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Care Assistant

At One Housing, we don’t only believe that everyone deserves a safe, secure, affordable home. We also believe that everyone deserves to realise their full potential and lead a fulfilling life. Our Mental Health team is vital to helping us deliver on this vision. We work to transform the life experience of people with mental health support needs. The support we provide is delivered in a range of settings (like supported housing, assessment centres and outreach) and our customers’ support needs can include psychosis, forensic and personality disorders.

Join our Mental Health team as a Care & Support Assistant

We have spent the last 10 years designing our services to be fully psychologically informed. Most of our services have specialist therapeutic input and colleagues have access to specialised mental health training delivered by MH professionals. All our services provide regular reflective practice spaces to our colleagues to formulate complex cases and find constructive ways forward. All these measures make us the ideal partner for NHS trusts across London with whom we deliver several integrated services.

The role

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Care & Support Assistant.

Location: Camden

Salary: £23,303

Hours: 37.5 Hours a week, Early & Late shifts on a rolling rota (8am-4pm / 2pm-10pm) Every other weekend

Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide personal care and administer medication when required
• To ensure support and care plans are developed to meet assessed needs
• Keep all customer records up to date – both in paper files and on the care & support database.
• Manage customer risk by ensuring close monitoring of customers health
• To plan and participate in group and individual activities
• Personal care
• Emotional support

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
friendly, engaged and committed to achieving great outcomes for our customers.

The successful candidate will:

The offer

Our Life@One benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.

• Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
• Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each year.
• Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
• Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.
• Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
• Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
• We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
• Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
• Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

About us

As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and their workforce reflects that. 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 Mental Health team.

Job Reference: OH00495