Care Assistant - Newton Longville, United Kingdom - Hightown Housing Association
Description
About Us
At Hightown, we're a housing charity that
builds homes and support people.
In Newton Longville, near Bletchley, Milton Keynes we provide
high-quality care and support to adults with learning and physical disabilities.
We are looking for some great new Care Assistants to join our team who have the right values, behaviours and attitudes to be the difference.
Who we are looking for
We're keen to recruit individuals who care regardless of qualifications or experience.
We care more about you sharing and demonstrating our values, which are:
- Putting our residents and service users
first: - Treating people with
respect, promoting independence and choice - Developing
passionate and committed teams - Being
cost effective without compromising standards or safety
We will give you all the training and support you need to do the role including a qualification in health and social care, if you don't already have one.
We have full and part time roles available (22.5 hours, 30 hours & 37.5 hours per week).
Typical shift rotas are 0700 to 1500 / 1400 to 2200 including some weekend working.
About the Role
You'll be empowering our service users to
lead the life they want and you'll support them to get involved with the community and maintain relationships with their friends and families.
You'll join
a strong, supportive team who are great communicators and able to engage with our residents who are mainly nonverbal or who have limited verbal communication skills.
be the difference to someone's life.
To be considered for this role you will need to be able to work in the uk (between 22.5 & 37.5 hours without restrictions) and have a valid UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.
Benefits
In return for your hard work and commitment, we offer a benefits package which includes:
- Generous annual leave allowance of
33 days per year, including statutory bank holidays, rising to 35 days with service
- Mileage paid for car usage
- Fully paid DBS
- Annual bonus based on satisfactory performance
- Monthly attendance bonus on top of your basic salary
- Regular support from your line manager and colleagues
- Commitment to health and wellbeing with the Five Ways to Wellbeing
- Ongoing professional development and support to deliver outstanding care
- Workplace pension scheme and life assurance of three times your annual salary
- Employee assistance helpline
Due to the full and part time hours of all our vacancies we cannot consider applicants who have restrictions on their working hours, all applicants will need to demonstrate the right to work in the UK for more than 22 hours per week minimum.
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We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.We are a Disability Confident Employer.
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