Support Worker

Mears; Banff; On-site; CAD 35,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A support service provider in Banff seeks enthusiastic Support Workers to assist a young man with disabilities, including severe learning disabilities and autism. Duties involve personal care, household tasks, and driving for outings. Candidates need to show compassion and respect for the service user. Experience with disabilities is preferred. Competitive benefits include excellent training, life cover, and a family-friendly policy.

Benefits

Cost of PVG covered

Life cover up to £20,000

SVQ level 2 enrolment

Care Worker of the Month award

Refer a friend scheme

Excellent training

Pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Eye test vouchers

Employee Assistance Programme

Wellbeing service

Family Fun Day

Performance recognition platform

Qualifications

• Candidates must have the entitlement to work within the UK.
• Experience in caring for individuals with disabilities is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Support service users with household tasks and maintenance.
• Assist with personal care and administering medication.
• Drive the service user on outings as required.

Skills

Driving License

Enthusiasm

Passion

Compassion

Ability to show dignity and respect

Physical fitness

Ability to manage challenging behavior

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for enthusiastic Support Workers to join our team to cover a variety of shifts with a service user based in Ladysbridge / Banff.

The successful Support Workers will support in a range of tasks such as household tasks and maintenance of tenancy, personal care, administering medication, Preparing nutritional meals and cooking and activities.

Our Service User Likes to Complete Activities such as:

• Bowling
• Swimming
• Shopping
• Trips in his car

About the Service User

Our service user is a young man who has a severe learning disability, autism, epilepsy and Downs Syndrome.He engages in very little verbal communication but does respond well to visual support. At times can enjoy his own company so staff would need to be able to tolerate long periods of quite time.

Our service user does have his own car and would require drivers as he does like to out in the car, sometimes unexpectedly.

If any challenging behaviour is displayed staff must always follow the behaviour support plan to ensure both staff and service user are safe. All training will be given.

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.

Key Criteria

• Driving License
• Enthusiasm
• Passion
• Compassion
• The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users
• Physical fitness (not extreme!)
• Ability to manage behaviour which challenges

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.
• 20K free life cover

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.