Apprentice Care Assistant

**Apprentice Care Assistant - Kempston**
We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. We believe in investing in our colleagues’ careers, and our Apprenticeship programme is designed to ensure you have all the support you need to get ahead from dayone.
The One Housing Care & Support Apprenticeship Programme is an exciting opportunity to begin your career in social care Applications are open to everyone, and no experience or previous qualifications are needed. We recruit our apprentices based on your attitude,values and potential to succeed.
**Join our team as an Apprentice Care Assistant**
As an Apprentice Care Assistant, you will benefit from gaining work experience in a friendly and supportive environment and will receive generous hourly pay, success bonuses and excellent training towards a recognised vocational qualification. You will be supportedin your learning throughout the apprenticeship by a personal coach.
To succeed as an Apprentice at One Housing, you’ll need to have good verbal and written communications skills and be able to demonstrate patience, compassion, and a caring attitude.
This is a unique opportunity to develop new skills at the same time as doing work you can be proud of.
**The role**
Your apprenticeship will be completed over 15 - 18 months and will consist of on-the-job training as well as online or on-site training. Based at our Baycroft Kempston nursing home.
**Location: **Baycroft Kempston, Fletcher Road, Bedford, MK42 7FY
**Your typical day will involve**:

- Providing social interaction to our customers and supporting them to continue with, or take up, new hobbies and activities.
- Helping customers with limited mobility and physical disabilities to access and enjoy all areas of their environment.
- Assisting trained nursing colleagues to provide specialist care for those residents who may be temporarily unwell.
- Ensuring the Nurse Call system is answered in a timely manner and assistance is provided where needed.
- Serving drinks, meals and snacks to residents and visitors and assisting any customers who require help with eating and drinking.

**Our offer**:

- **Salary**: £8.80 per hour, rising to £9.68 per hour after 6 months and £11.00 per hour after 12 months.
- **Bonus**:£750 after 3 months and £500 upon completion of your apprenticeship.
- **Paid study time**: 20% of your hours are dedicated to personal study towards your qualification.
- **Qualification**: You will be awarded a Level 2 Adult Care Worker qualification on completion of your apprenticeship.
- **Your holidays are important to us**. Annual leave entitlement equivalent to 29 days, inclusive of bank holidays
- **Look after your loved ones.** Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.
- **Well done** With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
- **We’re here for you.** Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.

**Our commitment to diversity**
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 initiativesand 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.