Health Care Assistant

**Full Job Description**:
**_How would you like to be paid for 100% of your contractual hours, but only work 80%?*_**

**Role: Health Care Assistant**

**Salary: £23,441.60 per annum**

**Also, a petrol allowance of £250 per annum for under 10 miles away, £450 per annum for over 10 miles**

**Hours: 40 hours per week - Monday to Friday, various times**

**Location: Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria**

**Your wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance.**

**We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).**

**If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group - so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG**

Options Autism are a values-driven organisation that strives to put both our employees and residents first. We provide continuous professional development to take your career further, alongside fully accredited courses to support your development.

**Benefits**

**Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including**:

- 255 hours’ annual leave allowance, which equates to 6 weeks. This increases following two years’ service to 298 hours which equates to 7 weeks. You are also entitled to an additional days holiday for ‘one moment in time’ to celebrate a special occasion.
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
- Employee of the month vouchers
- Bank holiday bonus pay (£50 per bank holiday worked)

**And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including**:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

**And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.**

**About the Region**

At Underley Garden Children’s home, we work directly with vulnerable children with Autism and complex needs.

This home is located in the idyllic countryside of Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria and is within commutable distance from Lancaster, Morecambe, Penrith, Kendal and Skipton.

**Who are we are looking for?**

The best news is you don’t need any prior experience to join our family, just a big heart, and a passion to make a difference. You’ll understand that our Children can be challenging but will be relish that challenge and will approach it with patience, resilience, calmness, becoming their reliable go to person that helps them with their everyday needs.

Being exceptional is just a call away.

**What we need from you**:

- Full and valid UK Driving Licence
- Access to a car
- Right to Work in the UK

**We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all employees to share this commitment and undertake appropriate checks.**

Care assistant/ Support worker/ Children’s care worker/ Nights/ Children development /Working with children/ Autism
- _You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, more time for you (Dependent upon location)_