Committed and Enthusiastic Support Workers in Wandsworth - 3 X 37.5 hours per week , 1 X 30 hours per week and 1 x 20 hours per week

About Mencap

At Mencap we work in partnership with people with a learning disability. We do this by providing high quality, flexible services that support people, including young adults, to live as independently as possible in their own homes and in the community.

Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something really meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You`ll have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist.

You will feel inspired to reach your potential. We will ask a lot of you - but you will get back so much more. With us, it is never `just a job`. In return for your hard work and passion, we can give you real meaning and purpose in your work.

Who you will be supporting

We are looking to recruit committed and enthusiastic Support Workers to work in our two Supported Living Homes in Wandsworth. Six people (four women and two men) live in one home and two men live in the other. Successful candidates may be required to work at one or both services and suitability will be assessed at interview and service visit. The successful candidate will work closely with the residents to ensure they live as independently as possible and achieve their ambitions. The successful candidate will be expected to support the residents with meal planning, cooking, personal care and ensure they take their medication; they will work alongside the residents to ascertain their goals and support them to achieve their goals. The eight people who live at the properties have various support needs, some are quite independent and access the community independently and some require more support. Sleep in`s will be required for both services.

The role

You must be willing to work flexibly as and when required. You will work on a rota basis throughout the week and at weekends including Bank Holidays.

One of the most amazing things about being a Support Worker is the difference you can make and no two days are the same. As long as you have a positive attitude and want to improve the lives of those with a learning disability, we will support you with progression opportunities throughout your career with us.

For further details of this role, please click on the attachments at the bottom of this advertisement.

Benefits

At Mencap we recognise and acknowledge our employee`s achievements. How we do this is through `You Rock` which is our way to say thanks and well done to colleagues and volunteers. Our people that demonstrate going far and above have the chance to be rewarded through a You Rock `Treat` Our training is awarding winning. We are recognised as a `Centre of Excellence` by Skills for Care. This means that we have demonstrated exemplary learning and development provision, exhibited innovation and continual development. To achieve this, we had to be able to prove that we have delivered high quality improvement to the services we work with. We also show full commitment to the Leadership Qualities Framework. This means that our training clearly helps to develop the attitudes and behaviours needed for high quality leadership at all levels across the social care workforce.

Developing our employees is important to us and through `Shape your future` (what we call our performance appraisal framework) we are able to understand how each individual employee efforts help us all achieve our goal of making a difference to the lives of people with a learning disability. This is done by managers and their team members having meaningful conversations about their day to day job, how they are contributing towards our goals and most importantly, how they demonstrate the values that are so important in everything we do.

We believe that our people are amazing and we wouldn't be able to achieve what we do without them. Any colleague rated as Excellent in their Shape Your Future performance review will be eligible to apply to our `You`ve Got Talent` (YGT) program.

YGT is the name of our talent programme which provides opportunities for our people to develop themselves and their career. If you are accepted onto YGT you will have the chance to join a working project that is connected to one of priority areas for our strategic plan, you will be assigned a management mentor, join our leadership training programme or may be offered a bursary to undertake some additional training.

We offer a competitive holiday allowance of 28 days per year annual leave entitlement* (including bank holidays) rising by 1 day per year for completed service to a maximum of 35 days.

Our standard pension scheme with NEST has Mencap paying matching contributions. If eligible, you will be automatically enrolled into NEST within three months of joining.

Being an employee means that you have exclusive access to Mencap Extras, an online portal offering discounts at high street shops including major super markets, cinemas, gyms, visits to leisure / theme parks, holidays - flights and hotel bookings and much more. Discounts come in various forms and can vary from 3% to 30%.

Other standard benefits include

- Childcare vouchers
- Salary exchange offers for items such as tablets & laptops, other salary exchange offers include
- PhonePlus enables you to get the latest handset and make monthly payments direct from your pay
- Tax Free Bicycles, a cycle2work scheme which opens for a fixed period each year
- Holidayplus, which allows our employees to buy extra holiday
- Health Cash Plan which is open to all employees
- At Mencap, we are so much more than an employer and you are far more than just an employee