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.
The successful candidate will:
- Have experience of providing support to others in a work, voluntary or personal capacity, we’re also happy to accept applications from those without care experience, who would like to get into caring.
- 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 Our Life@One benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.
- Salary: £13.15 per hour + £1.65 (per hour holiday pay for casual staff)
- Your holidays are important to us.
Take up to 20 days annual leave plus bank holidays.[Care (non managerial, nurses & hospitality staff) - •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]
Peniel 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 views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone. Apply today for a fulfilling career in our Care team. Please note that the application closing date is included as a guide and adverts may be withdrawn and vacancies closed before the guide date indicated. We recommend that if you are interested in applying for this role that you do not delay in submitting your application.
Job Reference: OH00770