Care & Support Worker

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Harrow
Salary
20000.00 - 30000.00 GBP Annual
Posted
09 Jul 2021
Closes
06 Aug 2021
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
This role

We are seeking a Care and Support Worker for our supported living service in Brent. Providing support to six individuals with learning difficulties in our shared accommodation, our customers have varying degrees of care needs. There may be lone working in this role where you will be required to work independently in the service or community on a shift basis for 37.5 hours a week.

This scheme supports 6 customers in a shared supported living service. Each customer has unique learning disabilities and individual care requirements. The purpose of your role will be to provide support to these customers during the hours on the rota. This will depend on the individual?s care package and requires flexibility. There will be a requirement of personal care by some of our customers as well.

What youll need to succeed

As a lone Care and Support Worker you will need experience of working with individuals with Learning Disabilities to be successful in your application which should be clearly demonstrated in your CV.

To be considered for this role your CV will need to reflect: -

Experience of lone working so you are taking full responsibility for your work

Good knowledge of health and safe guarding of vulnerable individuals

Experience of working with people with learning difficulties

Be IT literate

If you are looking for an opportunity to develop your career within care and work for a leading Housing Trust please apply to register your interest.

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.

Interview date: To Be Agreed

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.

About Us

Our organisation was built on a simple mission - to give people a safe, secure, and affordable home. That is as true today as it was in the 1950's, when our founder Molly Huggins established on organisation to provide homes for Windrush migrants in London. Our core purpose I that "everyone should have a home and the chance to live well" To fulfil this vision, we work with partners to make our neighbourhoods - new and old - sustainable and vibrant places, where our customers want to live. We put people at the heart of everything we do and to guide is in every decision we make. Through managing more than 57,000 households we work at a scale that means our actions to achieve this have real impact.

We firmly believe that by serving people better every day, we will support a healthier, better cared for, and more prosperous society in the future. Like our founders before us, we will leave a lasting legacy for future generations. Our colleagues are crucial to our success in achieving this. Therefore, we are committed to investing in colleagues and creating the opportunity for them to develop. Our working environment has been designed to be one that brings out the very best in people.

What you'll get in return

We also offer a wide range of benefits. Please take a look at our benefits document attached.

Our 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 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