Care and Support Assistant

2 weeks ago

Canterbury, United Kingdom McCarthy Stone Full time

McCarthy Stone are recruiting a professional **Care & Support Assistant **to join our team at our prestigious **Eastry Place **Retirement Living Plus** **development in** Canterbury, Kent.**

Built in 2023, Eastry Place is a Retirement Living Plus development that consists of 50 apartments with the over 70's in mind, providing excellent on-site facilities and set within beautiful grounds.

**Hourly rate**:£11.58 per hour plus additional pay (see below)

**Hours**: 16 per week

**McCarthy Stone have a wealth of support and benefits for their staff. These include**:

- 28 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata if part time hours)
- Up to an additional £1.30 for working evening and weekend hours
- Life assurance
- Company pension
- Opportunities to stay in our guest suites across all our developments UK wide
- Discounts on apartment purchases for employees and immediate family
- Management and leadership training and support with professional qualifications
- 24/7 access to Employee Assist Programme (including counsellors and legal advisors) and access to inhouse Mental Health First Aiders

**About the role**: As a Care & Support Assistant you will provide the highest quality of individual care to our residents enabling them to live later life well. You will deliver housekeeping and domestic support across the general estate, including apartment cleans. Duties will be varied and include supporting and encouraging our residents to take part in a wide range of activities that support their health and wellbeing. You will help them to book appointments, arrange transport and where necessary, escort them on visits and assist with their shopping. Every day will be diverse, and you’ll have the opportunity to use your people skills to make a real difference.

**About you**:

- You will be a warm, friendly individual with ideally some experience of working in a care or support environment.
- You will have a passion for making a difference to the wellbeing and happiness of older people and enjoy working as part of team in a busy work setting.
- You will be driven to deliver excellent customer service.

**Why join?**

McCarthy Stone has been officially recognised as a great place to work This is a hugely rewarding role and a career to be proud of, where every day you will go home knowing you made a positive difference to the lives of older people.

As the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.

We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.

We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list

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