We want to help you grow
After a successful interview, we will invite you to one of our welcome sessions where we explain our company and how we can work together.
Whilst you're awaiting employment checks, we set you up on our training programme to get you equipped to embark on your career journey as soon as you're ready to start.
When trained and ready to start work, you'll undertake 3 'shadow' shifts under the careful watch of a senior member of staff. We have created a probation booklet that documents your progress at each step of the way. This process encourages self-reflection enabling both your allocated senior mentor to assess the your ability to work as part of our team, as well as giving you the opportunity to determine if you continue to feel comfortable in your role.
Over your 12 week probation period, you will be met with at 4 week intervals for supervision sessions with your designated Team Lead, all the while documenting your progress and what you have achieved.
As a fully-fledged member of the team you will receive one-to-one meetings with your manager on a regular basis as a form of ongoing support. It is in these meetings that your professional development is formally tracked and measures put in place by working together to find solutions.
We want to help you grow
We encourage our team members to share their ideas around training and development; we want to nurture a proactive approach to learning.
In order to meet Social Care Wales Registration requirements team members are expected to complete a health and social care qualification within 3yrs of signing up. We have ensured that our training programme is mapped directly to the qualification right from the very beginning, giving you confidence that everything you do and learn is going to benefit you in the future.
A great career choice
Pay rates in the sector can be generally low when compared to other industries due to a number of factors, but primarily because of minimal government funding. We want to pay our team fairly for the hard work they do. We have worked hard to be in a position that allows us to not only pay a competitive wage, but to reward those team members who work on evenings and weekends, as well as bank holidays and early mornings; paying higher between 19:00 and 08:00. We also increase across the board all standard rates of pay, once qualified.
With paid mileage, paid travel time, paid holidays and the offer of additional work, there is ample opportunity for you to earn much more than you might expect.
Outside of Pineshield there are plenty of opportunities to find experience in social care roles:
We see our approach as win-win; if we can support you to be trained up in areas of interest, you will be working in a job that truly sparks your imagination whilst supporting us to grow our business and filling it with people who are enthusiastic and invested in their work.
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TRAINING
Training is so important to us at Pineshield; find out how we invest in our staff
