Care & Support Worker - Bank
About Us
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UKs leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1,900 people to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 56,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London and surrounding counties, the East Midlands and the East of England.
This role
Within this role you support residents with enduring mental health issues. This can be highly challenging, but rewarding in equal measure. This is a bank position which means you will be required to work flexibly over a seven day rota, including weekends and bank holidays.
As a key worker you will be fully responsible for your customers? support plans and encouraging their independence. The customers? all have complex enduring mental ill health, regularly the result of drug induced psychosis, with unpredictable behavioural patterns. However they are living in self-contained flats and encouraged to manage their own well-being. They require positive support to ensure their independence is maintained and they are encouraged to remain as active in the community as possible. The ultimate objective if for residence to return to independent living in the community.
What youll need to succeed
As this is a lone working role experience in supporting vulnerable adults is essential. You will be required to make decisions on how to deal with safeguarding and risk issues on a daily basis so you must be confident and decisive in responding to issues. While you have the full support of a dedicated management structure on a daily basis you will be the lead in the service. Including maintain detailed records and dealing with third parties involved with residence support package.
If you are able to demonstrate a passion to deliver excellent service to vulnerable adults in a dignified manner and want to make a real difference to a really vulnerable section of the community this is a role for you. You will be the person that makes a difference to an individual becoming content and managing their own life!
What you need to do now
If youre interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if its the ideal job for you, click apply now to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.
Why work for us?
Currently GBP9.77 per hour, but reviewed annually
Flexible hours to suit you
Full-time or part-time hours
Free comprehensive training
Free DBS
Life assurance scheme
Supportive and passionate management teamOur promise
All employment decisions at MTVH are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race or religion, sex or sexual orientation.
We are proud to have been recognised by Disability Confident for our commitment to disabled people and those with long term health conditions by providing fair and equal opportunities for all applicants enabling them to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
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
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UKs leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1,900 people to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 56,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London and surrounding counties, the East Midlands and the East of England.
This role
Within this role you support residents with enduring mental health issues. This can be highly challenging, but rewarding in equal measure. This is a bank position which means you will be required to work flexibly over a seven day rota, including weekends and bank holidays.
As a key worker you will be fully responsible for your customers? support plans and encouraging their independence. The customers? all have complex enduring mental ill health, regularly the result of drug induced psychosis, with unpredictable behavioural patterns. However they are living in self-contained flats and encouraged to manage their own well-being. They require positive support to ensure their independence is maintained and they are encouraged to remain as active in the community as possible. The ultimate objective if for residence to return to independent living in the community.
What youll need to succeed
As this is a lone working role experience in supporting vulnerable adults is essential. You will be required to make decisions on how to deal with safeguarding and risk issues on a daily basis so you must be confident and decisive in responding to issues. While you have the full support of a dedicated management structure on a daily basis you will be the lead in the service. Including maintain detailed records and dealing with third parties involved with residence support package.
If you are able to demonstrate a passion to deliver excellent service to vulnerable adults in a dignified manner and want to make a real difference to a really vulnerable section of the community this is a role for you. You will be the person that makes a difference to an individual becoming content and managing their own life!
What you need to do now
If youre interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if its the ideal job for you, click apply now to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.
Why work for us?
Currently GBP9.77 per hour, but reviewed annually
Flexible hours to suit you
Full-time or part-time hours
Free comprehensive training
Free DBS
Life assurance scheme
Supportive and passionate management teamOur promise
All employment decisions at MTVH are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race or religion, sex or sexual orientation.
We are proud to have been recognised by Disability Confident for our commitment to disabled people and those with long term health conditions by providing fair and equal opportunities for all applicants enabling them to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
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