Job role: Care and Support Worker.
Job sector: Healthcare.
Job Type: Full-time.
Country: United Kingdom.
Location: Teddington.
Salary: £20,319 per year.
Shift & Schedule:
- 10-hour shift.
- Night shift.
- Day shift.
Benefits;
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part-time) per year.
- 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities.
- An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra day off.
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%.
- Life assurance covers 3 x your salary.
- Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members to.
- Tenancy deposit – interest-free loan to help with rental deposits.
- Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with the Wisebox platform.
- Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organizational activity and link in with colleagues.
- Career progression across the organization with our mentoring program and apprenticeships.
- We are committed to the well-being of our colleagues and support this as an organization.
About the job.
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 neighborhoods 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.
As a care and support worker, you will join our team providing 24-hour support to vulnerable adults with learning disabilities in Twickenham. You will be responsible for the delivery of outstanding care to the people we support. We are looking for motivated individuals who want a rewarding role as part of a service that makes a difference.
Our activities of support vary from daily living skills, personal care, travel escorts, mobility, medication, the teaching of independent living skills, and assistance with accessing community-based activities such as going to college, swimming, cinema, work placements, and other social and leisure activities.
This service supports 7 customers in Langdon Park in Twickenham. Each customer has unique learning disabilities and individual care requirements. The focus is on the customers, maintaining independent living within a residential setting, and achieving social inclusion.
You will be required to work flexibly over a seven-day rota including bank holidays. This role requires Day with sleep-in shift duties predominantly, however, there may be a need to work night shifts, dependent on the needs of the service. This is permanent full-time time 37.5 hours per week.
Key responsibilities;
- You will need to be enthusiastic and creative to provide the best person-centered support possible.
- Provide personal care dependent on customers’ needs.
- Some customers have mobility issues and need support using the toilet, washing, getting dressed, and support with eating.
- Administer Medication as needed.
- You will be expected to monitor the customers throughout the shift, do health and safety checks, form daily logs, clean the house, give handovers, sign off risk assessments/guidelines, and complete online training.
- Be prepared to work with people who present challenging behaviour.
- Ability to problem-solve and de-escalate crises.
- Good Writing skills in care plans.
- Ability to establish and maintain useful and mutually beneficial joint-working relationships with families and carers of our residents.
Requirements;
- Experience working with vulnerable people with Autism and Learning Disabilities.
- Strong values and person-centered approach.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Flexible and willing to work shifts to meet the needs of the service.
- Individuals who are enthusiastic, resilient, energetic, and proactive.
- Computer literacy and ability to conduct data entry.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to relate effectively with co-workers and patients.
- Ability to problem-solve and de-escalate crises.
- Knowledge of care plans and maintaining them.