Household Assistant

**Household Assistant**

**Based**:Springfield’s, Ashby De La Zouch, Leicestershire

**Hours**:20 hours (Flexibility to be worked over 7 days)

**Salary**:£11.44 per hour

Are you passionate about delivering excellent care? Do you want to make a difference to people’s life’s everyday? Would you thrive in an environment that supports their employees to reach their full potential? Yes, then this is the role for you

We are seeking a Household Assistant who can provide companionship and assistance to residents whilst maintaining and maximising the person’s independence. The Household Assistants will be responsible for undertaking daily cleaning of the property’s communal areas, and support residents in their own homes.

If you feel that you would welcome a challenge, if you feel passionate about making a difference and feel that you could lead forward an innovative scheme that has the ability to change lives and achieve outstanding outcomes this is the job for you.

The newly built development of Springfield’s consists of 65 beautiful supported living apartments is situated in the heart of the National Forest. The Service provides extra care housing, alongside 24hour care and support services. The people living at the service will predominantly be adults aged over 55 years, although there will also be a small number of working aged adults with care and support needs. The scheme will be a mixed tenure of shared ownership and rented properties.

This innovative new development is designed to provide a range of services to meet the needs and aspirations of the people that live there. The scheme has staff on duty 24 hours of day who deliver packages of care to meet people assessed needs, and a management team to ensure that the scheme remains safe and compliant and works to achieve outstanding results for the people that live there.

**Do you have?**
- Experience of providing a high standard of domestic support
- An understanding of health and safety
- Energy and Enthusiasm

**About us**

emh care & support provide a range of specialist housing, support, and registered care services to meet the needs of vulnerable people and the majority of our services are based in and around Derbyshire and Leicestershire. We employ over 500 people and are ambitious about growing the business across the whole of the East Midlands.

Our vision is to be the best social housing and care business in the country, leading the market as service provider and employer.

Our values are important to us and we are looking to recruit people who can help us live our values of integrity, diversity, openness, accountability, clarity and excellence.

This is fantastic opportunity for the right person to work with a team of passionate individuals in leading the development of our care and support business.

**Company Benefits**

Our generous package includes:

- Pension Plan
- Flexible working
- A wide range of training and development opportunities (we are an Investors in People accredited organisation).

emh care & support is part of emh which provides affordable homes and related care and support services to communities across the East Midlands.

Enabling better lives is at the heart of everything we do. We help vulnerable people live an enjoyable, independent life by advocating on their behalf or by providing activities, support, care, and housing that matches their needs.

We also provide diverse housing and supported living services to a range of people whose circumstances have made their lives or their housing vulnerable, such as teenage parents, older people, and homeless people.

The people we support can access daytime activities through an exciting programme that takes place at venues across Derbyshire. We also work with the community, such as universities and doctors, to provide better access to information for our client groups.