Care & Support Worker Saffron Walden, England
Job description
The role
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Care and Support mental health team in our supported homes scheme in Saffron Walden. Within this role you support residents with enduring mental health issues. This work can be highly challenging but also rewarding in equal measure.
This role requires shift work, including weekends and bank holidays for our mental health services in Saffron Walden.
As a key worker you will be fully responsible for your customers’ support plans and encouraging their independence. The customers’ all have complex enduring mental ill health, regularly the result of drug induced psychosis, with unpredictable behavioural patterns. They require positive support to ensure their independence is maintained and they are encouraged to remain as active in the community as possible. The ultimate objective if for residence to return to independent living in the community.
What you`ll need to succeed
As this is a lone working role experience in supporting vulnerable adults is essential. You will be required to make decisions on how to deal with safeguarding and risk issues daily so you must be confident and decisive in responding to issues. While you have the full support of a dedicated management structure daily you will be the lead in the service. Including maintain detailed records and dealing with third parties involved with residence support package.
If you can demonstrate a passion to deliver excellent service to vulnerable adults in a dignified manner and want to make a real difference to a vulnerable section of the community, this is a role for you. You will be the person that makes a difference to an individual becoming content and managing their own life!
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’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.
