Job Introduction
Location: Hazelwood, Whitchurch
Salary: £13.00 per hour
Contract type: Permanent
Hours of Work: 20 hours per week covering a 7 day rota
Shift Pattern: 06:45am – 15:00pm or 15:00pm to 22:00pm
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 of age a safe, secure, and caring environment.
Join our brand-new ShireLiving scheme at Whitchurch where you will play a vital role in providing compassionate care and meaningful support to our residents.
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 mornings depending on the interests of our residents.
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 and ensuring all areas and maintained and well-presented.
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
- 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
- Access to our Long Service Award Recognition
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 an 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 to ensure 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. 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.
Made With Care’:
We've linked up with the Governments recently launched ‘Made With Care’ campaign which means if you join Choices, you will be part of the biggest reform of adult social care in a generation.
There is record funding being invested to support the new social care sector including for staff training and development and if you have the values we're looking for - kindness, compassion and resilience -you will be joining a workforce dedicated to helping others and build a career that helps people live happy, healthy lives.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/adult-social-care-campaign-to-build-bigger-and-better-workforce
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, so creating a culture which is inclusive isn’t only the right thing to do, but is crucial to the success of any organisation. All of our employee networks make a positive contribution to how we are able to support all of our staff and includes networks such as our LGBTQ+ employee group, disability positive, heritage and culture and our allies’ network.
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 an Enhanced DBS Check.
