Apprentice / Career Changer BBL Disability Care

Working with people who are blind or visually impaired? That requires unique knowledge and skills!

With your motivation, you'll be just fine, because you aren't choosing healthcare for nothing. Whether you are at the beginning of your career, have made a switch, or want to progress to your dream job, at Bartiméus you will learn the finer points of this unique profession. A profession in which you add color to the lives of people with a visual and often also an intellectual disability.

Your job as Apprentice / Career Changer Disability Care at Bartiméus in Zeist, Doorn, or Ermelo

Would you like to work with people who are visually impaired or blind and who also have a mild, moderate, or severe intellectual disability? Then we have the ideal work-study placement for you. A place where you gain work experience 24 hours per week and spend 8 hours per week in the classroom to obtain your diploma as Disability Care Guide (level 3), Caregiver IG (level 3), or Personal Disability Care Guide (level 4). Do you have the ambition to pursue a higher professional education (HBO) in healthcare? We would also love to look at the possibilities together with you.

Sometimes you will work together with a direct colleague and in other cases you will work alone (stand alone). But your workplace will always align perfectly with the phase of your learning process. Moreover, we won't throw you into the deep end immediately. You will first follow an extensive induction period of at least 3 months before you start your training. This is so you can get to know all the ins and outs of working in a residential home or day activity location. You will also be assigned a work supervisor with whom you will regularly have guidance meetings and who will help you to develop yourself even better. The direct team in which you work usually consists of a coordinating guide, residential guides, and support staff. As an Apprentice / Career Changer Disability Care:

• You will carry out all activities that belong to the position for which you are being trained.

• You will work with various target groups, such as children, adults, and elderly people with a visual and intellectual disability. Some have multiple disabilities or may exhibit difficult-to-read behavior. Assistance with ADL (personal care) is also part of the job. Together with you, we will look at which target group(s) allow you to excel most.

• You will learn to act according to procedures, legal regulations, support plans, care plans, daily programs, and internal protocols.

• During school periods, you will work 24 hours per week at Bartiméus and attend school for 8 hours per week. During school holidays, you will work 32 hours per week. You do not have to work night and/or sleep shifts.

Watch Bas's video below to get an impression of what it is like to work as a Residential Support Worker at Bartiméus.

We are Bartiméus. With over 1,900 employees and about 850 volunteers, we are there for people in the Netherlands who are visually impaired or blind. Also if they have a multiple disability or have experienced problems with seeing due to, for example, non-congenital brain injury. We are there for their loved ones and for the professionals around them. They can turn to our expertise center, our outpatient providers, our schools and residential facilities, and the various forms of day activities that we offer. We do everything in our power to make it possible for people with a visual impairment to lead the life that suits them and to develop themselves fully. Because it is not about what percentage you see. It is about what percentage you live. Bartiméus: living 100%.

You always think in terms of possibilities and solutions. Furthermore, you find it important to develop yourself and learn new things. For this work-study placement, you are at least 18 years old and you also bring:

• A vmbo (tl, gl, or kader), mavo, havo, or vwo diploma, an mbo diploma as Helper level 2, or a transition certificate from 3 to 4 havo.

• Patience and empathy for our target group.

• Sufficient knowledge of Dutch, English, and arithmetic.

If you have already completed a suitable MBO education (such as educational assistant, SMD, SCW, PABO, or pedagogical employee), then we will look at the possibilities for a certificate route together with you. These are shortened trajectories, allowing you to start quickly in the role of Guide A (level 3) or Guide B (level 4). During the certificate route, you will remain employed at 1 location.

• A suitable training trajectory at mbo level 3 or 4. The duration of the training varies from 1½ - 3 years. There are multiple start dates throughout the year. Do you have the ambition to pursue a higher professional education (HBO) in healthcare? We would also love to look at the possibilities together with you.

• Extensive induction period: Before the training starts, you will work with us for at least 3 months to gain experience in healthcare.

• Optimal work guidance by a qualified work supervisor.

• A (learning) employment contract for 32 hours per week. You will work 24 hours per week in the group and attend school for 8 hours per week (your school day is fully reimbursed by us).

• Salary appropriate to your level and experience based on the CAO Gehandicaptenzorg.

  • Are you 21 years or older? Then you will be scaled into FWG 30 (depending on your previous work experience) with a minimum of €2,420 and a maximum of €3,453 gross per month based on a 36-hour work week.

  • Are you under 21? Then you will receive an apprentice salary, depending on your year of study, of at least €1,983 gross per month based on a 36-hour work week.

  • Training costs and costs for books are fully reimbursed by Bartiméus.

  • Irregularity allowance (ORT) if you work, for example, on weekends or on a public holiday.

• Holiday allowance of 8%, an end-of-year bonus of 8.33% and an attractive flexible benefits system, through which you benefit from tax advantages on the purchase of, among other things, a (lease) bike, sports subscriptions, outings, a museum annual pass, and gift vouchers.

• Growth opportunities and many training opportunities, including access to our Learning Plaza and the online training from 'GoodHabitz'.

Use the link on our vacancy page and the rest will follow naturally. You can respond to this vacancy up to and including Thursday, October 29, 2026. Would you prefer more information first? For substantive questions, please contact our training advisors Marja Luiks at tel. 06 - 14 33 09 85 or Nadine Welgraven at tel. 06 - 50 90 10 79. For general questions, WhatsApp or call Andrea van Diermen, Recruiter at tel. 06 - 81 36 06 24, or email your question to wervingenselectie@bartimeus.nl.

Click here for even more information about the various work-study opportunities at Bartiméus.

We look forward to meeting you.

In addition - To start working with us, applying for a VOG (Certificate of Good Conduct) is required. Additionally, a reference check and a trial period/shadowing moment are part of the application procedure.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated. We handle our own recruitment.