Job Introduction
Location: Whitchurch
Salary: £29,400 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week, to include evenings and weekends and on-call rota
Assessment Centre (Telford) – 3rd February 2025
Interview Date (Telford) – 7th February 2025
We have a fantastic position in our Extra Care scheme where we support people with varying needs who are over 55 years, who like to live an independent and active life.
About Hazelwood:
Our Shireliving Extra Care services provide homes for people over 55 years old, who need safety, security and reassurance with a range of care options available to meet their individual needs. Our vibrant communities within ShireLiving thrive on connection and joy, offering activities tailored to what our residents love most. Together, we create a warm, engaging environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
Our brand-new Hazelwood Extra Care home is warm, friendly, modern, state of the art building Based in Whitchurch, Hazelwood is a vibrant scheme with 71 spacious apartments with a lovely lounge area, restaurant open to public, fabulous guest facilities, garden, hobby room and parking facilities onsite.
Joining our team at Hazelwood, will mean that you will play a vital role in promoting and enabling inclusivity, individuality and independence.
We provide an exceptional standard of living to our residents with a focus on nurturing each individual to achieve personal goals to lead a meaningful life. Our residents love activities such as bingo, quizzes, dominoes and day trips. We support the residents here with personal care, medication administration, wellbeing support, and with accessing the community.
To find out more about our ShireLiving schemes, please click https://youtu.be/nPsqCzO1R-8
In this role, you will have a direct hand in making a difference to their life not only from a Care perspective but also from taking care of their Housing needs. As an Assistant Manager, you will lead, mentor, coach a team of Housing and Care Assistants to deliver person centered care to our residents.
We are looking for the below values and behaviours:
- Caring - Placing individuals at the heart of the care, ensuring services are delivered with empathy, dignity, respect, inclusivity and integrity at all times
- Compassion - Requires a level of consideration, patience, empathy and understanding towards others people’s situation and their needs
- Communication - Always listen carefully, speak to people and act in a way that the person can understand
- Courage - Not to be fearful of trying new things to improve the quality of care and raise any concerns proactively
- Commitment - Provide a positive environment, with flexible and a proactive approach to our customer’s needs, helping to make each day special. Working collaboratively with colleagues and be accountable for providing services that make a positive difference to people’s lives.
Benefits
In return, we offer you a rewarding opportunity within a supportive team of experienced mentors and peers, ensuring you thrive throughout your career.
- Continuous Professional Development with training, coaching, and mentoring
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced family friendly leave
- Free onsite parking
- Paid Carer’s leave to deal with life’s emergencies
- Access to our comprehensive training platform
- Access to a number of fantastic rewards including free and discounted tickets to popular destinations
- Access to our discounts and cashback app Rainly from day one
- Access to Blue Light Discount
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme including online counselling for life’s events
Our Inclusive Culture:
The Wrekin Housing Group is an inclusive employer committed to supporting all employees. We know that people perform better when they can be themselves, creating a culture which is inclusive is crucial to the success of our organisation. All employees have the opportunity to become part of one of our networking groups, that enables them to make a positive contribution to our culture including networks such as our LGBTQ+ employee group, disability positive, domestic abuse ambassadors, heritage and culture and our allies’ network.
About Us:
Choices Housing Association, part of the Housing Plus Group is a leading provider of homes across a range of tenures, to meet identified housing needs. We also deliver regulated care services to help people live independently.
Our dedicated and diverse colleagues are critical to our success. We value our people and offer them challenging and worthwhile careers, providing a sense of achievement in a vital sector. It is important that we offer opportunities to inspire our people to help us to make a positive difference to our customers’ homes, lives and communities.
ShireLiving offers the perfect lifestyle choice for over 55s looking to embrace retirement and plan for a hassle-free, comfortable and secure future, we support our residents to live their best life possible by promoting their personal development and independence.
Recruitment Process:
In partnership with our trusted external providers, we are committed to undertaking care and safeguarding checks with all colleagues. These checks may vary according to the role you have applied for.
We also ask for two references for everyone who is offered a position, one of which must be your current or most recent employer. All roles will also be offered subject to satisfactory right to live and work in the UK checks; if you need any further information on these checks, please visit www.gov.uk
Next steps:
To apply for this role, please submit your up-to-date CV and completed application form and we will call you for a short pre-screen call.
This role requires an Enhanced DBS
