Care & Support Worker Harlow, England
Job description
Care & Support Worker
Part time – Flexible
£10.42 per hour
About Us
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK`s leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1900 people to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 56,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London, the East Midlands, Southern and the East of England.
This role
This is a great opportunity and a rewarding role for an experienced care and support worker to join our team. The role will be working on a permanent part-time contract for 16 hours per week. In this position you will:-
- Support People with various Learning Disabilities to remain as independent as possible.
- Be responsible for support plans and liaising with others
- encourage customers to be as independent as possible and be involved in social activities so they are a valuable part of the community.
Previous experience as a support worker is essential and you will need basic literacy and IT skills for record keeping. All our services are supported housing where support is provided 24 hours a day.
To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers we will complete an enhanced background check with the Disclosure and Barring service, which will include a check of the Adult Barred list, once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.
What you`ll need to succeed
- We are looking for a candidate who has a positive approach to life
- Someone who is looking for a rewarding career
- You will be driven by seeing customers facing, and overcoming, new challenges on a daily basis.
Previous experience in a similar position is preferred and ideally with experience of handling medication and safeguarding.
What’s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
- 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
- An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
- Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
- Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
- Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits
- Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
- Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
- Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring programme and apprenticeships
- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 16 per week
Salary: £10.42 per hour
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Life insurance
- Paid volunteer time
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
Day range:
- Every weekend
- Monday to Friday
Physical setting:
- Care home
Shift:
- Day shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Harlow: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)
Experience:
- Home care: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
