Support Worker

Hourly rate: £12.32

Female Support Worker

Whitehills

We are offering an hourly rate of £12.32.

Are you passionate about making a difference to a person’s life? Would you like the opportunity to provide an individual with a better quality of life?

Mears is a company uniquely placed to address the major challenges in housing and social care industries. We are a market leader in providing housing services to the affordable housing sector, and a major presence in supported living and deliver a high standard of Care Services.

About the Role:

We are looking for enthusiastic Support Workers to join our team based in Whitehills, for a specific service user.

The successful Support Workers will support in a range of tasks such as; household tasks and maintenance of tenancy, personal care, support with medication, nutrition and activities. Our service user likes to complete activities such as…..

* Art and crafts
* Bowling
* Going for journeys in the car
* Visiting Loch Soy

Our service user has interests in......

* Shopping
* Going to Enable Club
* Going out for lunches
* Spending time with my family

About Them:

Our service user can display some challenging behaviour, i.e verbal and can sometimes struggle with her mental health. She is 29 years old and is an active individual who enjoys going out to do activities.

All candidates must be female as this is a female only service and hold a UK Driving License as this is essential for the role.

Support worker to work on a 1:1 basis.

The shift pattern will consist of the following:

* Early shifts 08:00-14:00
* Other Shifts which can range from: 08:30-10:30/15:00-21:00 OR 08:00-14:00/17:00-21:00

For continuity of our service user this is the shift pattern we are offering.

Our Support Workers experience variety and a huge sense of reward and achievement in their daily activities where no two days are the same and we place huge emphasis on the fact that our customers are individuals, at Mears Supported Living we feel everyone deserves to be treated as such.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears- does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Benefits:

* Cost of PVG covered
* Up to £20,000 life cover
* Enrolment onto SVQ level 2 after successful completion of your 6 month probation.
* Care Worker of the Month financial award
* Refer a friend scheme (total award up to £1000)
* Excellent training
* Pension scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Eye test vouchers
* Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
* Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
* Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch
* Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers
* Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
* 20K free life cover

Role Criteria:

* Enthusiasm
* Passion
* Compassion
* The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users
* Physical fitness (not extreme!)
* Ability to manage behaviour which challenges
* Full UK Driving Licence

If you have what it take to make a difference to someone life and have the passion to go above and beyond, we need to hear from you!

Please apply below via the link. If you have any further questions please contact Vickie on vickie.rudge@mearsgroup.co.uk, quoting the job reference number.

Mears Group was recognised for its commitment to workplace excellence ranking 8th in the UK's Best Large Companies to Work for list!

Mears Group is a Disability Confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant DBS/Security checks before commencement of employment.