About the role
We are looking to recruit a number of Social Care Workers for our care home Trescott Road, Northfield, Birmingham. We are looking for someone to join our team in supporting customers who have learning disabilities, additional health, mobility and physical support needs.
The role is permanent opportunity covering a variety of shifts been a mixture of hours to include weekends and bank holidays and may change depending on service requirement.
The benefits;
1. 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
2. Birthday leave
3. New Home leave
4. Life assurance (3 x salary)
5. Employee Assistance programme
6. Employee Wellbeing programme
7. Flexible Working options
About You
We are looking for highly motivated individuals who would like to join our team in order to deliver good quality service to vulnerable adults. You will be responsible for looking after service users and supporting them with their daily requirements.
We are looking for confident, positive, and enthusiastic social care workers to support adults with learning disabilities and other complex needs in all aspects of daily living. Your focus will be to help your customers lead a happy and fulfilled life, whilst promoting independence.
Responsibilities will include:
8. Medication support
9. Personal Care
10. Food Shopping
11. Supporting with day to day tasks and promoting independence
12. Assist with preparation of meals, drinks, and snacks
13. Emotional Support
Job Requirements:
14. Previous care experience, ideally within a similar role – working with adults with learning disabilities / autism / mental health issues.
15. Fully flexible, across 7 days as all shifts are worked on a rota basis. (This will include long, short days and weekends)
16. Be willing and able to participate in daily activities which could include swimming, bowling, arts & crafts etc.
17. Be able to follow a detailed care plan along with completing daily logs.
18. Must hold a Level 2 Health and Social Care qualification and must be willing to commit to continuous professional development.
Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services and innovation for up to 8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than 750 staff, works with over 150 volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more. The Group has an annual turnover of more than £37m and owns assets close than £190m.
The Group consists of;
19. Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance
20. Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering person-centred care and support services. These services include supporting people within registered care, domiciliary care, people with learning difficulties, those with mental health needs, young people at risk, older people, BME groups, people at risk of being homeless, those seeking employability, education and training opportunities and those fleeing domestic abuse.
Trident offers their employees learning and development opportunities and wants to invest in their development and career growth. Through our apprenticeship scheme, we offer various courses in areas that will help support employees within their roles and for their further development.
We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a person-centred organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope.
By joining Trident Group, you will have the opportunity to join our Diverse Voices Steering Group to ensure Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion remains at the heart of everything we do.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:
21. ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
22. communicating and promoting vacancies
23. offering an interview to disabled people
24. anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
25. supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
26. at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people