Residential Services Officer HCC617554

Job Details:

Salary Range: £25,628 - £28,326 pro-rata, per annum (actual salary £20,779 - £22,966 per annum)
Work Location: Homewood Care Home, Andover
Hours per week: 30
Contract type: Permanent
Closing Date: 22 October 2024

The Role:

We’re privileged to work with some amazing people here at Homewood. We provide a residential service for adults with learning disabilities. As a Residential Services Officer you’ll play a key role providing personalised support, so people can engage in a range of meaningful activities both out in the community and within our safe and comfortable environment.  

Everyone who lives here is unique with their own individual physical, mental, social and emotional needs. You’ll enjoy this diversity and use your person-centred approach to focus on their strengths, promoting their independence and tailoring your support to the individual. This will include helping people with eating and drinking, taking medication, personal care and communication. We aim to share our culture of care, respect and independence with everyone that uses our service and adopt an inclusive approach in everything we do. 

Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.

You’ll have an understanding of the needs of the service user group and have experience of working with them to achieve independence. Experience of enabling and providing care in a respite or residential service environment would be an advantage. Most importantly, you’ll demonstrate our core values, showing patience, empathy and compassion and share our commitment to enabling people to lead full and active lives as independently as possible. Our Residential Services Officers must be strong team players, so you’ll need excellent communication skills for building positive relationships. You’ll also need good collaboration skills for working in partnership with a diverse range of people including the people who stay with us, their families and carers, as well as other professionals and colleagues. Sound IT and accurate information recording skills are also essential. 

In return, we can offer you a comprehensive induction programme, so that you’ll have all the training you need to do a fantastic job. You’ll also get great satisfaction from supporting people get the most out of their stay with us. We’re committed to your personal development and can support you to undertake an QCF/ Apprenticeship in a care related subject. Joining us as a Residential Services Officer, will help prepare you for potential opportunities in the future to work at a senior level. We also offer an extensive benefits package.

As this is a 24/7 service, you’ll be required to work a shift pattern to respond to the demands of the service. Your working pattern will include working bank holidays, every other weekend and a variety of shifts including early, late and sleep-in shifts.

Other roles you may have experience of could include: Support Worker, Care Assistant, Care Worker, Carer, Home Carer, Family Support, Health Care Assistant, Teaching Assistant, Learning Support Assistant, LSA, House Parent, Day Opportunities Support Worker, Day Services Support Worker, Wellbeing Coordinator, Wellbeing Support Worker, Community Support Worker, Day Care Host, House Parent, Residential Care, Residential Support Worker, Home Care Assistant, Domiciliary Care Worker, Health Care Professional, Night Carer, Homecare Assistant and Personal Care Giver. 

Values Based Recruitment

We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application.  For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.

Additional Information:

Find out more about Working with us in Adults’ Health and Care, including our benefits and the recruitment process. 

Vetting Requirements:

This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check.

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:

For general enquiries, please contact care.careers@hants.gov.uk

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Marcia Elliot-White, Registered Manager on marcia.elliot-white@hants.gov.uk