Homecare Assistant (DUN)
Job Description
No care experience or qualification necessary. Transferrable life experience or experience of caring for others desirable What you’ll do Work with the Care and Support Manager to deliver a high standard of companionship, care and support to tenants in the scheme enabling them to maintain their independent living skills. Encourage their social interaction with family, friends, other tenants and community organisations. During induction, new joiners will spend a week working at each of our Cambridge Schemes CB4 and CB1, to become familiarised with both schemes, enabling staffing resource to be shared when required. Further information will be provided at interview.
- Aged 17 years or over
- A genuine desire to help others and make a positive contribution from day one
- A friendly, committed, flexible team player, with a compassionate person-centred approach
- Transferrable life experience, or experience of caring for others
- No care experience or qualification is necessary as you will be fully trained on the job.
- For those staff wishing to develop and obtain a qualification, we offer a level 2 or 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care and recognise this achievement with a one-off payment of £250.
Employee discount scheme (retail, leisure, gym membership and fitness equipment)
- Doctor Care Anywhere (telehealth service offering private online GP and nurse appointments via video and phone)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice)
- One day off a year to volunteer for a charity of your choice
- 30 days holiday, increasing to 35 days per annum, inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata for part-time staff), depending on length of service
- Holiday purchase scheme- up to 5 days per annum (pro rata for part-time staff)
- Company sick pay
- 58p per mile business mileage allowance
- Refer a friend scheme (£250)
- Contributory pension scheme, which both you and CHS contribute to
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Flexible Working Policy
- Full induction
- Comprehensive free training and development opportunities with paid time off
- Free DBS (for relevant posts)
- Free onsite/nearby parking
- Blue Light Card
- Selling annual leave
- Recruitment and retention payment of of £150 after completion of 6 months’ successful probationary period and £100 on completion of a further 6 months’ continuous service