General Housing Assistant

The Abbeyfield Society are a national charity helping to alleviate loneliness and isolation in older people by providing companionship in our supported housing accommodation, retirement apartments and care homes.

This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who would be interested in joining our organisation, to support our Sheltered Housing property in Quorn. If you are looking for a rewarding role to fit around you, Abbeyfield would love for you to join us.

You can never underestimate the power a friendly face and a home cooked meal has on someone’s day. This is a varied role, with resident wellbeing at the forefront of what we do.

This is a varied role, the main tasks of a General Housing Assistant include:

• Ensure communal areas are clean and tidy
• Assist with meal preparation and serving
• Ensuring food stores and maintained with stock rotation
• Promote wellbeing of residents
• Opportunity to cook/bake on occasion to cover Cook (to be discussed further at interview)

Our ideal candidate for General Housing Assistant will have the following qualities

• A cheerful and friendly demeanour
• Understand the needs of older people
• Proactive and organised, someone that takes pride in what they do

What Abbeyfield can offer in return

• • • • A great work/life balance with great job satisfaction
      • Competitive rates of pay
      • Unlimited opportunities to earn £500 via our 'refer a colleague' scheme
      • Menopause Friendly accredited workplace
      • Pay progression within role
      • Child Care Vouchers
      • Supportive leadership with amazing learning and career development opportunities,
      • Professional Standards and Career Pathways
      • Enhanced holiday entitlement for long service
      • Medical cashback scheme allowing costs of medical expenses (dental, opticians and much more) to be claimed back.
      • Occupational sick pay
      • Eligibility for a Blue Light card, with huge savings

*We reserve the right to close posts at any time, once we have received sufficient applications.

Please note this role will require eligibility to work in the UK, two satisfactory employment references and a Standard DBS check, the cost of which will be met by Abbeyfield. You may be asked to provide details regarding convictions; failure to disclose convictions may result in an offer of employment being revoked.

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