Health and Social Care Apprenticeship (Domaciliary) - Ringwood
HEARTS AT HOME CARE LIMITED
Ringwood (BH24 1SE)
Closes in 21 days (Thursday 30 October 2025)
Posted on 30 September 2025
Contents
Summary
Hearts at Home Care are looking for an Apprentice Support Worker. You will be studying toward your Level 2 Adult Care Apprenticeship. No experience required.
- Wage
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£22,750 a year
- Training course
- Adult care worker (level 2)
- Hours
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08:00 - 14:00 or 16:00 - 22:00 (5 out of 7 Days P/Week).
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 6 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year
- 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
Join our dedicated team as a Home Carer, providing compassionate, personalised support to individuals in their homes. Make a difference in the lives of others while gaining valuable experience and skills. Flexible hours, training provided, and a rewarding career path await!
As a Home Carer, you'll be part of a compassionate and supportive team dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for those in need. You will work closely with healthcare professionals, including nurses and social workers, ensuring a holistic approach to care.
This role not only enriches your caregiving skills but also allows you to make lasting connections, ensuring each day is meaningful.
Your role will include:
- Personalised Care: Learn to implement tailored care plans that respect individual needs and preferences.
- Communication Skills: Enhance your ability to communicate effectively with clients and their families, fostering trust and understanding.
- Health Monitoring: Gain skills in monitoring vital signs and assisting with daily activities like bathing, dressing, and meal preparation.
- Problem-Solving: Develop critical thinking by addressing various challenges that arise in home care settings.
- Emotional Support: Provide a listening ear and companionship, helping clients feel valued and dignified.
Where you'll work
Ringwood Area
Ringwood
BH24 1SE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
PARAGON EDUCATION & SKILLS 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
Paragon Skills is a leading national Apprenticeship training provider, supporting over 4,000 learners and 1,500 organisations. Paragon Skills has some of the highest success and achievement rates in the industry.
It has an Ofsted Grade 2 Good rating and an overall achievement rate of 71.4%, exceeding the national average of 65.6%. Using a blended approach, learners are always at the forefront of our priorities. All learners are assigned a Personal Tutor who will be their main point of contact.
This involves regular catch-ups, check-in emails and calls. Your employer will agree to give you 20% of your working hours solely towards your study.
This will give you every chance to achieve the highest grade possible! On completion of this 12 month apprenticeship you will have gained; Adult Care Worker - Level 2 Apprenticeship.
Requirements
Essential 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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
Other requirements
The closing date guidance, if a successful candidate is found before the advertised dates, the advert will close early.
About this employer
Hearts at Home Care are a family run, business working with local families around Ringwood, Fordingbridge, Downton, Verwood, Wimborne, Bransgore, Christchurch and surrounding areas, that are always branching out further.
After this apprenticeship
Possibility of a full time role after the completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
PARAGON EDUCATION & SKILLS LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000343653.
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Closes in 21 days (Thursday 30 October 2025)
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