Support Worker

Livin Housing Limited; Wishaw; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Hourly rate: £12.32

Support Worker

Wishaw

Salary of £12.32 an hour, due to increase on 1st April 2025

We are looking for Drivers and Non Drivers!

We are Mears Supported Living Ltd, providing a range of care and support services to people out in the community and in their own homes to enable them to stay as independent as they can.

Being a Support Worker for Mears is enabling a service user to stay in their own home.

If you are looking for a new role that gives you the ability to give back and support others, this is the role for you!

About the Role:

Our main priority is to find people with the right values, behaviours and 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?

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. These are:

• 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:

• some support with personal care needs, as well as help to take part in a wide range of special interests and activities that support their health and wellbeing such as arts and crafts, watching the football, gardening and shopping trips
• social occasions
• appointments

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
• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
• Care Worker of the Month financial award
• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)
• Excellent training
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Share saver 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
• 20K free life cover

Role Criteria:

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

• Enthusiasm
• Passion
• Compassion
• The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users

Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:

Vickie Rudge ([e-mail])

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.