Job Description

Hourly rate: \xc2\xa311.00

Support Worker

Durham

Recently increased hourly rate to \xc2\xa311.00 an hour.

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 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\xe2\x80\x99re seeking to recruit some great new support workers; people with the right values and behaviours to work in our care service \xe2\x80\x93 could this be you?

You don\xe2\x80\x99t need to have previous experience in this field, nor do you need qualifications \xe2\x80\x93 we\xe2\x80\x99re happy to work with you to help you become an excellent care worker. Above all we want someone that shares in our values.

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.

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.

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

Benefits:

Cost of PVG covered

Enrolment onto SVQ level 2 after successful completion of your 6 month probation

Incentive payment for experienced care workers (\xc2\xa3345)

Care Worker of the Month financial award

Refer a friend scheme (total award \xc2\xa31000)

Family friendly policies include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and more

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 Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch

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

If you feel you have skills needed, please apply below via the link. For any further questions please contact Vickie on , quoting the job reference number.

Mears Group is a Disability confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.

Mears Group