Support Worker, Caregiver

Support Worker Salary: £13.45 - £13.50 per hour (depending on experience)

Hours:

34.5 hours per week Competitive benefits + overtime rates

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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 or4 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).

Set on Windsor Road in Falkirk,
Willow Lodge is a purpose-built, 33-bed care home providing specialist, high-quality, adult care and recovery-focused mental health support. Through compassion, understanding, and encouragement, you'll help our residents embrace new possibilities, take meaningful steps and believe in their potential. Join our dedicated team where every conversation and moment of support can celebrate progress, make a lasting difference and transform lives. Be part of something truly special - making a difference one moment at a time.