So you’re considering a career in support work? That’s great.
We know you’ll have seen bad stories in the media about care work – we’ve seen them too.
We’d like to tell you that in our experience, not-for-profit support providers such as Dimensions are full of genuinely caring people who want to make a positive difference to others. You’ll have an extremely rewarding career here.
“Supporting people is a huge privilege and, as a former support worker at Dimensions, I know it can also be the springboard to a long and varied career.”
- Sinéad McHugh-Hicks, Dimensions Managing Director
We asked all our colleagues who had previously had jobs elsewhere, about their experience at Dimensions. Watch the video to see what they told us.
Being a support worker means you will help someone become more independent and live a good, ordinary life in their local community.
Put simply – you’ll be lifechanging for the people you support and their loved ones.
Colleagues say that being a support worker is incredibly rewarding. The relationships you form with the people you work with and support often become lifelong friendships and will give you a real sense of achievement.
One minute you might be supporting someone with their daily needs. The next, supporting them to meet friends in a café, or to support their football team. Imagine the satisfaction of teaching a person, slowly and step by step, to do the washing, make a cup of tea or maintain a relationship.
The country is always going to need people who can support others to live an ordinary life and the training you’ll get from Dimensions is second to none.
We offer a very wide range of different shift patterns to meet your own needs as well as those of the person you’ll be supporting – we know that work-life balance really matters.
We recruit based on your values, not your experience. Then we give you the skills to succeed.
You’ll do essential training including skills specific to the needs of the person you’ll be supporting, together with the opportunity to develop your career.
We asked over 500 of our support workers and managers about their jobs. Here is what they told us. Some of these findings might surprise you…
With statistics like these, it’s no wonder that a large majority of respondents said they feel care work has an undeserved bad reputation.
Dimensions, along with many other support providers, recruit people for their values, rather than experience. With the right set of personal values, everything else can be learnt from training.
