Hourly rate: £12.32
Full time & Part Time Support Workers required!
Holding a UK valid Driving License is essential for this role!
Location: 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, delivering 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 enjoy 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 requiring support from 1 hour up to 24 hours 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. We place great emphasis on treating our customers as individuals.
Our main priority for this job role is to find the right people with the right values, skills, and attitudes that match our own! We’re seeking to recruit 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 who shares 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 challenging behaviours
All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK. Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.
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.
If you feel you have the skills needed, please apply below via the link. For any further questions, please contact Vickie at vickie.rudge@mearsgroup.co.uk, quoting the job reference number.
Mears Group is a Disability confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset. We hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone as individuals and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual makeup.
Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant PVG/Security checks either before or upon commencement of employment.
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