Hours of Work: 30 hours per week to include evenings and weekends
Shift Pattern: Shifts will be between the hours of 7:30am and 21:30pm
Interviews: Week commencing 10th February 2025
Are you seeking a new challenge that lets you shine with your caring and compassionate nature? If you are looking to build a meaningful career rather than just finding your next job, we would love to hear from you!
About Holdcroft Road:
At Holdcroft Road, we provide a diverse range of care to individuals with learning and physical disabilities along with safety, security, and reassurance with a range of care options available to meet their individual needs. Our vibrant communities thrive on connection and joy, offering activities tailored to what our residents love most. Together, we create a warm, engaging environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
Here at Holdcroft, which is rated ‘Good’ by CQC, we offer a wide variety of community access, such as visits to cafes and lunches out, day trips, bingo, coffee mornings, pamper sessions, and musical sessions. We support up to 6 individuals, both males and females, with everyday support including personal care, meal time support, medicine administration, managing finances, and help with budgeting. We also support with PEG care and specified SALT recommended diets. We support with supermarket shopping and special visits, such as trips to Blackpool, the zoo, and theatre trips.
Joining our team at Holdcroft Road will mean that you will play a vital role in promoting and enabling inclusivity, individuality, and independence through respectfully supporting our tenants who lead active lives exploring their interests.
We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate that they uphold our values, to ensure that the services to our customers are excellent. As a Support Worker, you will bring the below values and behaviours:
* Caring - Placing individuals at the heart of the care, ensuring services are delivered with empathy, dignity, respect, inclusivity, and integrity at all times.
* Compassion - Requires a level of consideration, patience, empathy, and understanding towards other people’s situations and their needs.
* Communication - Always listen carefully, speak to people, and act in a way that the person can understand.
* Courage - Not to be fearful of trying new things to improve the quality of care and raise any concerns proactively.
* Commitment - Provide a positive environment, with a flexible and proactive approach to our customer’s needs, helping to make each day special. Work collaboratively with colleagues and be accountable for providing services that make a positive difference to people’s lives.
If you are a caring, compassionate person with good communication skills, and committed to delivering quality care and support services, then this could be the career opportunity for you!
Further details of the role, responsibilities, and requirements are available in the Job description and Person Specification attached.
In return, we offer you a rewarding opportunity within a supportive team of experienced mentors and peers, ensuring you thrive throughout your career.
* Continuous professional development with training, coaching, and mentoring.
* Enhanced maternity, shared parental, and adoption leave.
* Free onsite parking.
* Paid Carer’s leave.
* You will have access to our comprehensive training platform.
* Access to a number of fantastic rewards including free and discounted tickets to popular destinations.
* Access to our discounts and cashback app Rainly from day one.
* Access to Blue Light Discount.
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
* Cycle to work scheme.
Our Inclusive Culture:
The Wrekin Housing Group is an inclusive employer committed to supporting all employees. We know that people perform better when they can be themselves, and creating a culture that is inclusive is crucial to the success of our organisation. All employees have the opportunity to become part of one of our networking groups that enables them to make a positive contribution to our culture including networks such as our LGBTQ+ employee group, disability positive, domestic abuse ambassadors, heritage and culture, and our allies’ network.
About Us:
Choices Housing Association, part of the Housing Plus Group, is a leading provider of homes across a range of tenures, to meet identified housing needs and regulated care services to help people live independently.
Our dedicated and diverse colleagues are critical to our success. We value our people and offer them challenging and worthwhile careers, providing a sense of achievement in a vital sector. It is important that we offer opportunities to inspire our people to help us to make a positive difference to our customers’ homes, lives, and communities.
We support adults with learning disabilities to live their best life possible by promoting their personal development and independence.
Recruitment process:
To apply for this role, please click on the apply button and complete the values-based screening questions. Following this, if you are successful, one of the team will contact you to discuss the next stages of the process.
This role requires an Enhanced DBS Check.
This position does not offer sponsorship, and successful candidates will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK.
Job Reference: wrekinhousinggroup/TP/751/106
Contract Type: Part Time / Permanent
Closing Date: 11 February 2025
Job Category: Care & Support
Business Unit: Care and Support
Location: Holdcroft Road, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
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