Mears Group
Support Worker
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Hourly rate: £13.72
Support Worker
Location: Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire
Contract Type: Zero-hour contract. Part-Time and Full-time hours available
Salary: £13.72 an hour
Are you passionate about making a difference to a person’s life? Would you like the opportunity to provide an individual with a better quality of life?
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, 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 based in Alva.
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 like to complete 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 ranging from 1 hour support up to 24-hour support packages 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 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.
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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 some 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 that shares in our values.
Key Criteria
- A valid driving license
- Must be aware of professional boundaries
- Patience
- Confidence
- The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users
- Enthusiasm
- Passion
- Compassion
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&D's 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.
- 20K free life cover
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All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK. Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.
Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.
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Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:
Vickie Rudge (Vickie.Rudge@mearsgroup.co.uk)
If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.
At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.
We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honored to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS). To coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognizing our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.
In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.
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