Care & Support Worker

TN United Kingdom; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking dedicated support workers to assist residents facing mental health challenges. In this rewarding role, you'll empower individuals to lead independent lives while providing essential support in a caring environment. Your contributions will help foster positive relationships and community engagement, ensuring that residents feel safe and supported. Join a team that values collaboration, diversity, and professional growth, and make a meaningful impact on the lives of those you serve. This position offers flexibility and a range of benefits that prioritize your well-being and career development.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

2 volunteering days per year

Enhanced pension with matched contributions

Life assurance cover 3 x your salary

Health cash plan scheme

Career progression opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience working with vulnerable adults is essential.
• Basic IT literacy and understanding of English are required.

Responsibilities

• Support residents with mental health issues and encourage independence.
• Maintain accurate customer records and ensure a safe environment.
• Work with external agencies to provide cohesive care.

Skills

Experience of working with vulnerable adults

Basic IT literacy

Ability to read, write and understand basic English

Education

Level 1 Health & Social Care

Job description

Must be flexible to work across all 7 days

Overall Responsibility

Within this role you will support residents with enduring mental health issues. This can be highly challenging but rewarding in equal measure. As a key worker you will be fully responsible for your customers’ support plans/risk assessment and encouraging their independence. The customers’ all have complex enduring mental ill health, regularly the result of drug induced psychosis, with unpredictable behavioural patterns. However, they are living in self contained flats and encouraged to manage their own well-being. They require positive support to ensure their independence is maintained and they are encouraged to remain as active in the community as possible. The ultimate objective if for residence to return to independent living in the community.

Key responsibilities

• Empower customers to maintain and establish positive relationships in the wider community
• Provide practical support to customers for essential daily living tasks
• Encourage customers in developing and maintaining independence and emotional wellbeing
• Ensure customers are supported in a safe and caring environment with the confidence to raise issues
• Recognise changes in customer behaviours and potential safeguarding issues. Respond and challenge in an appropriate and empathetic manner
• Work with colleagues to maintain accurate customer records
• Work closely and cooperatively with external agencies and family members to offer customers a cohesive care and support service to develop and/or maintain independence
• Undertake risk assessments for customers and administration and recording of medication in line with care plans
• De-escalate challenging behaviours in a way that respects customers whilst showing respect and limiting any impact on other customers or colleagues

General responsibilities

• To understand and comply with MTVH’s safeguarding, safety and compliance policies, procedures and processes and support a positive safeguarding, safety and compliance culture across the organization.
• Actively and effectively promote the organisations corporate values of Care, Dare, Collaborate. Role modelling appropriate behaviours and acting with the highest level of professionalism and integrity.
• Play an active role in contributing to effective cross team working and provide cover for colleagues as required.
• To maintain confidentiality with personal information and data regarding our customers, employees and stakeholders at all times ensuring compliance with the Data Protection Policy.
• To comply with MTVH’s Health and Safety policies, procedures and processes and to promote health and safety compliance for all.
• To act at all times within MTVH’s policies, procedures and code of conduct and uphold MTVH’s commitment to Equality and Diversity

This profile only contains the main accountabilities relating to the job and does not describe in detail all the duties and tasks required to carry them out. You may be required to perform any reasonable tasks comparable with the level of responsibility at the request of your manager. MTVH reserves the right to alter the content of this job profile to reflect changes to the organisation or the services it provides.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge

• Experience of working with vulnerable adults
• Level 1 Health & Social Care or willingness to work towards
• Basic IT literacy
• Able to read, write and understand basic English

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

What’s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 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
• 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

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

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 are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

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 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.