Care & Support Worker
About Us
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that ?everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well?; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.
This role - 30 hours per week
Working in the community as a care and support worker you will join our team providing support to vulnerable adults with low to medium Mental Health issues. You will be working with customers in Derby City in their own homes and in 3 of our supported houses. You will therefore be required to work flexibly to ensure individual needs are met while maximising independence, choice, dignity, privacy and well-being. It is essential that you have the ability to travel independently.
This service provides support to customers with Mental Health to enable them to remain independent and self-managing in their own homes. Working 30 hours a week, days to be confirmed, but between Monday and Friday 9am ? 5pm in the main. You will however need to be flexible in your working to meet customers? needs on occasion.
What youll need to succeed
As this role will involve loan working to be successful previous experience of supporting vulnerable adults is essential. You will demonstrate you understand what good support looks like and how care plans are created to achieve this.
As all of the care plans are maintained electronically you should also be confident at learning to use new IT systems at work.
This role is based through the community so it is essential that you are a driver with access to a car for work.
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
TBC
What you'll get in return
You'll be working in a fast-paced environment where you can benefit from our comprehensive in-house training to continue developing your skills. We offer excellent benefits, including:
28 days annual leave plus public holidays and an additional Belief Day, with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days leave
Healthcare cashplan
Matched contribution pension scheme (up to 9%)
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Salary sacrifice schemes and season ticket loans
Life assurance scheme
Paid volunteer days
Plus lots of voluntary benefits including cash back and discounts from high street namesOur 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
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that ?everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well?; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.
This role - 30 hours per week
Working in the community as a care and support worker you will join our team providing support to vulnerable adults with low to medium Mental Health issues. You will be working with customers in Derby City in their own homes and in 3 of our supported houses. You will therefore be required to work flexibly to ensure individual needs are met while maximising independence, choice, dignity, privacy and well-being. It is essential that you have the ability to travel independently.
This service provides support to customers with Mental Health to enable them to remain independent and self-managing in their own homes. Working 30 hours a week, days to be confirmed, but between Monday and Friday 9am ? 5pm in the main. You will however need to be flexible in your working to meet customers? needs on occasion.
What youll need to succeed
As this role will involve loan working to be successful previous experience of supporting vulnerable adults is essential. You will demonstrate you understand what good support looks like and how care plans are created to achieve this.
As all of the care plans are maintained electronically you should also be confident at learning to use new IT systems at work.
This role is based through the community so it is essential that you are a driver with access to a car for work.
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
TBC
What you'll get in return
You'll be working in a fast-paced environment where you can benefit from our comprehensive in-house training to continue developing your skills. We offer excellent benefits, including:
28 days annual leave plus public holidays and an additional Belief Day, with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days leave
Healthcare cashplan
Matched contribution pension scheme (up to 9%)
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Salary sacrifice schemes and season ticket loans
Life assurance scheme
Paid volunteer days
Plus lots of voluntary benefits including cash back and discounts from high street namesOur 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