What are the responsibilities and job description for the Support Worker position at Mears?
Hourly rate : £12.32
Full time & Part Time Support Workers required!
Holding a UK valid Driving License is essential for this role!
Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire
Hourly rate of £12.32 an hour.
Mears is a company uniquely placed to address the major challenges in housing and social care industries. We are a market leader in providing housing services to the affordable housing sector, and a major presence in supported living and deliver a high standard of Care Services, enabling older and disabled people to continue living in their own homes.
Role Criteria :
We are looking for enthusiastic Support Workers to join our team.
The successful Support Workers will support in a range of tasks such as; household tasks and maintenance of tenancy, personal care, support with medication, nutrition and activities. Some of our service users like to complete activities such as…..
Art and crafts
Bowling
Going for journeys in the car
Outdoor and Indoor sport activities
Activities based at the Alva Office
Swimming
Coffee mornings
We have a range of different service users ranging from 1 hour support up to 24 hour support with various shift patterns.
Our Support Workers experience variety and a huge sense of reward and achievement in their daily activities where no two days are the same and we place huge emphasis on the fact that our customers are individuals, at Mears Supported Living we feel everyone deserves to be treated as such.
Our main priority for this job role is to find the right people with the right values, skills attitudes that match our own! We’re seeking to recruit some great new support workers; people with the right values and behaviours to work in our care service – could this be you?
You don’t need to have previous experience in this field, nor do you need qualifications – we’re happy to work with you to help you become an excellent care worker. Above all we want someone that shares in our values.
Role Criteria :
Enthusiasm
Passion
Compassion
The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users
Physical fitness (not extreme!)
Ability to manage behaviour which may challenges
Benefits : Cost of PVG covered
Up to £20,000 life cover
Enrolment onto SVQ level 2 after successful completion of your 6 month probation.
Care Worker of the Month financial award
Refer a friend scheme (total award up to £1000)
Excellent training
Pension scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Eye test vouchers
Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch
Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers
Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity / paternity leave and much more.
20K free life cover
Salary : $12
