Live on Site Support Worker and Premises Caretaker
Live on Site Support Worker and Premises Caretaker
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Job Description
Youll be working at East Boro Housing Care and SupportTrust as part of the Aster Group. As an overnight onsite Support Worker youll help to provide a secure happy and supportive environment within Cranford Avenue in Weymouth. Youll live on site as a sleep in Support Worker where 8 of our service users reside ensuring an environment that is clean tidy warm and inviting.
This is a sleep in role where you will be sleeping in your own flat providing on call service to 8 residents in Cranford Ave for 5 nights a week for 30.00 per sleeping night from 10pm 8.30am. The flat is attached to Cranford Avenue as part of the tied accommodation. Further information relating to the rent for the property is available on request and will be discussed at interview.
We also have opportunities for you to work extra hours as a Care and Support worker in the day on top of this role.
Key responsibilities
Safeguarding is everybodys business. The welfare and safeguarding of our service users is paramount as is your role and your level of responsibility is within the organisation.
Youll provide safe reliable compassionate support that is centred on the individual needs and wishes of each service user. This involves respecting each Service Users choices and always promoting their dignity.
Youll respond at Night if woken by Service Users using their telephone emergency system and provide support and reassurance when required.
About us
At East Boro we specialising in housing andsupportservices for the elderly adults with learning disabilities and othervulnerablepeople we seek to provide our residents with more than just a home. Ourcustomersare our reason for being so we try toinvolvecustomers in everything we haveprovidedcare and support services since 1960 and currentlyservea range of customers withdifferentneeds.
About you
You will need:
- Good communication skills
- Basic literacy and numeracy skills
- To be compassionate and patient
- Experience in a caring industry
- Confident and comfortable lone working
- To pass our DBS check or be on the DBS update service
- Verify your right to work in the UK.
- Completed your Care Certificate or hold an NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent qualification.
Even better if you have previous experience of a working for a personalised care services for adults ofwith physical learning and mental disabilities and providing personal care.
EBHT as part of the Aster Group is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & its subsidiary brands.
We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:
- A focus on colleague wellbeing workshops an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support mental health training and a health cash plan
- We invest in colleagues careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
- Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
- Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
- Savings at cinemas gyms holidays days out various shops and eateries and lots more
- We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives and monthly and annual awards
Please notewe are actively shortlisting candidates throughout the duration of the advert interviews will be held as soon as possible and we will make an offer immediatelyif we find the right without delay!
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The Company
Our Housing and Independent Living teams provide a comprehensive range of housingrelated services to more than 75000 customers.
The team acts as landlord of more than 28000 homes owned and managed by us and offers a variety of supporting options designed to help elderly and vulnerable customers to continue living their lives independently. Some of the business functions include customer accounts lettings customer services & neighbourhood management.
The Benefits
Please have a look below at just some of the benefits we offer....
Cycle2Work
scheme
Employee assistance programme
Develop
your career
Keeping fit
in the gym
Volunteering
days
Flexible
working
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Employment Type
Part-Time
