Female Support Worker - Driver essential

Location: Homecare across Bethesda area and Bangor, Gwynedd

Hours:  We have both part time (minimum 10 hours per week) and full time hours (maximum 37 hours per week), please speak to us about the hours you are looking to do. Your shift pattern will include weekends but no sleep ins. Typical shifts are:

7am to 2.30pm

4pm to to 10pm

Salary: £12.74 per hour and our travel expenses is paid 45p per mile

Contract: Permanent

Interviews: We are looking to interview as soon as possible so would encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity

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What you’ll be doing:

This is a brand-new service for Cartrefi so you’ll be joining us at an exciting time to really help us shape this new caring support service.

In this role, you’ll actively support individuals in making their own choices and set their own goals — whether it’s everyday decisions like what to wear, eat, or do, or something bigger such as where to live, how to manage their finances, or where to go on holiday.

As a trusted Female Support Worker, you'll empower people to follow through on these choices, including taking part in structured activities that build confidence and develop new skills. You’ll also offer practical support to help them meet responsibilities like paying bills, maintaining their homes, being good neighbours, and staying connected with friends and family.

Your goal is to make everyday remarkable through enhancing well-being and focusing on the small, meaningful moments that bring joy and purpose. By offering this kind of person-centred support every day, this truly is a fun and rewarding role for the right person.

Who we are looking for:

No experience required as full training is provided. We’d love to hear from you if you:

have patience and empathy
can support a person with their intimate personal care with respect and dignity
have strong communication and teamwork skills
are able to speak on behalf of others as well as to a range of professional people
have good written skills and the ability to record events with empathy and meaning
have a full driving licence - essential for transporting individuals to appointments and activities
have access to your own car and happy to use this for transporting people we support to and from activities as well as obtaining business insurance for your vehicle for which we pay 45p per mile to cover this
have Welsh language skills (preferred) so you can effectively communicate with Welsh-speaking service users and meet their cultural and linguistic needs.
Our Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities to achieve qualifications
25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service with the option to buy and sell leave
Benevolent Fund, confidential financial wellbeing resource available to our colleagues
Health and Wellbeing programme - 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
Refer a Friend - Referral Programme
Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Benefits and discount platform
Eligibility for Blue Light discount card
And much much more…..
About Us
Our mission is to build a better future by focusing on people with learning disabilities and their families. We strive to be a great support provider for the individuals and families that we support, our employees, our partners and funders, and the communities in which we work. We’re a Cooperative, which means putting people at the heart of our decision making and support. You can find out more about this here

Our Values
We’ve made a promise to the people we support, setting out our commitments to them and how they can expect to be supported, our values include:

Honesty
Trust
Kindness
Respect
Wellbeing