Apprentice - Health and Social Care (Customer Only)

Apprentice - Health and Social Care (Customer Only)

15 months apprenticeship, full time (37.5 hpw), typically Monday to Friday 9-5 with a flexible approach

Salary from £10.00 to £12.21 per hour, dependant on your age, plus an industry recognised qualification that we pay for, and brilliant benefits including health cash plan!    

Brandon, Consett, Shotton Colliery

We can’t offer a CoS for this role

Home, a place where you belong

Are you looking to start your career in Health and Social Care and gain hands‑on experience while working towards a nationally recognised qualification? Do you enjoy supporting people, learning new skills and being part of a team that makes a real difference? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity.

We’re offering one apprenticeship role within our Co Durham based, Ofsted Registered Accommodation Services, with opportunities to gain experience across different parts of our wider offer, which operates across three locations: Brandon, Shotton Colliery and Consett. This means you can choose the location that works best for you in terms of travel, preference or accessibility.

Our award‑winning apprenticeship programme has helped many people begin their career in care, and we welcome applications from individuals of all ages and backgrounds. As long as you’re currently a Home Group customer (or living in a Home Group property), you can apply.

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave, pro-rated (including bank holidays and a “me day”)

• Paid time off for volunteering

• Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary)

• Save up to £1140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies

• Career path with development and an excellent training package

• Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses

What you’ll do

• Our supported accommodation services provide tailored support to vulnerable young people and adults aged 16–35, helping them build independence, develop life skills and work towards their personal goals.

• We are a diverse, well-balanced team, bringing a valuable and effective mix of life and work experiences together, to help build customer skills and confidence and meet their goal to achieve independent living. 

• You’ll also have a mentor from within the team, someone who does a similar role, who will offer additional guidance and support. 

• Work with an expert apprenticeship delivery partner to attend all learning and achieve an industry recognised qualification. 

• Getting support from an experienced tutor as well as your own team. You will have access to the learning materials and practical experience to make a success of your apprenticeship and achieve your qualification.  

Why join us

This is more than a job – it’s a place where you feel valued. With our learning and development offer, and support from friendly colleagues, you’ll make a real difference every day! If you’re ready to leave behind the ordinary, do something that really matters. Be part of one of the UK’s top 10 Great Places to Work!

You have

• You are a current or previous customer of Home Group or currently live in a Home Group property. 

• Ideally you have GCSEs in English and maths, but don’t worry if not, you will complete these as part of your apprenticeship learning. 

• We’re a high-tech organisation so we need you to have good IT skills or be keen and willing to learn all of the basics such as outlook and Teams, plus some specific tools relevant to the role.

• You’ll have a passion for people from all different walks of life and will enjoy getting to know and understand their barriers, goals and aspirations in life.

• With a curious and interested mind, you’ll want to ask lots of questions to learn everything you can during your apprenticeship and our team are keen and ready to pass on their knowledge to help you develop your skills.

• A genuine interest in and commitment to learning and personal and professional development – this is a learning role after all!  

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work! 

The practical bits

• You will be doing a level 2 Adult Care Work qualification, and this will last 15 months. You’ll gain stacks of experience to help you launch your career. 

• Many of our apprentices secure a permanent role with us so who knows where you’ll end up in the future!

• It’s important you’re at work when our team are around to support you so, although hours of work are usually 9am-5pm, flexibility is important. We’ll also ask you to work different days or times if there is something happening you can learn from, so that your experience is broad and diverse.

• You will have built in time (20% of your working week) for study and support for working towards your qualification.

• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check and we pay for that. 

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our  Adult Care Worker L2 Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Roles can close early, so don’t wait.

For reasonable adjustments email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk