There are various job roles in social care. It depends what you’re interested in, who you want to work with and environment you want to work in.
Care Assistant
You’ll support people with all aspects of their day to day living, including social and physical activities, personal care, mobility and meal times.
Care Workers can work in care home, residential or nursing settings, in people’s own homes or in the community. Care Workers who work in the community often involves travelling to different people’s houses.
Support Worker
A Support Worker helps vulnerable people to live happy and independent lives. Support Workers are required to support individual service users to attain personal independence, choice and responsibility.
You could be supporting individuals with Learning Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Mental Health and Challenging behaviours.
Duties can include supporting people with social and physical activities, booking and going with people to appointments and helping with personal care such as support with showering and dressing.