Reporting to the Registered Manager, you’ll divide your time between hands-on support and leadership or administrative responsibilities, ensuring the service runs smoothly and consistently delivers safe, person-centred care. This is a varied and rewarding role where your input directly supports both the people using the service and their wider support networks.
About the people you’ll be supporting:
You’ll be supporting three female individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism who access the service for short stays. Each person has their own needs, preferences, and routines, which may differ from their home environment. Some may enjoy active outings in the community, while others prefer calm, home-based activities during their stay. Your role is to create a welcoming, structured, and reassuring environment where they feel safe, respected, and able to enjoy their time away from home.
You’ll focus on maintaining continuity of care, adapting quickly to individual support plans, and ensuring each stay is a positive and meaningful experience. At the same time, you’ll be contributing to providing families and carers with confidence and peace of mind while they take a well-earned break.
Where you’ll be working:
Based in Bromley, this full-time role combines shift-based support with dedicated time for leadership and administrative duties. You’ll play a key role in maintaining high standards of care, supporting colleagues, and ensuring the respite service operates effectively and responsively.
As an Agincare employee you’ll enjoy:
• £13.91 per hour
• Refer a friend scheme earn up to £500*
• Outstanding career development
• Fully funded training and career development
• Blue Light card discount package
• Company pension scheme
What is required from you?
A minimum of 12 months on your right to work
Full UK Drivers licence
level 2 in Health and Social Care and willing to work towards level 3
How we achieve our outcomes with the people we support.
As part of your day to day work you will be offering the following;
Encouraging – people to play active roles in the communities in which they live, to encourage independence.
Supporting – Activities of daily Living including social activities, personal care, routines, planning and preparation of meals and budgeting.
Communicating - effectively communicate using people’s chosen methods
Engaging - promoting and motivating people we support to enhance their quality of life
Specialising - supporting people who may need positive behavioural support approaches
Recording - keeping accurate records &reporting changes in health or circumstances of service users to management
Team player – Working as part of a team, as well as being able to work using your own initiative.
About Agincare
Agincare is proudly celebrating 40 years of caring for communities. As a rapidly growing, family-owned care provider with more than 5,500 team members, and expanding every day, we continue to strengthen our services through recent care home developments and the launch of our new not-for-profit Children’s Services. Today, Agincare is one of the UK’s largest care providers, delivering care and nursing homes, home care, extra care, supported living, and live-in care across more than 170 locations nationwide.As a signatory of the Care Leaver Covenant, we are committed to supporting care leavers by guaranteeing either an interview or an informal career conversation. We are proud to support the Armed Forces community through our alliance, offering guaranteed interviews to service leavers and members of the military community.All of our services are regulated by the CQC and Agincare is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences. At present, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.As care is always in high demand, we have a wide range of exciting opportunities available. If this particular role isn’t the right fit for you, we encourage you to explore our other vacancies,
All of our care services are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Equal opportunities are important to us at Agincare and we welcome applications from all.
*Subject to terms and condition
Salary description
£13.91 - £13.91 per hour