Home Carer - Reablement - Afternoon/Evenings (Carmarthen & St. Clears)

About the vacancy

• Vacancy ID: 3711
• Organisation: Carmarthenshire County Council
• Number of vacancies: 1
• Contract type: Permanent Part Time
• Location: Carmarthen, St Clears
• Grade: Grade E +8%
• Hourly Rate: £14.78 - £16.54
• Contract Hours: 26 Hours 15 Minutes

Come and join our team "Help people regain their independence—one step at a time."

Are you looking for a role where you can truly make a positive impact on someone’s life? As a Reablement Support Worker, you’ll help individuals—primarily older adults—regain their independence and confidence so they can continue living in their own homes after illness, injury, or a change in circumstances.

No experience? No problem! If you're compassionate, patient, and a great communicator with a can-do attitude, we’ll provide you with full training and ongoing support to succeed in the role. What matters most is your willingness to support people in their journey to recovery and greater independence.

This is your chance to be part of a supportive team that’s focused on empowering people and improving lives, one day at a time. Becoming a Home Carer in our Reablement Team is more than just a job – it’s a truly rewarding experience. You’ll gain invaluable skills, hands-on experience, and the chance to make a real difference in people’s lives every day.

We offer excellent training and development opportunities to help you grow and succeed, whatever your future plans may be. Whether you're looking to build a long-term career in care or want to develop key skills and experience before pursuing further education or a different career path, we’d love to hear from you.

You will have extensive training and support to gain the skills and confidence needed to be a great carer. It’s hard work but rewarding and you will be part of a big organisation with opportunities to progress. You will be welcomed into a Carmarthenshire County Council Home Care Team that wear their uniforms with pride, supporting some of our most vulnerable residents in local communities.

Being a home carer, your duties will include providing personal care (e.g. helping people to bath, wash, dress, use the toilet), meal preparation, giving medication and helping service users with rehabilitation to help them regain their independence.

Home Care workers are required to register with Social Care Wales. We will give you all the support and help you need to become a registered social care worker.

Our rates of pay are highly competitive with similar posts across the Health and Social Care sector. Not only is the hourly rate for guaranteed contracted hours amongst the best paying in Wales, we are also able to offer a range of other benefits such as pay to travel between calls plus 45p per mile for personal car costs, use of pool cars, access to reward schemes, a highly rated pension scheme, generous paid holiday entitlement, maternity & paternity allowances and much more.

Uniforms, bags, personal protective equipment (PPE), and mobile phones are provided to all of our home carers to access their rosters and information about what’s happening in the service and the wider county council, including staff discount schemes.

An Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be requested for this job. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children or adults at risk.

Level 2 - You will need a basic level of conversational Welsh. Reasonable support can be provided on appointment to reach this level.

Closing Date: 30/08/2026, 23:55

The Rewards We’re proud to offer a range of benefits to our staff. Please note that the examples shown are just some of what may be available, and eligibility can vary depending on your role or contract type.

• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement with the option of purchasing additional annual leave
• Access to staff health and wellbeing support
• Personal development and career progression
• Staff discount schemes and other benefits e.g., cycle-to-work scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies

Anonymous Recruitment: We adopt an ‘anonymous recruitment’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made.

We are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.

Please note, we have a legal obligation to consider employees for suitable alternative employment if their posts are at risk; prior consideration will be given to existing employees who meet the essential criteria and are registered on our redeployment pool.

Right to work eligibility: Every employer in the UK must carry out a Right to Work check before a new employee starts work. This is a legal requirement under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 and applies to every worker, regardless of nationality.

Carmarthenshire County Council holds a valid sponsorship licence. However, applicants who require sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route must meet all eligibility criteria set out by the UK Government under the points-based immigration system.

Please note: If you do not meet the eligibility criteria, your application will not progress. If it becomes clear at a later stage that you are not eligible to apply, your application may be withdrawn, or any offer of employment may be retracted.