Home Care Support Worker Home Care

Salary

£14.59 - £14.82 plus enhancements for weekends and Bank Holidays

Contractual hours

Basis

Fixed Hours

Package

We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Job category/type

Adult Social Care

Date posted

21/05/2026

Job reference

REQ0000980

Home Care Support Workers - Independence at Home (Reablement)

We have gaps in both our Day and Evening rotas that we would like to fill with new colleagues. We have more opportunities for evening work.

Day (Various shifts starting at 7am ending at noon, 1pm and 2pm)

Evening (Shifts start at 5pm and end at either 8pm or 10pm)

The service is 7-day and operates throughout the year.

We operate on a fixed two-week rolling rota for Home Care Support Workers. If you are successfully, we will agree an individual two-week working pattern with you. This will set your contract hours.

You should expect that your rota will include some weekends, and there will be some working on bank holidays, Christmas and New Year holiday days.

All staff are employed and expected to work across the City as needed.

Interviews to be held: TBC

There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Jean Windsor, or Julian Seaborne, Operations Managers on 01273 296479 or email ***email_hidden*** or [email protected]

Job Introduction

Are you looking to make a difference to someone’s life? Are you caring, reliable and good with people?

Could you care for someone else?

If so, then we would like to hear from you.

Our Independence at Home team provides short-term care and support, mainly to older people within the city, to help them re-gain their confidence and independence so they can stay living in their own homes where they are most comfortable and happy.

Our last CQC Inspection rated our service as “Good”. It highlighted that “the service was well led” and staff felt that managers were “approachable and very supportive”.

Our aim is to provide the highest quality of care to the people who rely on us and we put their needs at the heart of everything we do. But we can’t continue to provide excellent care in the community without more dedicated, skilled and motivated carers.

Working as part of a dedicated team led by an experienced manager you will provide support to a wide range of people including individuals who have a physical disability, learning difficulty, sensory loss, mental health issues, dementia or a complex combination of needs.

This will include:

• personal care such as washing, bathing, dressing and toileting
• assistance with moving around their home
• help with shopping and preparing meals
• emotional and social support
• helping with medication
• liaising with other health care services and family members
• support to regain confidence with daily living skills.

You don’t need any formal qualifications, but previous care experience would be an advantage. You will need to:

• have a caring, flexible and professional approach to your wo
• have good written and number skill
• get on well with people from a variety of backgrounds
• work well as part of a team
• work on your own initiative
• be willing to undertake the high-quality training we will provide for you

As part of your training, we will also give you the opportunity to shadow one of our experienced carers for a short period until you are able to undertake care calls on your own.

We can offer you:

• a higher rate of pay than the average market rate
• enhancements for working in the evenings, at weekends and on bank holidays
• a career average pension scheme
• generous holiday (Pro rata)
• paid travel time between calls
• paid mileage expenses
• regular supervision meetings
• a range of other staff benefits
• free uniform and personal protective equipment
• opportunities for career progression including support to enable you, if you wish, to study for the QCF diplomas in Health & Social Care (levels 2 and 3)

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

How to apply

Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

AI advice for candidates

We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants’ responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Enhanced DBS : Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.