Hourly rate: £12.60
Care Worker
Location: Doddington
Contract: Zero hour contract
Salary: £12:60 an hour, plus company benefits
We are looking for empathetic, passionate and hardworking Care Workers for our Our Extra Care Scheme located in Doddington.
Duties will vary on a day to day basis, we value our service users and encourage them to be as independent as possible.
General day to day duties may include supporting with personal care needs, prompting, or assisting with medication, preparing and serving meals, additional activities that support their health and well-being.
We aim to work in partnership with commissioners and others to develop and deliver high-quality care in the community to vulnerable people. Our goal is to provide housing with care based on an enabling approach with an outcome focused support planning process.
As a large provider of social care services, Mears works collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams to address challenges in the social care marketplace.
We are Mears Extra Care Ltd, providing a range of care and support services to people in their own homes.
About the role:
Our main priority for this job role is to find the right people with the right values, skills attitudes that match our own! We’re seeking to recruit some great new Care Workers; people with the right values and behaviours to work in our care service – could this be you?
You don’t need to have previous experience in this field, nor do you need qualifications – we’re happy to work with you to help you become an excellent care worker.
Above all we want someone that shares in our values. These are:
1. a commitment to quality and being the best we can
2. treating the people we support with compassion
3. showing dignity and respect to the people we will be working with
4. having trust and respect for all members of our team.
Key Criteria:
5. Compassion
6. Empathy
7. Ability to put people first
Benefits:
8. Cost of DBS covered
9. Enrolment onto NVQ level 2 after successful completion of your 6 month probation.
10. Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.
11. Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch
12. Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
13. Incentive payment for experienced care workers (£350)
14. Care Worker of the Month financial award
15. Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more
16. Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)
17. Excellent training
18. Pension scheme
19. Cycle to work scheme
20. Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
21. Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.
Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant Background, Identity & Security checks before commencement of employment.