Care & Support Worker

Metropolitan Thames Valley; Greater London; On-site; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Care & Support Worker, where you'll play a vital role in supporting residents with enduring mental health issues. This rewarding position involves empowering individuals to maintain their independence and encouraging active participation in the community. You'll be responsible for developing support plans, conducting risk assessments, and collaborating with external agencies to provide cohesive care. If you're passionate about making a difference and thrive in a challenging yet fulfilling environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Be part of a team that values diversity and inclusion, and help create a positive impact in the lives of those you support.

Qualifications

• Experience working with vulnerable adults is essential.
• Willingness to work towards Level 1 Health & Social Care.

Responsibilities

• Empower customers to maintain positive community relationships.
• Provide practical support for essential daily living tasks.
• Ensure a safe and caring environment for customers.

Skills

Experience of working with vulnerable adults

Level 1 Health & Social Care

Basic IT literacy

Good verbal communication skills

Ability to read, write and understand basic English

Education

Level 1 Health & Social Care

Job description

Care & Support Worker - BANK

Harrow

£11.44 Per Hour

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 is for residents 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 well-being.
• 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 organization's 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.
• Good verbal communication skills.
• Able to read, write and understand basic English.

Please note: we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What’s in it for you?

About Us

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

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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 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 others' well-being.

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 are:

• 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.