Care & Support Worker

Description:

Care & Support Worker

Hampton Wick Kingston Upon Thames

Permanent full-time role of 37.5 Hours

Salary of £25,642.50

About Us:

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that ?everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well?; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighborhoods where our customers want to live.

With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

This Role:

As a care and support worker, you will join our dedicated team providing 24hr support to vulnerable adults with learning disabilities.
You will be responsible for supporting individuals to live as independently as possible and engaging within their local community. We are looking for you to be resilient, motivated and have an attitude towards continued learning and development. This is a rewarding role that can make a difference to customers and the community.

The service supports 9 customers. Each customer having a unique learning disability and individual support requirements. The focus is on the customers maintaining independent living within a supported living setting and achieving social inclusion.

You will be required to work flexibly over a Monday to Sunday rota including bank holidays, working shift patterns which also include daily sleep-in and/or waking night shifts, where required.

About You:

Excellent communication, writing and reporting skills.
Enthusiastic and creative to provide the best person-centred support possible.
Ability to conduct meaningful keyworking sessions.

Willingness to provide personal care dependent on customers? needs.
Safe administration of prescribed medication
You will be expected to monitor customers throughout the shift and provide detailed handover reports to colleagues.
Contribute to the completion of service audits and checks.
Be prepared to work with people who present with behaviours that may challenge.
Ability to problem solve and de-escalate situations.
Excellent understanding of how to use, review, update, and embed support plans and risk assessments.
Ability to establish and maintain a useful and mutually beneficial joint-working relationships
with customer support networks.
What you need to do know:

If you`re interested in this role, take a look at the attached job description for more details and if it`s the ideal job for you, click `apply now` to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or for more information call us now on (phone number removed).

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to our customers we will complete an enhanced background check with the Disclosure and Barring service, which will include a check of the Enhanced Adult & Child Barred list once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.

Please note: We do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What?s in it for you?

Our benefits

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
Cycle2work scheme
Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups

Gender
Ethnicity
LGBTQ+
Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment