Hourly rate: £12.32

Weekend Support Worker

Peterhead

We are offering an hourly rate of £12.32.

Are you passionate about making a different to a person life? Would you like the opportunity to provide an individual with a better quality of life?

Mears is a company uniquely placed to address the major challenges in housing and social care industries. We are a market leader in providing housing services to the affordable housing sector, and a major presence in supported living and deliver a high standard of Care Services.

About the Role:

We are looking for enthusiastic part time Support Workers to join our team to cover weekend shifts for a specific service user based in Peterhead.

The successful Support Workers will support in a range of tasks such as; household tasks and maintenance of tenancy, personal care, support with medication, nutrition and activities. Our service user likes to complete activities such as…..

• Art and crafts
• Cooking
• Getting my hair done by staff
• Nail care

Our service user has interests in......

• Watching the news
• Watching the soaps
• Listen to music
• Telling stories
• Shopping
• Going on holiday

About Them:

Our service user has Mild learning Disability and Anxiety and when anxious may show signs of apprehension or worry. At these times may require staff support and reassurance.

When feeling particularly anxious or upset, she may increase the volume of her voice and show signs of frustration, staff must always follow the behaviour support plan to ensure both staff and service user are safe.

Support worker to work on a 1:1 basis, however on days out, visiting family members and appointment staff will be required to double up.

The shift pattern will consist of Late/Sleep/Early shift pattern which are as follows:

• Early shifts 07:30-15:00
• Late shifts 15:00-22:00
• Sleepovers 22:00-07:30

For continuity of our service user this is the shift pattern we are offering.

Our Support Workers experience variety and a huge sense of reward and achievement in their daily activities where no two days are the same and we place huge emphasis on the fact that our customers are individuals, at Mears Supported Living we feel everyone deserves to be treated as such.

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
• Up to £20,000 life cover
• Enrolment onto SVQ level 2 after successful completion of your 6 month probation.
• Care Worker of the Month financial award
• Refer a friend scheme (total award up to £1000)
• Excellent training
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work 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
• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
• 20K free life cover

Role Criteria:

• Enthusiasm
• Passion
• Compassion
• The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users
• Physical fitness (not extreme!)
• Ability to manage behaviour which challenges

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

Please apply below via the link. If you have any further questions please contact Vickie on [email protected], quoting the job reference number.

Mears Group was recognised for its commitment to workplace excellence ranking 8th in the UK's Best Large Companies to Work for list! 

Mears Group is a Disability Confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant DBS/Security checks before commencement of employment.