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Roles are now available via our award-winning programme!

We are looking for people with the right values and transferable skills to support care homes, nursing homes and learning disability residential homes.

Care Assistant & Support Worker roles are available now.

We have a five-week initial online or face-to-face training programme in place to get you ready for a 24-hour working interview with a reputable social care employer keen to welcome you into their team.

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Video transcript

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hi I'm Ben matinson I'm the deputy

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manager at WinCo Nursing Home in

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timperley

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one of the biggest turnovers for us is

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often new stuff because they don't

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understand what it is to work in Social

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care

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I found the program in my experience all

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the guys have got the right values and I

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think that comes from the process

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because you have to go through certain

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training element just to get into the

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into the door sort of cuts out the

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people that are in there for the wrong

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reasons some called Michael Morlock I'm

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28 and I'm a care assistant at Winkle

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nursing home

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ask for help with the job center and

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they recommended various courses and

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then one of them was step into care and

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I thought because of what I went through

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with my grandma it I seemed to relate to

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that quite a bit so that's why you know

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I signed up for the course

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thank you to come in usually introduce

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yourself to management we have a walk

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around the building familiarize them

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with the processes and then they go into

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a shadowing sort of orientation period

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where they work with two senior members

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of staff and they spend those 24 hours

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just getting to understand the role

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really

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um the Practical side of what the job

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consists of and then following that it

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comes to the job offer it helps you

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because it takes a bit of the anxiety

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away it gives you a bit of you know just

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knowledge to know what what to expect

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really because obviously like even

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things like you know giving someone All

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Care or you know content care or even

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you know bathing someone you'd never

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really think about that before you you

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know actually start the job where it's

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with the course you come to terms with

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it a bit more beforehand so I think it's

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very helpful hi my name is

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what worker

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worker

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and I went to the job center

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and I was looking for a job

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and

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they asked me what kind of job and I

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didn't like it what kind of job they

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were for me so I said I want to do some

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courses

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and then

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I choose to be a support worker

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teach me everything and I put in

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practice what I learned with her I put

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it in practice here working with the

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step into care team yeah it's been

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brilliant it's they're here to help they

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help with costing you know the DBS it

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just makes your life so much easier

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my name's Wayne Smith and I through

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Stephanie care I found a job in care a

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company called Aspire working with

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learning disabilities

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I found the course absolutely fantastic

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it gave me a massive Insight on what to

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expect

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and the placement itself was fantastic I

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knew within two hours that I could do

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that job uh and I'm I'm still doing it

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after two years what I appreciate about

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the candidates that have come through

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the program

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is there values

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um they're here for the right reasons

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they're passionate they want to learn

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and they see it as a career opportunity

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yeah I would recommend it to anyone

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who's just a caring person in nature you

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know if you feel like you like to help

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others out you're definitely you'll be

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fine and care

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right nothing is right in this

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absolutely fantastic because you are

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doing a great job when you have a great

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time yeah I love getting up for work now

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I'm going to work and when I walked out

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of that door at the end of the shift of

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thinking wow what a difference I've made

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today and for me that's the most

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important part making a difference of

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people's lives

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