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Welfare Support Officer
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Update day: 28-04-2024
Location: Stockton-on-Tees North East
Category: Other
Industry: Facilities Services
Job type: Full-time
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Annual salary: up to £24,000.00Welfare Support Officer
Thornaby and Stockton areas
£24,000 Per Annum Depending On Experience
Full time - Permanent - 40hrs per week
Including Company vehicle and fuel card plus overtime/callout premiums
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team here at Mears as a Welfare Support Officer. Based in Thornaby and Stockton. We are offering a salary of up to £24,000 plus great company benefits which include fun days paid for by the company, discounts on high street shopping and online retailers, health insurance and much more
You will primarily be a Welfare Support Officer proving practical and emotional support to service users, monitoring service users’ wellbeing and support needs and ensuring all records are updated and accurate for home office audit purposes.
What The Role Involves
- Provide appropriate practical and emotional support ensuring that each service user has a support and risk management plan in place
- Monitor service users’ well-being and support needs, provide advice, assistance
- Ensuring all records and IT data on systems remains updated with accurate and up to date information in line with contractual requirements.
- Delivery of service through sign posting, direct referral and encouraging wider community involvement
- Management and mitigation of service user well-being risk and escalation in line with policy and procedure.
We are looking for an experienced Welfare Support Officer who can identify individual and family needs, use your own initiative and be supportive, approachable, and trustworthy to service users, clients, and colleagues.
- Experience of working with vulnerable and diverse client groups
- Ability to identify individuals and family need and recognise the required support packages to maintain independence
- To communicate effectively with colleagues and clients.
- Ability to work under own initiative.
- You will be supportive, trustworthy, a good listener, approachable and empathetic to others
What’s in for you?
- Competitive annual salary
- Company vehicle and fuel card
- 25 days annual leave
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sharesave Scheme
- Eye Test Vouchers
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work! Previous years include, Alton Towers and Drayton Manor
- Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% on coffee, weekly groceries, holidays, the list is endless.
- A friendly and dedicated team
- Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
If you feel you have skills and experience needed, please apply via the link or contact Beth on beth.dunford@mearsgroup.co.uk or 07514315737, quoting the job reference number. We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Mears Group recognise our people as our greatest asset. We are committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse associates, consumers, partners, and global communities.
“We reserve the right to close the job advert earlier than dated if we see fit”
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Deadline: 12-06-2024
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