Community Care Worker Apprentice
WALTON OUT CARE SERVICES LIMITED
Derbyshire (DE1 1NN)
Closes on Thursday 20 November 2025
Posted on 2 October 2025
Contents
Summary
We are seeking a compassionate and motivated individual to join our team as a Community Care Worker Apprentice. This is a fantastic opportunity to start a rewarding career in health and social care while gaining hands-on experience and working toward a nationally recognized qualification.
- Wage
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£10,158.72 a year
- Training course
- Adult care worker (level 2)
- Hours
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16-40 Hours weekly
Shifts to be confirmed
16 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 27 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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4
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
Care activities can include but are not limited to:
- Supporting Service Users to get up/go to bed and get dressed/undressed
- Supporting Service Users to wash, shower or bath including washing of hair and oral hygiene
- Continence care/bowel care, which requires monitoring to minimise risks, for example care associated with urinary catheters, double incontinence, chronic urinary tract infections and/or the management of constipation
- Helping Service Users to eat their food or take a drink
- Assisting Service Users to make a safe transfer or to mobilise
- Service Users will have some ability to weight bear or move independently
- Supporting Service Users’ social care needs including social interaction and some domestic activities. Domestic activities will be specifically and exclusively for the Service User and may include but are not limited to light housework, preparing meals, washing up after meal preparation, laundry and shopping
- Working towards maintaining a safe environment for Service Users, respecting Service User and family preferences
- Recognising changing mental, physical and emotional needs, and reporting appropriately
- EoLC, where appropriate EoLC will be delivered in partnership with specialist palliative care teams, GPs and other healthcare professionals to identify the support and resources required to meet Service Users’ needs and to anticipate changes in their condition
- Care for Service Users who are unable to communicate reliably their needs at any time and in any way, even when all practicable steps to assist them have been taken. Service Users have to have most of their needs anticipated because of their inability to communicate them
- Observation and monitoring of skin including pressure areas
- Supervised feeding where there may be a risk of aspiration.Care will be delivered in line with SALT guidance
- Care for Service Users receiving nutritional support through feeding tubes (such as PEG, RIG, ) delegated by an appropriate registered health care professional (e.g. a district nurse) or where you have completed the relevant training
- Transferring and mobilising Service Users, where Service Users are unable to weight bear and are unable to assist or cooperate with transfers and/or repositioning
- Careful positioning where Service Users are unable to cooperate and there is loss of muscle tone, pain on movement, or a risk of physical harm
- Care for Service Users with involuntary spasms or contractures placing them or others at risk
- Assisting and facilitating Service Users to take medication. Service Users will not be passive in taking medication, and will have the cognitive capacity to manage their medication and to direct the Care Worker
- Administration of prescribed insulin that has been dispensed via an insulin pen, where Service Users cannot do this themselves
- Non-invasive ventilation, including sleep masks and cough assist machines
- Caring for Service Users with Behaviour that Challenges, where the Risk Assessment document indicates a pattern of behaviour that can be managed by appropriately skilled Care Workers and planned interventions; and
- Care for Service Users who are unable to assess basic risks even with supervision, prompting or assistance, due to cognitive impairment, and who are dependent on others to anticipate their basic needs and to protect them from harm, neglect or health deterioration. Care Workers will respect the fact that the care environment is the Service User’s home. Care Workers will be sensitive to that environment and its contents
Where you'll work
The Old Court House
18- 22 St Peters Churchyard
Derby
Derbyshire
DE1 1NN
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
Adult care worker (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Ask for help from an appropriate person when not confident or skilled in any aspect of their role
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to have a choice about the way they are supported
- Encourage individuals to participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure the individual knows what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Contribute to the on-going development of care/support plans for the individual they support
- Support individuals with cognitive, physical or sensory impairments
- Ensure dignity is at the centre of all work with the individuals they support, their families, carers and advocates
- Demonstrate all work is person centred, accommodating the individual’s needs, wishes and preferences
- Demonstrate empathy (understanding and compassion) for individuals they support
- Demonstrate courage in supporting people in ways that may challenge their personal/cultural beliefs
- Speak clearly and exhibit positive non-verbal communication to individuals, families, carers and advocates
- Use the preferred methods of communication of the individual they support according to their language, culture, sensory needs and their wishes
- Identify and take steps to reduce environmental barriers to communication
- Demonstrate they can check for understanding
- Write clearly and concisely in records and reports
- Keep information safe and confidential according to agreed ways of working
- Recognise potential signs of different forms of abuse
- Respond to concerns of abuse according to agreed ways of working
- Recognise, report and challenge unsafe practices
- Promote the health and wellbeing of the individual they support
- Move people and objects safely
- Demonstrate how to reduce the spread of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
- Demonstrate the promotion of healthy eating and wellbeing by ensuring individuals have access to fluids, food and nutrition
- Demonstrate how to keep people, buildings and themselves safe and secure
- Carry out fire safety procedures when required
- Use risk assessments to support individuals safely
- Recognise symptoms of cognitive impairment, e.g. Dementia, learning disabilities and mental health
- Monitor and report changes in health and wellbeing for individuals they support
- Reflect on your own work practices
- Demonstrate the development of their own skills and knowledge, including core skills in writing, numbers and information technology
- Demonstrate their contribution to their development plan
- Demonstrate ability to work in partnership with others to support the individual
- Identify sources of support when conflicts arise with other people or organisations
- Demonstrate they can work within safe, clear professional boundaries
- Show they can access and apply additional skills required to perform the specific job role competently
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Patience
Other requirements
Working in the community in vulnerable client homes. This will require staff to travel from client to client. So it is necessary for the candidate to have their own vehicle to move around freely as the weather and public transport may not be suitable. Must be a driver with a full UK driving licence.
About this employer
Agency and home care you can rely on. We offer a person centred approach to assist individuals to life independently.
After this apprenticeship
- Ongoing training and development
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000344923.
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Closes on Thursday 20 November 2025
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