Senior Social Care Worker Apprentice
Choice Care Group - Otterbourne House - Winchester
Otterbourne Road (SO21 2BB)
Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 2 September 2025)
Posted on 5 August 2025
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Summary
The role of the Social Care Worker is to support adults with learning disabilities and/or Mental Health Disorders in their day-to-day life, ensuring the people we work with are safe, happy and lead fulfilling lives.
- Wage
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£30,701 a year
- Training course
- Lead adult care worker (level 3)
- Hours
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48 hours per week, on a shift pattern basis including bank holidays, weekends. Exact shifts to be confirmed.
48 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 9 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
As a Senior Social Care Worker Apprentice, you will be working to support adults with learning disabilities and/or Mental Health Disorders in their day-to-day life.
Your roles and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Providing physical care and support to our Residents in accordance with each residents' care plan, respecting their dignity and preferences
- Carry out Personal care including bathing, toileting, dressing and help with feeding
- Administering medication in line with the training received and following the company Medicines Policy
- Assisting and getting involved in Residents' daily activities, hobbies or outgoings
- Keep in line with all Company's policies and procedures and Values
- Get to know the people we support and support them to live a safe, happy and fulfilling life
- Develop an open, honest and considerate working relationship with residents
- To safeguard and promote the welfare of the people we support
- Keep accurate written records, ensuring information is shared appropriately with other staff members whilst maintaining confidentiality and date protection requirements in line with CHOICE CARE policies
- Complete, attend and keep up to date with all necessary training as required
- Work as part of a team that strives to support and lift residents and each other
- Ensure that people we support, and their families are treated with respect, dignity and equality
You will also be entitled to some fantastic benefits such as:
- Training and development
- Wagestream - access to stream up to 30% of your earnings ahead of payday
- Holiday entitlement starting at 20 days, plus 8 bank holidays and an extra day for your Birthday
- Monthly Prize Draw
- Refer a friend and earn £500
- Sick pay
- Blue light card eligibility
At Choice Care Group, as a Social Care Worker Apprentice, you will be working towards the Adult Care Worker Level 2 apprenticeship, over the duration of 15 months, alongside your daily roles and responsibilities.
Where you'll work
Otterbourne Road
SO21 2BB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
Training course
Lead adult care worker (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Take the initiative when working outside normal duties and responsibilities
- Recognise and access help when not confident or skilled in any aspect of the role that they are undertaking
- Implement/facilitate the specialist assessment of social, physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals with cognitive, sensory and physical impairments
- Contribute to the development and ongoing review of care/support plans for the individuals they support
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to exercise choice on how they are supported
- Encourage individuals to actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure that individuals know what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Lead and support colleagues to understand how to establish informed consent when providing care and support
- Guide, mentor and contribute to the development of colleagues in the execution of their duties and responsibilities
- Demonstrate dignity in their working role with individuals they support, their families, carers and other professionals
- Support others to understand the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion in social care
- Exhibit empathy for individuals they support, i.e. understanding and compassion
- Exhibit courage in supporting individuals in ways that may challenge their own cultural and belief systems
- Demonstrate and promote to other workers excellent communication skills including confirmation of understanding to individuals, their families, carers and professionals
- Use and facilitate methods of communication preferred by the individual they support according to the individual’s language, cultural and sensory needs, wishes and preferences
- Take the initiative and reduce environmental barriers to communication
- Demonstrate and ensure that records and reports are written clearly and concisely
- Lead and support others to keep information safe, preserve confidentiality in accordance with agreed ways of working
- Support others, to recognise and respond to potential signs of abuse according to agreed ways of working
- Work in partnership with external agencies to respond to concerns of abuse
- Lead and support others to address conflicts or dilemmas that may arise between an individual’s rights and duty of care
- Recognise, report, respond to and record unsafe practices and encourage others to do so
- Lead and mentor others where appropriate to promote the wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Demonstrate the management of the reduction of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
- Promote healthy eating and wellbeing by supporting individuals to have access to fluids, food and nutrition
- Carry out fire safety procedures and manage others to do so
- Develop risk assessments and use in a person centred way to support individuals safely including moving and assisting people and objects
- Manage, monitor, report and respond to changes in the health and wellbeing of the individuals they support
- Take the initiative to identify and form professional relationships with other people and organisations
- Demonstrate, manage and support self and others to work within safe, clear professional boundaries
- Take the initiative to evaluate and improve own skills and knowledge through reflective practice, supervision, feedback and learning opportunities
- Demonstrate continuous professional development
- Carry out research relevant to individuals’ support needs and share with others
- Demonstrate where necessary mentoring and supervision to others in the workplace
- Demonstrate good team/partnership working skills
- Demonstrate their contribution to robust recruitment and induction processes
Training schedule
Lead Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship Level 3 including Functional Skills in maths and English.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Team Working
- Organisation Skills
About this employer
Choice Care is one of the UK's leading specialist care providers for people with learning disabilities, autism, mental health conditions and complex needs. We have over 30 years' experience of delivering consistently high standards of residential care and supported living services. We believe everyone we support can achieve extraordinary things. Our uniquely individualised approach gives everybody the support they need to progress at their own pace towards a positive, more independent future.
After this apprenticeship
Ongoing training and development, with the opportunity to progress onto higher level qualifications.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335546.
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Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 2 September 2025)
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