Care Administrator

Salary**£21,517 per annum pro rata**
- Location**Penrith, Newton House**
- This is a _
- permanent_
- , _
- part time_
- vacancy_
- that will close _
- in 12 days_
- at 23:59 BST_
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**The vacancy**

**Hours: 25 hours per week**

**Shift Pattern: Working Monday to Friday**

Are you passionate about making a positive difference and providing high quality services? Do you really care about people? Want great benefits, flexible working and learning and development opportunities to boot? You’ll fit in well here.

We’re growing. Quickly. In the last three years alone we have commissioned 16 new Extra Care schemes that provide quality housing and care for older people of modest means. We’re constantly looking for ways to make things better, always putting our residents and people at the heart of what we do.

We have big ambitions and are looking for superstars to join us.

In Extra Care, our residents live independently in their own homes within one of our schemes, complete with communal lounges, gardens, cafés/bistros and salons. As Care Administrator with Housing 21, you will provide a general administrative service within an Extra Care Scheme to support the Schemes care objectives.

Main responsibilities of the job include:
- Inputting the weekly hours and support with the rostering of care workers
- Processing and monitoring all care staff annual leave
- Organising and managing staff training events
- Creating and maintaining staff files
- Assisting the management team with the recruitment process
- Responding promptly and efficiently to customer enquiries received
- Shift Pattern: 5 days per week- Good working knowledge of outlook, word and excel (Essential)
- Significant office administration experience (Essential)
- Experience in minute taking (Desirable)
- Knowledge of basic payroll and invoicing processes (Desirable)
- Experience working in a care service (Desirable)

**The benefits**
At Housing 21 we’re proud to be bucking the trend as a care provider by actively recognising the importance of our employees and rewarding them accordingly. You will receive:
- Pension scheme
- Holiday pay
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Occupational Sick Pay
- Occupational Maternity/Paternity Pay
- Health Cash Plan
- Blue Light Card (offering discounts across retail, hospitality and leisure)
- Income protection
- Eye care vouchers
- Car lease scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Support to progress and develop

**About us**

We know that great people make a great organisation, which is why we put people at the heart of everything we do. You are as valuable to us as our corporate employees, which is why we offer occupational sick pay, occupational maternity and paternity pay and benefits such as the Blue Light Card to all our Extra Care employees.

We’re proud to be an Investors in People (IIP) Platinum organisation, which shows that not only do we actively empower our people to be the best they can be through continued training and development, but we also seek to constantly improve the ways we work. You shouldn’t have to choose between a career and care, and we want to support you to advance your career with us, which is why we have a dedicated learning pathway through our Extra Care Academy that could lead to future roles with salaries of £50,000 A career in care means you can make a difference and help our residents to live independently in their own homes.

**Benefits**

**Blue Light**
**Card**

Discounted retail, leisure and hospitality

**Holiday trade**
**scheme**

**Funded health**
**cash plan**

**Occupational maternity pay / paternity pay**

**Pension**
**contributions**

**Occupational sick pay**

**Eyecare**
**vouchers**

**Car salary sacrifice and leasing scheme**

**Learning and development opportunities**

Benefit entitlements are confirmed with your offer of employment.