Job Introduction
Location: Shrewsbury
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £13.32 per hour
Hours: Zero hour contract
Shift pattern: Various shifts
The role:
Are you looking for a fresh challenge where you can showcase your caring and understanding nature? Our ShireLiving or supported housing facilities provide people over 55 years old a safe, secure, and caring environment.
This is a fantastic opportunity where you will become a key part of the team to deliver care and support to our residents. At Ashwood, we support approximately 20 people in one building who have active and independent lives, go out and about on their own or request support sometimes. We also have a lot of fun activities such as bingo, or coffee morning, pamper mornings, coffee and cake time to name a few.
No two days are the same in this role where you will be involved in meal time support, personal care, administering medication, tenant support, health and safety checks, welfare checks, maintain all areas clean and well-presented according to individual care and support plans.
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
- Enhanced maternity, shared parental, and adoption leave
- Free onsite parking
- Paid Carer’s leave
- You will have 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
What you will be doing:
- Delivering the best possible levels of care and tenant support to the people you support, to help the individuals to achieve their personal goals and live as independently as possible
- Assisting potential residents with booking and coordinating viewings
- Respond to planned and emergency care requirements via alarm system
- Everything you do within your role will provide flexible services that meet people’s needs, and support them to have choices about their own lives
About you:
- You will enjoy working in harmony with the team proactively and collaboratively for positive outcomes for our residents
- You will be someone who would embrace processes and procedures along with adding in a good measure of your creativity
- You will be open to new ideas and thinking out of the box
- As the shift patterns are based on our resident's changing needs, flexibility is required
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 and 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.
We support adults with learning disabilities to live their best life possible by promoting their personal development and independence.
Recruitment process:
To apply for this role, please click on the apply button and complete the values-based screening questions. Following this, if you are successful one of the team will contact you to discuss the next stages of the process. Interviews will be held on and ongoing basis throughout the recruitment campaign.
Next Steps:
To apply for this role, please submit an application.
This position does not offer sponsorship, and successful candidates will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK.
This role requires and Enhanced DBS Check
*Terms and Conditions are subject to review and may be amended from time to time, any changes to benefits advertised would be discussed during offer and onboarding.
