Care Assistant

**Care Assistant**
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.

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**

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 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 keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

Roden Court Assisted Living is situated between Highgate Village and Crouch End in the north London borough of Haringey. We offer an alternative to residential care for over 55s, ensuring housing, social, health, support and care needs are met, within independent fully supported one and two bedroomed flats.

**The role**
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of** Care Assistant**

**Salary**: £25119 per annum
**Location**: Haringey, London
**Shifts**: 37.5 hours per week. Earlies and lates 7am - 3pm / 2pm - 10pm, including one weekend on and one weekend off

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.
- Be able to work flexibly and in a busy environment
- Ability to communicate with customers, their families and friends and giving accurate feedback to the management team

**The offer**
- **Salary**: £25119
- **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]
- **Lean travel.** Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
- **Get paid to do good.** We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
- **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 our workforce reflects that. As of December 2021, One Housing merged with the Riverside Group, creating one of the country's largest housing associations, with more than 75,000 homes. This follows a shared recognition that we are better and stronger together; and that when we combine, we will be able to do more for our customers and the communities we serve.

At One Housing, our people are our strength which is why we work very hard to enable all employees to bring their authentic self to work. This commitment is reflected in our hybrid working policy, our diversity groups support network, our wellbeing initiatives and our employee benefits.

We understand that 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.

Job Reference: OH00575