Care Worker Level 3

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 Hours 

Worker Type: Onsite Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £27,711 (Level one) rising to £30,060 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location: The Willows Day Service, Ambergate Road, Beechdale, Nottingham, NG8 3GD

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best. 

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham.  So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

Care Workers provide safe and appropriate personalised support to citizens according to their assessed needs. This includes writing and maintaining individual person centred care plans and completing assessments and regular reviews. They are also expected to plan, organise and facilitate individual or group activities / interventions in order to support citizens to maximise independence and confidence, as appropriate.

Care Workers are expected to work and cooperate with other professionals, as well as citizens and their meaningful others, to ensure a shared approach to care and support and continuity of care and treatment.

Care Workers at Level 3 should maintain an up to date awareness, knowledge and understanding of relevant policies, procedures and legislative requirements relevant to the role, client group and Adult Social Care in general. Care Workers at Level 3 are required to support Care Worker level 2s and 1s to provide safe and appropriate personalised care and support to citizens, dealing with Safeguarding incidents if needed.
 

About You

The ideal candidate will have: 

• Ability to assess social care and health needs and develop, implement, maintain and update Person Centred Care Plans, and effective administrative skills and ability to utilise and update various manual and IT systems, analysing and using data effectively
• Excellent oral and written communication skills (including facilitating reviews, engagement, report writing, maintaining good quality records, letters, difficult conversations etc.) Awareness of Health & Safety requirements relevant to the post and completion of risk assessments as required.
• Knowledge and understanding of the rights, needs and feelings of vulnerable adults from diverse social and cultural backgrounds.
• Good numeracy and literacy skills equivalent to Level 1 literacy Skills (Qualifications and Credit Framework) or equivalent qualification
• NVQ/ QCF 2/3 or equivalent in Health and Social Care, or willingness to work towards this.

- A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

Please note that this role does not meet the relevant salary threshold criteria for Skilled Visa sponsorship, and therefore applicants requiring sponsorship are unable to apply.

You can find the job description for this post here 

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it.  We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact April Hamlin by telephone on 0115 915 2471 or by email at April.hamlin@nottinghamcity.gov.uk 

Closing Date: 29th May 2025

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: TBC

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