A little bit about us
Situated in Falkirk, Willow Lodge provides a homely and supportive atmosphere where specialist personalised care is our priority. As part of Meallmore, Scotland’s most trusted care provider, we consistently deliver excellent care in great places to live and work. Join a compassionate team focused on making each day meaningful for our residents.
As a Support Worker with Meallmore you'll use your intuition and empathy to help our residents get the most out of life. You'll work as part of a team to support residents with complex needs, making a big difference to their lives and ensuring they are always treated with dignity and respect.
Salary: £12.60 - £12.82 per hour (depending on experience)
Hours: 37.37 hours per week
Competitive benefits + overtime rates
Your role and responsibilities
- Your role is crucial in creating a safe and supportive environment for our residents to flourish. Prioritising their wellbeing, you will provide personalised care, guidance, and advocacy to help them reach their full potential. Support residents' by delivering tailored care that ensures their overall well-being needs are met.
- On a day-to-day basis, support worker duties could include prompting and assisting with personal care, supporting managing finances, shopping, preparing and cooking meals, domestic duties, scheduling and attending appointments, meeting friends or family, or providing general social and emotional support, the list really is endless.
- Supporting residents to live their best lives as independently as they can, keeping them safe, helping them to make choices, and ensuring that they lead full and rich lives in the care home and beyond.
What we are looking for
- A strong passion for helping individuals live their best lives.
- Patience and a sense of humour and a desire to help others.
- A caring empathetic nature.
- Reliability and trustworthiness.
Ideally you will have an SVQ level 2 or above/equivalent in Health and Social Care, but don’t worry if you don’t, we will fully fund and support you to achieve this.
What’s in it for you?
Our focus is you and your ongoing development. We have a Care Team career pathway to support you to reach your potential, all the way to Care Home Manager if that is your goal.
Working a fulltime job and juggling life is difficult, we know, with us you achieve a fulltime wage with 3 or 4 days off each week. But if that still doesn’t suit let us know, we can be flexible and will do our best to accommodate.
This is a rewarding role, if you’re the sort of person who treats others with respect, listens to their needs, understands their emotions, is warm, kind and honest, then the support worker role could be the career for you.
Please note that all job offers are subject to satisfactory references and Disclosure Scotland Scheme Membership (PVG).
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