Business

Charity

Training provided

Level 2 Adult care worker 

Pay details

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

Hours

35 hours per week

Requirements

  • GCSE maths and English at grades 9-4
  • Communication skills
  • Ability to empathise and advocate for the needs of people with autism and/or learning disabilities
  • A positive and flexible attitude to work and working hours
  • Tact, diplomacy, empathy 
  • IT skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Physical fitness

Minimum age

16

Description

Dy-to-day responsibilities include:

  • Ensuring the welfare and development of all service users by providing the highest standards of care and making sure that appropriate attention is paid to their spiritual, physical, cultural, social, educational, and recreational needs
  • Promoting and implementing inclusive, person centred care planning practices
  • Supporting service users to plan their support
  • Supporting service users in a non-judgemental manner 
  • Supporting service users to access activities which have been identified to help people achieve their goals and outcomes
  • Facilitating communication in keeping with individuals’ preferred methods of communicating
  • Helping service users to develop records of their achievements and goals in a format which is right for them
  • Promoting personal liberty, choice, inclusion and decision making 
  • Completing all appropriate recording formats including health and safety records, service user records, medication 
  • Ensuring the safe administration and storage of medication in line with LAS policies and procedures
  • Recognising changes with regards to physical, social and emotional well-being and bringing these to the attention of your line manager

How to apply

Please apply on the Find an apprenticeship website.