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 scheme

• Cycle to work scheme

• Eye test vouchers

• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)

• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)

• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blair Drummond Safari Park, M&Ds Theme park, fully paid for including lunch

• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers

• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.

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If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.

At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.