Care & Support worker

Care & Support Worker

£22,308

Fixed Term - 9 Months

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, ideally with experience of handling medication and safeguarding.

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 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 to.
• 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.

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 others’ wellbeing.

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.

Please note: we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.