Support Worker

As a Support Worker in Vale of Glamorgan, you’ll help make the everyday remarkable for the people we support.

We are dedicated to supporting adults to live a fulfilled and enriched life in the community, as a Support Worker, you can play a vital role in this.

Role: Support Worker

Location: Vale of Glamorgan

Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday bus driver and support worker 8.00am-5pm.Your shift pattern may include weekends and sleep-ins

Salary: £13.59 per hour and our sleep-in shifts at £60 per night and our travel expenses is paid 45p per mile 

Contract: Permanent

Click here to learn more about growing your career at Cartrefi Cymru.

What you’ll be doing:

Cartrefi Cymru provides a welcoming and supportive Day Service for older people in the Western Vale of Glamorgan who may be experiencing age-related frailty, chronic illness, disability, dementia, or social isolation. Based at Illtyd House in Llantwit Major, the service promotes independence, reduces social isolation, supports community connection, and provides valuable respite for families and carers.

The service offers transport, freshly prepared meals, refreshments, and a variety of person-centred activities including music, games, arts and crafts, and social interaction, with plans to expand outdoor and community-based opportunities. Limited spaces are currently available Monday to Friday.

In this role, you’ll support individuals to make their own choices, achieve personal goals, and maintain independence both within the service and the wider community. You’ll encourage participation in meaningful activities, help build confidence and life skills, and provide practical support tailored to individual needs — all while making everyday remarkable through positive and person-centred support.

This role also includes responsibilities as a Bus Driver and Support Worker on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 8:00am–5:00pm. You’ll be required to safely drive the service minibus to transport the people we support to and from the Day Service and community activities, therefore a suitable driving licence is essential.

No experience required as full training is provided. We’d love to hear from you if you:

• have patience and empathy
• can support a person with their intimate personal care with respect and dignity 
• have strong communication and teamwork skills
• are able to speak on behalf of others as well as to a range of professional people
• have good written skills and the ability to record events with empathy and meaning
• have a full driving licence - essential for transporting individuals to appointments and activities
• have access to your own car and happy to use this for transporting people we support to and from activities as well as obtaining business insurance for your vehicle for which we pay 45p per mile to cover this
• You must be comfortable to drive a minibus to transfer people we support to and from activities

Our Benefits

• Training and development opportunities
• 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service with the option to buy and sell leave
• Health and Wellbeing programme - 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Company pension
• Benefits and discount platform 
• Blue Light discount card

About Us
Our mission is to build a better future by focusing on people with learning disabilities and their families We’re a Cooperative, which means putting people at the heart of our decision making and support. You can find out more about this here

Our Values
We’ve made a promise to the people we support, setting out our commitments to them and how they can expect to be supported, our values include:

Honesty
Trust
Kindness
Respect
Wellbeing

Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early so we would encourage you to apply early for this position.