Care & Support Worker
| Posting date: | 25 July 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £20,000 to £30,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £25,642 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 August 2024 |
| Location: | SE5 8AB |
| Company: | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | MTVH180194 |
Summary
Care and Support Worker - Southwark
Permanent Full-time role at 37.5 hours per week.
Salary £25,642
This role:
You will be working with adults with enduring mental health difficulties within a forensic support service. This service provides a secure and safe home to our customers, and you are key to their wellbeing. Customers are provided with sessions and workshops which promote rehabilitation and independent living, personal recovery, and wellbeing. You will be assigned key clients, with whom you will have regular key worker meetings, as well as also undertaking regular flat checks to ensure that tenancy guidelines are met.
You will need to be prepared to be flexible and participate in a 24 / 7 Rota including weekends and bank holidays.
Salary will be paid at £25,643 plus several fantastic benefits to include 28 days annual leave + bank holidays with the opportunity to buy 5 additional per year. Pension, Healthcare Scheme, Discounts on Hight Street names and many more!
What you will need to succeed:
- Working in an experienced team this is an ideal opportunity for someone that wishes to start a career in adult social care or alternatively for someone to focus on supporting adults with mental health needs and associated forensic histories.
- The key is the ability to demonstrate a passion to deliver excellent services to vulnerable adults in a dignified and empathetic manner. You will need to be able to work independently and have the confidence to deal with customers with compassion and understanding. You will need the ability to work with individuals without judgement and your work will require you to promote social interaction and community presence in a manner which is attentive to cultural inclusivity and anti-discriminatory practice.
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.
Interview date Monday 19th August
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
- Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
- Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
- Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
- Cycle2work scheme
- Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
- 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 and season Ticket loan
- 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/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
- Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
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.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- LGBTQ+
- Disability
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.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme