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Support Worker – Thorpe St Andrews, Norwich

Location: Thorpe St Andrews, Norwich
Part Time – 15 hours per week
£12.35 per hour + 10% weekend enhancement
Overtime paid at +£2.50 per hour

Are you a compassionate, friendly person looking to make a difference in someone’s life? Join our warm and welcoming team at FitzRoy Supported Living in Thorpe St Andrews. We provide care and support to people with learning and physical disabilities, helping them live fulfilled and independent lives.

Shift Patterns:

• 07:00 – 14:30

• 14:00 – 21:30

• 14:45 – 22:15

  
  Includes alternate weekend working

A full manual driving licence is essential, as you’ll be expected to drive our accessible vehicles and support people in the community.

What does a Support Worker do?

Every day is different, but your core role will include:

• Providing

  personalised care and supportbased on individual needs and preferences

• Helping residents take part in a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling lifestyle

• Supporting daily tasks such as personal care, meal preparation, and household chores

• Taking people we support out into the community for activities such as shopping, pub lunches, and days out

• Promoting independence, choice, and dignity at all times

You don’t need previous experience in care – just a great attitude and a desire to support others. We’ll give you all the training and support you need.

What we offer:

• Full, in-depth training – no experience required

• Overtime & weekend enhancements

• 30 days’ annual leave including Bank Holidays (pro rata), increasing with service

• Paid DBS & Life Assurance

• Loyalty awards to recognise your commitment

• Free Blue Light Card – unlock retail & leisure discounts

• Perkbox – high street and online savings

• Health Cash Plan – claim back the cost of optical, dental & more

• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 support including virtual GP and counselling

Salary: £12.30 per hour

Closing Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026

Reference Code: SWPTCORN0126

Hourly Rate: £12.30 per hour
​Overtime Rate: +£2 on usual hourly rate.
​Hours: Part time (16 hours) weekends – with an opportunity for overtime.
​Location:​​St. Austell Cornwall

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Due to our sponsorship obligations, we are unable to offer part-time hours to those requiring sponsorship

Havencare is a forward-thinking and growing charity. We have been making a difference for 35 years, changing the lives of people who have learning disabilities, autism, brain injuries, and other support needs. Our big aims include every person having a home that is right for them, and support for the life they choose.

At Havencare, first and foremost, we are looking for outstanding people who align with our values of Transparency, Quality and Engagement.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, resourceful and forward-thinking person and are excited to be recruiting a Support Worker to support individuals within our service in St. Austell.

About the Role:

This role is diverse and needs someone who can provide support and care to various people throughout their working day.

Each person has their own flat and receives a level of 1:1 support delivery at different times of the day and have access to a shared support hub.

The hub is a unique dimension to Supported Living and you will be supporting individuals as a point of contact, with their planned activities and personal care requirements, as well as moving & handling people and providing distress behaviour support (when required). The role would involve supporting aspects of day-to-day living, personal care and accessing the community. Support with planning meals, medication administration and most importantly developing relationships with family and peers.

We are looking for someone who can engage with different personalities and bring energy, adaptability, and commitment to a support role where every day is different. Yesterday you may have been watching a show at the Theatre in Plymouth. Today you may be supporting with daily living skills and shopping, and tomorrow, you may find yourself in Charlestown drinking coffee.

There is the opportunity to work directly with people depending on your interest and skills.

We also look at a combination of 1:1 support hours with individuals with complex needs and there will be times when you will be part of our core background support and delivering 2:1 support for specific tasks with individuals. You will need to be comfortable with supporting with personal care.

Do you have this flexible and skilful approach to people and support delivery?
Can you deliver communication in variable formats?
Do you understand or want to learn about supporting individualized sensory needs?

If you have said yes to anything you have read, then this could be the job for you, and we would love to hear from you.

Be a part of working in an environment that cares about people supporting people.We are looking for both male and female candidates. A clean driving license would be beneficial.

We will provide you with:

• Quality training and development opportunities to maintain and enhance your skills and knowledge
• Free 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Big financial rewards through our Refer a Friend Scheme
• Vouchers at Christmas, your work anniversary, and your birthday
• Paid DBS
• A generous overtime rate.
• …and more!

If your application is successful, any offer of employment will be subject to:

• A satisfactory Enhanced DBS check and subsequent registration for the DBS Update Service
• 2 acceptable / satisfactory references
• Evidence of eligibility / right to work in the UK
• A full UK driving license is required for this post.

Check out the role brief and assignment information here:  Porthpean Support Worker - Role Brief - 16 hours.pdf 

Apply via the link here:  https://havencarehomesandsupportltd.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=1f0967d3-849e-478c-a379-6814be096608

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Job description

• City:Eastry
• Vacancy type:Part-time
• Salary:£24,829
• Rate:per annum
• Plus:Benefits

Support Worker (6006)

Avenues is a community where people smile, laugh, grow and achieve great things. We know that well-supported people support people well to do their very best for the people we support, and achieve our vision.

Are you are looking for your next social care role, or a change in career and a feel-good reward? If so, then we would love to hear from you!

• Support Worker
• Eastry & Aylesham, Kent
• £24,829 per annum (pro rata)
• 30 hours per week - covering various shifts; 7am – 2pm/4pm, 2pm-10pm, 12pm-4pm/10pm – NO NIGHTS.
• Full UK Driving license required and access to own vehicle due to the nature of the role and location of our services.

We are looking for a Support Worker to support individuals in Eastry and Aylesham with learning disabilities, communication difficulties, behaviours that challenge and pica. The staff team works across both locations throughout the week. The individuals have their own mobility vehicles to ensure daily community access, so someone willing to drive these would be essential!

No two days are the same but your day might look like this!

• Supporting our people to be engaged in all day to day living activities, including making full use of their community and beyond.
• Supporting our people with social activities, and connecting with family and friends.
• Supporting the management of our people’s finances.
• Keeping our people’s home clean and fresh, and going shopping.
• Providing, and encouraging, personal care.
• And enjoying what you do!

Experience in social care is not essential, we provide a full range of accredited and award-winning training programmes at no cost to yourself, including the Health and Social Care Diploma that will really support your career progression.

Benefits you can expect!  

• Early Pay – ability to access your earnings more frequently if you wish.
• Paid enhanced DBS.
• Flexible working.
• Paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Access to high quality training that supports your career development.
• Contributory pension scheme with life assurance.
• Shopping discounts via Blue Light Card and The Benefits website.
• Recommend a friend scheme - earn up to £500.
• Free and confidential 24/7 access to the health portal, counselling and support.

**T&Cs apply **

As part of our commitment to the “Disability Confident Scheme”, candidates who declare a disability, and meet the key criteria for this role, will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview stage.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.

Support Worker

Support Worker

Job reference:005089

Salary:£12.30 per hour

Closing date:30/01/2026

Location:Flitwick

Job Description

Looking for a worthwhile job with the hours that work for you ?

Join us as a Support Worker, this is a part time role working 22.5 hours per week.

So what would you be doing?

You will provide invaluable support to five people with learning disabilities who live in their own home in Flitwick. So what would you be doing? Who better to tell you than David* Susan* Stephen Sharon* and Paul*. We asked them what they want from their new support worker. Here's what they had to say.

Things that are important to us about our Support Workers :-

• Talk to me, keep me company, listen to me
• Be kind and friendly
• Have fun, laugh and joke with me.
• Let me have my own space when I want it

Support me to ;-

• Make a good cup of coffee
• Phone my family, keeping in contact is really important to me..
• Go to the pub to see my friends and cheer me on when I sing karaoke.
• Keep my money and my things safe

Things you need to know about us:-

• I like the house to be very clean and tidy, I enjoy doing my bit but need support.
• I'm a smoker and need some support in managing my smoking and buying my cigarettes on a Friday.
• I like to have things to look forward to. Help me find out what's on and plan trips.
• Routine is very important to me. I need support to understand when things change and why they are changing
• Be patient and give me time to understand and do things
• We are all very unique individuals with strong personalities, likes and dislikes
• Talk to us about the things we like and our special interests - james bond, music, trucks, & filming,.
• Things we quite like when we do choose to go out are…. shopping, parties, pubs, karaoke, cinema, lunch out, visiting family, theatre, going on holidays
• We are able to make a lot of choices for ourselves, support us to do this.

We are hoping new staff might have new ideas on things we might like to do…

As you've probably worked out they are all full of life and fun to be with, could you support them to lead lives that make sense to them?

* names changed for privacy

"Please note, we are currently unable to offer sponsorships as we await further guidance from the Home Office. Applications requiring sponsorship cannot be considered at this time. We appreciate your understanding."

About you

Experience isn’t necessary. If you have the right attitude, good customer service skills, share our values and are willing to learn, you’re likely to be a great fit.

We are looking for people who celebrate differences, and we strive to make all our staff feel included, valued and respected.

You will need to be a driver with a manual licence as you will be required to drive the service vehicle.

About us
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.

We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.

Training and Development

At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.

But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge.

Pay and Rewards

We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

• Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
• Workplace Pension scheme – MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benef...

Dim/23066

£13.04 Per Hour

New Milton

England, Hampshire, South East England

Permanent

Hours per week: 37.5

Closing Date: February 06, 2026

We are looking for Support Workers in New Milton to cover various shifts from full time and part time to suit you.  We offer fantastic benefits, training and a great team environment.   

We are looking for people who share our values and can support someone to have the life they want to live. We get involved with exciting activities such as swimming, bowling and cinema and access the community visiting local places of interest and enjoying lunches out at various venues. We also like cooking and gardening and enjoying time outdoors as well as Karaoke inside. Our families and friends play a big part in our lives so we also require support with maintaining those relationships.

Dimensions are one of the country’s largest not-for-profit organisations supporting people with learning difficulties, autism, behaviours of distress and complex needs and we are driven by our values. People with learning disabilities and their families are at the heart of everything we do.

Dimensions is a leading social care provider in England and Wales, supporting people with learning disabilities and autism

Dimensions is proud to be one of very few social care organisations that are accredited by the Great Places To Work programme in 2026 – now 6 years in a row!

Applications will be shortlisted on receipt and interviews will be held until the posts are filled

Your rewards

A full list of rewards can be found in the job description attachedApply now

• 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
• As Disability Confident Leaders , we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy - Dimensions has been awarded this symbol by Jobcentre Plus to recognise our commitment towards the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees
• As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 03003039150.
• We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all of our recruitment communications.

Dim/23063

£12.92 Per Hour

Ash Vale

England, South East England, Surrey

Permanent

Hours per week: 37.5

Closing Date: February 05, 2026

Support Worker – Ash Vale / Mytchett (GU16)

Full-Time and Part-Time Roles Available £12.92 per hour + £50 sleep-in allowance

If you’re looking for a role where every day feels meaningful — and no two days look the same — this could be the perfect fit. At Dimensions, we’re all about supporting people to live the life they choose, in the comfort of their own home. If that speaks to you, we’d love to welcome you as a Support Worker in Mytchett.

What the role is all about:

You’ll be supporting five adults aged 40–70, all of whom have learning disabilities and each with their own personalities, routines, and interests. Your role is to empower their independence, champion their choices, and help them enjoy the things that make life feel good.

Here’s a glimpse into what they love:

• Long scenic drives — especially for one lady who enjoys the journey just as much as the destination
• Meals out at the pub
• Arts and crafts at home
• Relaxed days at Frimley Lodge Park
• Dreaming up and going on holidays

If you enjoy gentle routines, shared laughter, and supporting people to do the things they love, you’ll feel right at home here.

What we’re offering:

• £12.92 per hour
• £50 per sleep-in shift
• Full-time or part-time hours
• Shift patterns of 07:00–15:00 and 14:30–22:00
• One sleep-in shift per week

What we’re looking for:

People who are kind, patient, and genuinely interested in supporting others to live well. Experience is welcome, but your values matter most.

Benefits for Support Workers choosing to work with Dimensions include:

• 30 days annual leave pro rata with the option to buy and sell leave
• If you refer a friend to us and if they’re successfully employed, you’ll receive a £500 bonus
• We offer paid training and options to further develop your career through funded accredited courses
• Bike to Work scheme and discounts on meals, shopping, entertainment, gym membership and mobile phone tariffs
• We’re a values-driven organisation that puts people with learning disabilities and their families at the heart of everything we do
• We care about our colleagues and are passionate about our comprehensive well-being strategy and staff listening network
• Dimensions are proud to be one of very few social care organisations that have been recognised by the Great Places to Work programme every year since 2019

Other important information:

• Applications are reviewed upon receipt and interviews will take place until the positions are filled
• An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions
• We welcome applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK and value diversity in our workforce
• 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 03003039150 if you require adjustments
• British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos are available for all of our recruitment communications
• Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010