Care and Support Worker

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of housing and support services in Nottingham seeks a Care & Support Worker to assist individuals with learning disabilities, ensuring their independence. Successful candidates will have prior experience in support roles and good literacy and IT skills. You will engage with customers in daily challenges and promote valued community participation. The role offers a rewarding opportunity to make a difference in lives while working under a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a support worker is essential.
• Experience of handling medication and safeguarding is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support people with various Learning Disabilities.
• Be responsible for support plans and liaise with others.
• Encourage customers to be involved in social activities.

Skills

Positive approach to life

Basic literacy

IT skills for record keeping

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!