Care & Support Worker
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £20,000 to £30,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £25,642.50 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | SW5 9SD |
| Company: | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | MTVH172923 |
Summary
Care & Support Worker
Earls Court
£25,642.50
About Us
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK`s leading providers of affordable hous-ing 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.
About the role of Care & Support Worker
As a Care and Support Team Worker you will join our team, providing support to vulnerable women, living with mental health and/or complex needs in our Supported Living Accommodation at Kensington & Chelsea.
Our service provides short term accommodation for women with mental health and/or complex needs. We assist individuals to develop the life skills identified in their support plans, provide safe supported accommodation and high quality of care & support and promote independence, by working in partnership with a range of agencies. Lastly, we assist individuals to explore appropriate housing options available to them.
You will be closely working with our customers, enabling them to live as independently as possible, whilst supporting them to lead an active and fulfilled life.
This is a full-time position working 37.5 hours a week, based on a rota, including work during weekends and bank holidays.
What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this role you will have a passion for working closely with people with mental health and/or complex needs and want to constantly promote and support our customers’ well-being.
You will need the following skills and experience to the role:
-Experience of delivering care & support to vulnerable individuals, with mental health and/or complex needs.
-Experience in creating, reviewing and implementing support plans and risk assessments.
-Good verbal and written communication skills.
-As all of our records are recorded on a central IT system, confidence at learning new IT skills is also required.
-Ability to conduct reports within a deadline.
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.
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!
Please note: we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
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.
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