Care Support Worker

What we’re looking for:

Peabody is recruiting for permanent, full and part time Care Support Workers for our services in Halstead, Essex.

Do you have;

• Experience working with adults with learning disabilities?

• The ability to provide compassionate support with personal care?

• Passion for making a real difference to people’s lives, and supporting people to be independent, safe, healthy and happy?

If so, this role is perfect for you!

A bit about the role:

As a Care Support Worker you will be you will assist people to live well, be independent and connected to their own community. You will support people with kindness and compassion ensuring that they are assisted to make choices and be involved in all aspects of their life. Some of the key results for the role include:

• Providing social, practical and emotional support to customers so that the individual supported can achieve their personal goals and aspirations.

• Where required support people with all activities of daily living including providing personal care in a way that respects their dignity.

• Participating actively in personalised support planning, ensuing that the person we support has maximum choice and control in their life

• Bringing ideas and enthusiasm to your role, search out new and innovative opportunities with the people you support.

• Protecting the safety of the people you are supporting, following all management plans consistently including those relating to health, diet, medication, finances and behaviour.

This role will require a Enhanced DBS check.

A bit about us:

160 years after it was established, Peabody is one of the oldest not-for-profit housing associations in the UK. The Peabody Group is responsible for more than 104,000 homes, with around 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties. We also have around 20,000 care and support customers.

Our purpose is to help people flourish, and we are getting closer to residents by taking a local approach.

We are committed to delivering a responsive and easily accessible repairs service and investing in our existing homes so they are safe and well maintained. Our retrofit projects will make thousands of our homes more energy efficient.

We work with councils and communities to promote economic inclusion, tackle inequality and poverty, and prioritise wellbeing.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

• 25 days' annual holiday plus bank holidays

• Paid travel expenses, including mileage

• Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates

• Two additional paid volunteering days each year

• Flexible benefits scheme, including family friendly benefits and access to a discount portal

• Paid DBS check

Are you ready to apply?

To be considered for the Care Support Worker, please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role.

If you need to ask us anything else at all, feel free to drop an email to recruitment@peabody.org.uk and one of our team will be in touch.