About the Role
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Our Service user has mental health conditions and needs support to mainly plan his week and his activities and to be kept on the straight and narrow!
Monday shift between 2.30-5.30 will be used to complete volunteer work, to keep on top of his washing and house work, ensuring the house is kept clean and odour free. This time will also be used to plan for the week ahead, to include the second shift on a Saturday which main include going to a football game, he is a big Rangers fan!
Our service user loves to go on holiday so there may be an opportunity to go on holiday with him.
The successful Support Worker needs to be firm but far and encourage our service user to make better life choices!
No personal care is necessary for this role as this gentleman is able to do so independently.
About Them:
Our service user is a young Gentleman who can be very impressionable and therefore we are looking for someone who can support him to make the right choices! He loves to go and watch a Rangers game and go on holiday!
Activities he enjoys:
1. Football
2. Pool
3. Holidays
4. Gigs
5. Trips out
The shift pattern will be Every Monday 2.30-5.30 and every Saturday for 6hrs, this will be flexible on activity commitments.
If you are passionate about making a different to a person life or would like the opportunity to provide an individual with a better quality of life, this role might be for you?
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.
What can you expect:
6. Day trips out
7. Supporting with hobbies and activities
8. Social trips
9. Supporting with daily tasks
10. Sporting activities like Football & Rugby
11. Pool
12. Holidays
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.
Benefits:
13. Cost of PVG covered
14. Up to £20,000 life cover
15. Enrolment onto SVQ level 2 after successful completion of your 6 month probation.
16. Care Worker of the Month financial award
17. Refer a friend scheme (total award up to £1000)
18. Excellent training
19. Pension scheme
20. Cycle to work scheme
21. Eye test vouchers
22. Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
23. Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
24. Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch
25. Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers
26. Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
27. 20K free life cover
Role Criteria:
28. Enthusiasm
29. Passion
30. Compassion
31. The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users
32. Physical fitness (not extreme!)
33. Ability to manage behaviour which challenges
If you have what it take to make a difference to someone life and have the passion to go above and beyond, we need to hear from you!
If you feel you have skills needed, please apply below via the link. If you have any further questions please contact Vickie on, quoting the job reference number.
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