About the role
Everyone is different but what stays the same is our commitment to offering high standards of care to all our residents regardless of their care needs - enabling them to live their best lives. Our residents tell us how important our Care Workers are to them, being a friendly face, brightening their day and helping to make life worth living by doing the simplest of things. Tasks can include:
1. Supporting with household and domestic tasks, such as laundry, shopping, cleaning, and financial transactions such as paying bills.
2. Making meals, drinks and snacks where necessary.
3. Encouraging and enabling residents to follow agreed care plans.
4. Assisting residents with getting up in the morning, providing personal care including washing / bathing and dressing; helping with undressing and going to bed in the evening, as well as providing help and ensuring medication is taken as required.
5. Putting resident wellbeing at the heart of the service, going the extra mile to ensure our residents can live their best lives and ensuring managers and key agencies are kept informed of progress.
Hours: 20 per week
Are you looking for a career that's both rewarding and offers opportunities to develop, but dread the thought of a desk job? Are you a people person who can strike up a conversation with anyone? Do you want to finish work knowing you've made a real difference to someone's life? If this sounds like you - we've got the perfect match!
As a Care Worker with Housing 21 you'll be part of a friendly, supportive team supporting residents in their own apartments within our schemes, which feature communal lounges, gardens, cafés/bistros, and hair salons. You'll build strong relationships with familiar residents and colleagues every day, feeling part of the Extra Care family. We want to ensure you feel valued and have developed our offer to set us apart from the wider care sector.
Care Worker requirements:
* No experience or qualifications needed; a positive attitude and kind manner suffice.
* If you've cared for a relative, raised children, or helped a neighbour, you already possess many of the skills we seek.
* We offer full training and recognised qualifications, with opportunities to progress into management roles via our Extra Care Academy.
Essential qualities include:
* Kindness and friendliness
* Good written and verbal English communication skills
* Commitment to further training
* A genuine desire to help people
* Reliability and flexibility
* Initiative and calmness under pressure
Housing 21 is rated as the UK's third Best Place to Work in 2024 by Glassdoor. We support our staff through flexible working, learning opportunities, and a friendly workplace culture. Our career pathways can lead to salaries of up to £50,000!
This role allows you to make a real difference, helping residents live independently. We offer a range of benefits:
* Paid by the hour (£13.32/hour, full-time equivalent £24,306/year based on 35 hours/week)
* Holiday Pay, Sick Pay, Maternity Pay, Health Cash Plan
* Support for qualifications and career progression
* Additional benefits including Blue Light Card discounts, Car Lease, Cycle to Work, Uniform, Employee Assistance, and hourly enhancements for Level 2 qualifications
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