Care Assistant - London, United Kingdom - One Housing Group

One Housing Group

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Care Assistant (Casual)
We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.
We are part of Riverside, a group of complementary businesses with a charitable housing association at its core.

We believe in creating places that people can call home, supporting people to live well and building lasting homes and communities.

Our Care team is friendly and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide.

We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to peoples' lives, each and every day.

Join our Care team as a Care Assistant (Casual)

Working in Care can be demanding, but our colleagues are always kind and compassionate no matter what challenges they encounter.

Working as a Care Assistant (Casual) is not only varied and interesting, it's incredibly rewarding.

As part of our team you will be doing work you can be proud of, ensuring the safety and happiness of our customers in their home.

We're an organisation with strong values. We Care, We are Inclusive and We are Trusted. This is what makes us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision of Transforming Lives, Revitalising Neighbourhoods

The role
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Care Assistant (Casual) in London.

Roden Court is an Assisted Living service, situated between Highgate Village and Crouch End in the north London borough of Haringey.

We offer an alternative to residential care for over 55s.

We ensure housing, social, health, support and care needs are met within independent fully supported one and two bedroomed flats.

Salary:
£13.15 per hour + £1.65 (per hour holiday pay for casual staff)

Location:
Haringey

Shifts:
Casual work as required by the business, which may include weekends

Your responsibilities will include:

To provide assistance and/or guidance where needed with personal care, e.g. taking medicines, shaving, and intensive personal or intimate care in circumstances where this is required.
To carry out tasks including shopping, cleaning, ironing, cooking, collecting benefits and/or prescriptions, and escorting to attend appointments whilst promoting individual independence
To monitor the physical and emotional health of customers and take necessary action
To participate in and monitor care plans

What you will need to succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is positive and friendly.

Be able to work flexibly and in a busy environment
Ability to communicate with customers, their families and friends and give accurate feedback to the management team

The offer
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Salary:
£13.15 per hour + £1.

65 (per hour holiday pay for casual staff)**:
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Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 20 days annual leave plus bank holidays.[Care (non managerial,
- nurses & hospitality staff)
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Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.[Care (managerial -inc Care Coordinators, Care Service Managers, General Managers etc]
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Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
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Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
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Well done With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you've done a #greatjob
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Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
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We're here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/-
Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
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Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years' continuous service.

About us
One Housing is a subsidiary of the Riverside Group.

The Riverside Group was established more than 90 years ago, and is now a leading provider of affordable housing, care and support services in England and Scotland.

The group manages more than 75,000 homes and operates across 160 local authorities.

Riverside transforms lives by providing well maintained, high-quality housing while creating new opportunities for customers through job schemes, affordable warmth programmes, and money advice.

Working in some of the most diverse communities in the UK, we understand the strength we gain from having and supporting our diverse teams.

The different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different