Housing & Care Assistant - Nights

Are you seeking a new challenge as a Housing and Care Assistant (Nights) that allows you the opportunity to demonstrate a caring and compassionate nature, delivering excellent care and support services? If so, we would love to hear from you.

The Coppice is a large ShireLiving service with 140 apartments offering people over the age of 55 a home for life where they can live independently within one of our apartments, with the additional reassurance that our team are on-site for 24 hours a day offering safety and security for all of our tenants who all have varying needs. Our vibrant communities within ShireLiving thrive on connection and joy, offering activities tailored to what our residents love most. Together, we create a warm, engaging environment where everyone feels valued and supported.

As a Housing and Care Assistant working nights you will ensure their safety and security by conducting nightly rounds around the building and preparing for tasks for the following day. When required, Housing and Care Assistant (Nights) also support our tenants with daily living requirements like personal care and medication management.

Joining our team at The Coppice will mean that you as a Housing and Care Assistant (Nights) you will play a vital role in promoting and enabling inclusivity, individuality and independence through respectfully supporting our tenants who lead active lives exploring their interests.

We are looking for Housing and Care Assistants who demonstrate the behaviours that underpin our organisational values, to ensure that the services to our customers are excellent. As a Support Worker, you will be required to display the following values and behaviours:

• Own it – make it happen

• Improve it - move things forward.

• Live it – show understanding and compassion

Housing and Care Assistant’s (Nights) must also demonstrate the following values and behaviours:

• Caring - Placing individuals at the heart of the care, ensuring services are delivered with empathy, dignity, respect, inclusivity and integrity at all times

• Compassion - Requires a level of consideration, patience, empathy and understanding towards others people’s situation and their needs

• Communication - Always listen carefully, speak to people and act in a way that the person can understand

• Courage - Not to be fearful of trying new things to improve the quality of care and raise any concerns proactively

• Commitment - Provide a positive environment, with flexible and a proactive approach to our customer’s needs, helping to make each day special. Working collaboratively with colleagues and be accountable for providing services that make a positive difference to people’s lives.

Further details of the role, responsibilities and requirements are available in the Job description and Person Specification attached.

Benefits

In return, we offer our Support Workers a rewarding opportunity to work within a team of experienced mentors and peers, ensuring that you can thrive at work. Other benefits include:

• Continuous professional development with training, coaching, and mentoring

• Enhanced maternity, shared parental, and adoption leave

• Free onsite parking

• Paid Carer’s leave

• Access to a number of fantastic rewards including free and discounted tickets to popular destinations

• Access to Blue Light Discount

• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme

• Cycle to work scheme

• Long service recognition scheme

Recruitment process:

To apply for this role, please click on the apply button and complete the values-based screening questions. Following this, if you are successful one of the team will contact you to discuss the next stages of the process.

This role will require an Enhanced DBS check