Care Worker

Care Worker

Location: Nichols Court – Linton

Contract Type: Zero-hour contract

Hourly rate: £12.60 an hour, plus great company benefits.

This is a great opportunity to join our friendly and highly professional team, we respect hard work and dedication towards the local community in Whittlesey, we offer competitive salaries plus some impressive benefits and training opportunities. 

We are one of the UK’s leading housing and care providers offering solutions to both the private and public sectors with over 5,500 employees.

We have built on our work to integrate housing and care contracts, at the front-line delivery of service but also in the creation of new specialist accommodation, such as Supported Living housing and Extra Care property.

About the Role:

Care Workers really make a difference to the lives of our service users, offering a highly personal service you will be helping to enable people to live as independently as possible in their own home, by providing the best standards of care and support.  

Nichols Court is based in one location, across 3 floors and houses 40 independent flats, so a driving license is not required for this role, as long as you can get to work.

Shifts available are 7am – 11am, 7am - 2pm, 2pn - 10pm and 10pm until 7am.

You will be required to:

• Assist with all elements of personal care, to ensure service users are supported in being as independent as possible in preparation for their day ahead; washing, dressing, support with administering medication

• Assisting service users with preparing healthy meals

• Light household chores around the flats

• Offering companionship and helping build service users confidence and independence 

Key Criteria:

• Successful candidates must be willing to work alternate weekends

• No previous experience is required, full training will be provided. 

• Practical subject such as cooking and household responsibilities 

• Health and safety; moving and handling 

• Personal care 

• Medication 

• Dementia assistance 

Mears Benefits

• Free uniform and paid for DBS check

• Enrolment onto NVQ level 2 after successful completion of your 6 month probation.

• Refer a friend scheme (entitlement up to £1000) 

• Incentive payments made, once training and probationary periods have been completed 

• Pension scheme 

• Cycle to work scheme 

• Share saver scheme 

• 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 Alton Towers, Drayton Manor where your entrance and lunch will be paid for. 

• Care Worker of the Month Award 

• Mears Connect Discounts – include discounts and money back on high street shops, holidays, groceries, and lots more 

• Paid volunteering leave

• Offering a range of shifts to balance home and work life. 

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.

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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) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

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.