Support Worker / Care Assistant - Honeybourne House Plymouth, England
Job description
Benefits
· Excellent ongoing training from day one and throughout your career.
· Enhanced pay for working Christmas, Boxing Day, and New Year’s Day
· Enhanced overtime rates
· Excellent Induction and regular formal supervision with your line manager
· When working a full shift, a meal will be provided
Do you want to leave work every day feeling like you have made a difference? Made someone’s day? Do you want to feel valued and make others feel the same? If so Allied Care is the opportunity that you have been looking for. Honeybourne House is waiting to hear from you.
We are a large Care company that still manages to maintain that warm family feel, with great support networks to include regular supervision, coaching, and mentoring for our staff. We keep our homes small for that personal touch and to ensure a person-centered approach for each person that lives with us. We encourage feedback from staff to allow us to continue to grow as a care company and remain connected with the staff who provide the hands-on care that we provide.
We aim to support the people that live with us to do so as independently as possible. Providing great training opportunities for our staff to ensure they have all the skills that they need to assist the lovely people that we look after, to live a safe, structured, and fulfilled lifestyle.
Honeybourne is a registered care home with 21 beds and currently has 16 lovely people residing with us who receive support from our friendly kind staff team, we would love you to join the team. Honeybourne is set over 2 units. The house where the service users needs are more residential but still require full support in all areas. The Bungalow is a nursing unit where there is a nurse on shift 24/7. The service users needs are more complex and also require support in all areas. We are looking to hire committed and compassionate staff to join our friendly, professional team, whether you have experience or not:
Staff, with NVQ 2 and experience welcomed, however, if you are looking to make a positive impact on the people’s lives that live with us but have no experience within the care industry, we still want to hear from you to give you the opportunity to join us as full training is provided. We will offer NVQ upon passing of probation.
Responsibilities and Duties
Our staff, support adults with mental ill-health conditions and learning disabilities in a care home environment, including supporting with daily living skill development, personal care, community-based activities, and working with some behaviors which may present as challenging.
Our clients require care 24/7 therefore weekend work is required but a shared responsibility to give you some free weekend time, this ensures our clients always receive the support that they need. Shifts are 7.5 hours and we are looking for part-time applicants as well as full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Driving an advantage but not essential
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £9.85-£10.85 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Store discount
Schedule:
- Day shift
COVID-19 considerations:
We have rigorous infection control and outbreak policies. Staff are provided with all necessary PPE
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Plymouth, PL5 3HA: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- We are unable to offer a sponsorship if you are already in the UK under any visa
- Please answer the following questions. Indicate NA if the questions are not applicable. Leaving questions unanswered will result in the rejection of your application.
- If applicable, what UK visa do you currently hold?
- If applicable, does your current visa allow you to work full-time? (37.5 hours per week)
- Where are you currently located?
- Do you need sponsorship?
Experience:
- care: 1 year (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: One location
