitality, entertainment, cinema etc.)

- Life Assurance and Company Pension

- Industry-leading training

- Enhanced DBS paid for by us

- An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.

- We welcome applications from everyone who has the right to work in the UK, and value diversity in our workforce.

- If a driving licence is required for this role you will need to produce a copy of the driving licence at the onboarding stage.

- As Disability Confident Leaders, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

- As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 0300 303 9150.

- We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all our recruitment communications.