Job Description

Hourly rate: £13.45

Care Worker

Location: Bristol

Contract: Zero hour

Salary: £13.45 an hour, plus great company benefits.

Due to an increase in hours required, we are looking for a Care Worker to join our team!

This is a great opportunity to join our friendly and highly professional team, we respect hard work and dedication towards the local community in St Neots, 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 operate a Partners for Purpose approach to business supporting our clients helping to develop, fund and implement their placemaking ambitions. A career with Mears Group means putting people at the heart of what we do every day.

About the Role:

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

• Assisting with all elements of personal care, to ensure service users are supported in being as independent as possible in preparation for their day ahead
• Assisting service users with getting washed and dressed, preparing meals, prompting and assistance with taking medication
• Light household tasks
• Offering companionship and helping build service users confidence and independence

• Health and safety; moving and handling
• Dementia assistance
• As well as specialist areas that may be required by specific service users
• Free training induction programme (EEP)
• Free access to ongoing training in specialist training
• Free eLearning courses
• Access to health and social apprenticeships

Key Criteria:

• Willingness to work alternative weekends
• Enthusiasm
• Passion
• Compassion
• The ability to show dignity and respect to our service users
• Physical fitness (not extreme!)
• Ability to manage behaviour which challenges

No previous experience is required; full training will be provided.

Mears Benefits:

• Free uniform and DBS check
• 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

Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:

Vickie Rudge (Vickie.Rudge@mearsgroup.co.uk)

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) 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.