Community Responder - Leeds, United Kingdom - Yorkshire Housing

Yorkshire Housing

Verified Company

Leeds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The role will involve a rapid response to emergencies with triage calls and physically attending when needed across Craven and South.

With no set hours, number of hours can vary depending on the workload and number of emergencies that occur. A perfect role for someone with flexibility not looking for full-time employment but wants to continue to support the Yorkshire community and keep busy

You might think of Yorkshire Housing as 'just' a housing provider, but we're so much more than that.

Yes, we own and manage nearly 20,000 homes (and counting) across Yorkshire, and make it possible for current and future customers to have a place they're proud to call home, but we're also all about making a positive difference in people's lives such as enabling our older customers to continue to live independently.

What you'll be doing?

You'll attend pendent alarm activations, checking on the wellbeing of our customers and responding to issues in our independent living schemes keeping the team and call-out record up to date.

Full details can be found in the attached role profile.

Interested. Here's what we need from you

If you can provide an exceptional level of customer service that promotes customer independence, we need you You'll have worked with older people or adults requiring support and have good knowledge of services and opportunities available for older people along with being able to administer first aid if needed.

You'll be flexible, able to use your own initiative, work well under pressure without direct supervision and have good understanding of Safeguarding.

A full driving licence and access to a car for business purposes is essential.

What's in it for you?
In return we offer
£12.63 p/h for the hours you are required plus competitive stand-by rates As a colleague at Yorkshire Housing you will also be entitled to our great rewards package

You can claim back for prescriptions, eye tests and more with our cash plan, make the most of a variety of retail discounts and take advantage of our pension scheme where we'll match your contributions up to 9%, just to name a few.

Our people's health and wellbeing is our top priority, and at Yorkshire Housing, you can make the most of our readily available wellbeing support package.

This includes access to Perkbox' Wellness Hub as well as a My GP service and free counselling with Health Assure.

Fine Print

The fine print
**You'll need an enhanced DBS check for this role.