Support Worker in Stirling

Hourly rate: £12.94

Location: Stirling

Contract Type: Zero-hour contract / Full time & Part time hours available

Are you passionate about making a difference to a person’s life or would like the opportunity to provide an individual with a better quality of life? This role might be for you.

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, delivering a high standard of Care Services.

About the Role

We are looking for a Support Worker to join our team based in Stirling for a specific gentleman. We are looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Support Worker to support our service user to live an independent life and to enjoy social activities in the community. A typical day will include support with medication, personal care, oral care, and ensuring that appropriate clothes are selected for the day ahead. This service user’s day is very routine-based, including time within and outside of the home. Our service user depends on constant reassurance throughout the day. He is able to make choices on his meals but requires support to prepare his food. Support may be required to assist with feeding. When at home, our service user can mobilise independently but requires his wheelchair to access the community. Good communication is vital for this gentleman, and he does have aids to support with this.

Our Support Workers experience variety and a huge sense of reward and achievement in their daily activities where no two days are the same. 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.

About them

Our service user is non-verbal and has a diagnosis of Hypotonic Proprioceptive difficulties, Hyper Mobility Syndrome, Scoliosis, and Global Development delay. This is a 1-1 support service at home and in the community. He has his own mobility car, so we are looking for someone that has a driving licence so this can be utilised. This is currently a 24-hour support service, working from Friday at 14.00 until Monday at 10.00, at which time our service user goes to a day centre. He would benefit from a qualified driver so he can be dropped off at his day centre on a Monday morning. When our service user becomes frustrated or agitated, he may display elements of challenging behaviour and may become vocal and grab out at support workers. There are risk assessments and care plans to support with challenging behaviours. Patience and understanding are very important for this service user; compassion is key.

Activities he enjoys:

• Playing games inside and outside of the house
• Trips out
• Walks in the community
• Likes to try new activities
• Listening to music

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
• Driver preferred

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

Benefits

• Cost of PVG covered
• Up to £20,000 life cover
• 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.

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.

If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way. At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS). In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.