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 have a major presence in supported living. We deliver a high standard of care services, enabling older and disabled people to continue living in their own homes.
Role Overview:
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, maintenance of tenancy, personal care, support with medication, nutrition, and activities. Some of our service users enjoy activities such as:
1. Art and crafts
2. Bowling
3. Going for journeys in the car
4. Activities based at the Alva Office
5. Swimming
6. 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 emphasize that our customers are individuals, and at Mears Supported Living, we believe 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, and attitudes that match our own! We’re seeking to recruit great new support workers; people with the right values and behaviors to work in our care service – could this be you?
You don’t need 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:
1. Passion
2. Compassion
3. The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users
4. Physical fitness (not extreme!)
5. Ability to manage challenging behavior
Benefits:
1. Cost of PVG covered
2. Up to £20,000 life cover
3. Enrolment onto SVQ level 2 after successful completion of your 6-month probation
4. Care Worker of the Month financial award
5. Refer a friend scheme (total award up to £1000)
6. Excellent training
7. Cycle to work scheme
8. Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
9. Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
10. Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch
11. Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers
12. Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
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