Posted Friday 13 June 2025 at 00:00 | Expires Monday 30 June 2025 at 23:59
Role: General Housing Assistant
Location: Stockport
Rota: Week 1 Tues, Wed, Week 2 Wed, Thurs, Week 3 Sat, Sun
The Abbeyfield Society are a national charity helping to alleviate loneliness and isolation in older people by providing companionship in our supported housing accommodation, retirement apartments and care homes.
This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who would be interested in joining our organisation, to support our Sheltered Housing property in Stockport. If you are looking for a rewarding role to fit around you, Abbeyfield would love for you to join us.
You can never underestimate the power a friendly face and a home cooked meal has on someone’s day. This is a varied role, with resident wellbeing at the forefront of what we do.
This is a varied role, the main tasks of a General Housing Assistant include:
* Ensure communal areas are clean and tidy
* Assist with meal preparation and serving
* Ensuring food stores and maintained with stock rotation
* Promote wellbeing of residents
* Opportunity to cook/bake on occasion to cover Cook (to be discussed further at interview)
Our ideal candidate for General Housing Assistantwill have the following qualities
* A cheerful and friendly demeanour
* Understand the needs of older people
* Proactive and organised, someone that takes pride in what they do
Why Join Abbeyfield?
We’re committed to recognising and rewarding our team members. Working with us comes with a range of benefits, including:
* Annual Leave: 25 days, increasing to 28 days after 5 years of service, plus public holidays.
* Growth & Development: Comprehensive induction and career development opportunities.
* Competitive Pay: Benchmark-based and with progression opportunities.
* Health & Wellbeing: Medicash support, Employee Assistance Programme, and discounted gym membership.
* Financial Rewards: £500 refer-a-friend scheme, life assurance, and company pension.
* Exclusive Discounts: BenefitHub and Blue Light Card discounts for social care sector workers.
* Additional Perks: Occupational sick pay, cycle-to-work scheme, and more.
Please note this role will require eligibility to work in the UK, two satisfactory employment references and a basic DBS check, the cost of which will be met by Abbeyfield. You may be asked to provide details regarding convictions; failure to disclose convictions may result in an offer of employment being revoked.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a sufficient number of applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.
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