Care & Support Worker Highgate, South East England, England
Job description
Care & Support Worker
Location: Milton Park, Haringey N6
Salary: £21,547
About This role of Care & Support Worker
As a care and support worker you will join our team providing support to vulnerable adults with mental health issues in the London Borough of Haringey. You will support customers to promote independent living. Milton Park is a small service that provides short term accommodation for people with mental health. There are 11 rooms and shared facilities. Within the role you be providing practical support including settling customers into their home as well as creating holistic support plans to support with more complex requirements whist also managing risk.
This is a full time permanent position working 37.5 hours a week on a flexible rota. The shifts are 7.45am – 15.45pm or 12pm – 8pm.
What you'll need to succeed
Experience in a similar role is essential and any experience of managing a large caseload would be an advantage.
We are looking for you to demonstrate on your CV experience as a care & support worker ideally supporting individuals with mental health issues. Knowledge of care plans and how they should be maintained is essential. As all of our records are recorded on a central It system confidence at learning new IT skills is also required.
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 need to do now
If you`re interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it`s the ideal job for you, click `apply now` to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.
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.
