Care & Support Worker

Metropolitan Thames Valley; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Care & Support Worker to join their team in Nottingham. This rewarding role involves supporting individuals with learning disabilities, encouraging independence, and fostering community involvement. The organization is committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, offering a supportive work environment with extensive benefits, including generous annual leave, enhanced pension contributions, and opportunities for career progression. If you're passionate about making a difference and want to be part of a collaborative team, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

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

Hybrid Working

Health cash plan scheme

Career progression opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a support worker is essential.
• Basic literacy and IT skills for record keeping are required.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with learning disabilities to remain independent.
• Responsible for support plans and liaising with others.

Skills

Support for People with Learning Disabilities

Basic Literacy Skills

IT Skills for Record Keeping

Experience in Handling Medication

Safeguarding Knowledge

Education

Experience as a Support Worker

Job description

Care & Support Worker

£23,809.50

Nottingham

About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK`s leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1900 people to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 56,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London, the East Midlands, Southern and the East of England.

This role

This is a great opportunity and a rewarding role for an experienced care and support worker to join our team. In this position you will:-

• Support People with various Learning Disabilities to remain as independent as possible.
• Be responsible for support plans and liaising with others
• encourage customers to be as independent as possible and be involved in social activities so they are a valuable part of the community.

Previous experience as a support worker is essential and you will need basic literacy and IT skills for record keeping. All our services are supported housing where support is provided 24 hours a day.

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 Adult Barred list, once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.

What you`ll need to succeed

• We are looking for a candidate who has a positive approach to life
• Someone who is looking for a rewarding career
• You will be driven by seeing customers facing, and overcoming, new challenges on a daily basis.

Previous experience in a similar position is preferred and ideally with experience of handling medication and safeguarding.

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.

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.

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
• 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

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

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 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 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.