Care Worker - Reablement MEAR55495

Care Worker - Reablement MEAR55495

Guildford (and Waverley Borough Council areas)

Salary £22,000

Initially a 6-month contract

Mears Care Limited is part of the Mears Group (PLC) and are one of the UK’s leading providers of home care and support delivering high quality care. We have over 180 branches nationwide, provide care for over 40,000 older and disabled people with 17,000 well trained and dedicated staff.

We’re now looking for experienced, confident, friendly and compassionate individuals to join our re-ablement service, based out of Guildford and covering the Guildford and Waverley Borough Council areas, to assist people who have come home from hospital, enabling them to get back to full health or to become as independent as possible.

Working shifts will be either 7am to 3pm or 3pm to 11pm (on a rotation which will include working every other weekend).

The role of a Care Worker includes:

• Personal Care – from supporting with personal hygiene to companionship.
• Health Care – prompting and administering medication.
• Dietary Care - Meal preparation and assisting with feeding as required.
• Domestic / Household Services - General household tasks including shopping requirements
• Getting to know your clients and forming great relationships with them

Requirements

• A full Driving Licence and access to a car
• Care experience
• A passion for making a positive difference in people’s lives
• Sharing in the Mears Five Behaviours – being motivational, empowering, customer-focused, being a role-model and setting high standards
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• A satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check (paid for by Mears)

There are many benefits of working for one of the largest care providers in the UK, including:

• Up to 28 paid holidays per annum
• Mears company pension
• Free uniform
• Access to Mears Advantage money saving scheme
• Refer a friend bonus of up to £1000!
• Annual company fun days
• An employee assist hotline
• Free enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
• Extensive training (funded by Mears), including the transition to complete QCF in Health and Social Care and the Care Certificate to support your career growth
• Extensive induction programme, for which you will be paid, including opportunities to transition automatically to complete QCF
• Career progression can include to become a Senior Care worker, Visiting Officer, Coordinator or Branch Manager
• Care workers will receive, after 12 weeks, a ‘Welcome Bonus’

If you share Mears’ passion for making a positive difference in people’s lives, please click apply to start your application.

This is a Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd vacancy who are operating as an employment agency. Once you have clicked to apply for this vacancy, we will then send you more information on the role including a copy of the application form via email