Support Worker

Mears Group PLC; North East; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cost of DBS covered

Up to £20,000 life cover

Care Worker of the Month award

Refer a friend scheme (up to £1000)

Excellent training

Pension scheme

Job summary

Mears Supported Living Ltd is seeking compassionate Support Workers to assist individuals in their own homes and in the community across varied shifts, including 24-hour packages and sleepovers. You will help with daily tasks, personal care, and community access, making a real difference in people’s lives.

No formal qualifications are required; we welcome individuals with the right values and a willingness to learn.

Qualifications

• Commitment to quality and being the best we can.
• Treating the people we support with compassion.
• Showing dignity and respect to the people we will be working with.
• Friendly, supportive and an understanding personality.
• Clear communicator.
• 2-1 support in the community (second person can be a male).
• Enthusiasm, passion and compassion for care.
• Ability to show dignity and respect to service users.
• Physical fitness (not extreme).
• Ability to manage behaviour which challenges.

Responsibilities

• Prompting medication, personal hygiene and helping with basic household tasks.
• Cooking, cleaning, shopping and accessing the community for appointments and activities.
• Duties vary daily as each service user is an individual and deserves tailored care.

Skills

Clear communicator

Compassion

Enthusiasm

Passion

Dignity and respect

Friendly and supportive

Physical fitness

Behaviour management

Trust and respect

Quality mindset

Job description

Hourly rate: £13.45

Support Worker

Location: Durham - Meadowbank

Contract Type: Zero-hour contract / Full time & Part-time hours available

Hourly Rate: £13.45 an hour

Are you passionate about making a different to a person’s life or would like the opportunity to provide an individual with a better quality of life, this role might be for you?

Mears is a company uniquely placed to address the major challenges in housing and social care industries. We are a market leader in providing housing services to the affordable housing sector, and a major presence in supported living and deliver a high standard of Care Services.

About The Role

We are Mears Supported Living Ltd, providing support to individuals. We provide a range of care and support services to people out in the community and in their own homes.

We are looking for Support Workers to join this service, this is to support 4 service user of varying conditions, abilities and needs.

We offer a number of 24-hour packages within our service including day shifts and sleepover shifts available. Sleepover shifts are paid an hourly rate and many of our shift packages include meal allowances.

Our main priority for this job role is to find the right people with the right values, skills attitudes that match our own! We’re seeking to recruit some great new support workers; people with the right values and behaviours to work in our care service – could this be you?

The duties are varied and no two days will be the same. Our Service Users are individuals, and they all deserve to be treated as such. However, duties may include prompting medication, personal hygiene and helping with basic household tasks. Cooking, cleaning, shopping and accessing the community for both appointments and recreational activities.

Role Criteria

• a commitment to quality and being the best we can
• treating the people we support with compassion
• showing dignity and respect to the people we will be working with
• having trust and respect for all members of our team.
• Friendly supportive and an understanding personality
• Clear communicator
• 2-1 support in the community (The 2nd person can be a male)
• Enthusiasm
• Passion
• Compassion
• The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users
• Physical fitness (not extreme)
• Ability to manage behaviour which challenges

If you have what it takes to make a difference to someone’s life and have the passion to go above and beyond, we need to hear from you!

You don’t need to have previous experience in this field, nor do you need qualifications – we’re happy to work with you to help you become an excellent care worker. Above all we want someone that shares in our values.

Benefits

• Cost of DBS covered
• Up to £20,000 life cover
• Care Worker of the Month financial award
• Refer a friend scheme (total award up to £1000)
• Excellent training
• Pension schemeCycl