Care & Support Worker

Salary: £323,809.50
Location: Nottingham

About Us
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK’s leading providers of affordable housing and care and support services. We employ over 1,900 people to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 56,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London, the East Midlands, Southern, and the East of England.

This Role
This is a great opportunity and a rewarding role for an experienced care and support worker to join our team. In this position you will:

• Support people with various learning disabilities to remain as independent as possible.
• Be responsible for support plans and liaising with others.
• Encourage customers to be involved in social activities so they are a valuable part of the community.

Previous experience as a support worker is essential, and you will need basic literacy and IT skills for record keeping. All our services are supported housing where support is provided 24 hours a day.

To Meet Our Commitment
To providing safe, high-quality services to our customers we will complete an enhanced background check with the Disclosure and Barring Service, which will include a check of the Adult Barred list, once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• A positive approach to life.
• A desire for a rewarding career.
• A drive to see customers facing and overcoming new challenges daily.

Previous experience in a similar position is preferred, ideally with experience of handling medication and safeguarding.

Our Promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH), we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviors and to be mindful of their own and others’ wellbeing.

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people-focused business, solving social issues by working together!

What’s in it for You?
Our benefits include:

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year.
• 2 volunteering days per year for community service.
• An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year for an extra day off.
• Supported family-friendly approach with extended parental leave.
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%.
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year.
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary.
• Cycle2work scheme.
• Hybrid working dependent on job role and department.
• Health cash plan scheme for everyday healthcare needs, which you can add family members to.
• Tenancy deposit – interest-free loan to help with rental deposits and season ticket loan.
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with the Wisebox platform.
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages to stay updated and connect with colleagues.
• Career progression across the organization with mentoring/coaching programs, apprenticeships, and career planning support.
• Employee Assistance Programme – we are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues.

About Us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We provide a platform for network groups for employees to share views, recommend improvements, and create a real sense of community. Our network groups include:

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found, so we encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.