Care & Support Worker

Metropolitan Thames Valley; Willesden; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Care & Support Worker to join their team in Willesden. In this full-time role, you will provide essential support to vulnerable individuals with mental health and complex needs, helping them to live independently and enhance their quality of life. This opportunity offers a chance to make a real difference in the lives of others while working in a supportive environment. With a commitment to employee well-being and professional development, this role promises a fulfilling career path in the non-profit sector.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

Volunteering days

Enhanced pension contributions

Life assurance cover

Cycle2work scheme

Hybrid working options

Health cash plan scheme

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience delivering support to individuals with mental health needs.
• Ability to create and implement support plans and risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Support vulnerable individuals in achieving independence.
• Assist in developing life skills and promoting well-being.

Skills

Person-centred support

Communication skills

IT skills

Time management

Positive attitude

Job description

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About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK`s leading providers of affordable housing 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.

Care & Support worker

Willesden

£27,007.50

About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK`s leading providers of affordable housing 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.

About The Role Of Care & Support Worker

As a Support Worker you will join our team, providing focused support to vulnerable males, living with mental health and/or complex needs in our Supported Living Accommodation in Brent.

Our service provides short term accommodation for males with mental health and/or complex needs. We assist individuals to develop the life skills identified in their support plans, provide safe supported accommodation and high quality of support and promote independence, by working in partnership with a range of agencies. Lastly, we assist individuals to explore appropriate housing options available to them.

You will be closely working with our customers, enabling them to live as independently as possible, whilst supporting them to lead an active and fulfilled life and enhancing their overall well-being.

This is a full-time position working 37.5 hours a week, based on a rota, including work during weekends and bank holidays.

The shifts vary from early shift: 8:00am to 16:00pm and late shift: 13:00pm to 21:00pm.

What You'll Need To Succeed

To be successful in this role you will have a passion for working closely with people with mental health and/or complex needs and want to constantly promote and support our customers’ well-being.

You will need the following skills and experience to the role:

• Experience of delivering person centred support to vulnerable individuals, with mental health and/or complex needs.
• Experience in creating, reviewing and implementing person centred support plans, risk assessments and staying well plans.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• As all of our records are recorded in an online platform, good IT skills are required.
• Ability to conduct tasks within a set deadline.
• A positive, ‘can do’ attitude.
  
  

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 Need To Do Now

If you`re interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it`s the ideal job for you, click `apply now` to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

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!

Please note: we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations

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