Glenholme Healthcare Group, with over 30 years of experience, offers personalised care for the elderly, individuals with nursing care needs, dementia, severe learning disabilities, and complex needs. We focus on promoting independence through nursing homes, residential care homes, supported living schemes, and outreach services to meet changing needs.
Glenholme Helathcare - The Marlowes is a specialist supported living service in Hemel Hempstead, which has been developed to enable people with learning disabilities to live happy, healthy, safe lives and to achieve their full potential.
We are looking for individuals with a big smile to become our Support Workers to light up the faces of the people we support!
Regrettably, we are not in a position to offer sponsorship!
- A Salary increase once you have completed our paid for Care Certificate (An industry-recognised qualification)
- Hastee Pay – withdraw up to 40% of your earned salary before payday as when you want
- Alternate weekends off
- 29 holidays (including your birthday off) plus length of service bonus holidays
- Quarterly Awards to reward & recognise our amazing staff's commitment and contribution and service performance related bonuses
- Automatic entry into our Employee Assistance Programme offering: Personal and everyday advise on child support, financial advice, mental health and health & wellbeing
- You'll also receive our pension, life assurance cover
- Cycle2work scheme
- Free Blue Light Card
PLUS:
Care Professional Academy Rewards include:
- Herts Rewards (Vivup)
- XO Student Discount
- Access to the NUS Student Card - usually exclusive to university students!
- Care Professional Rewards: Discount codes, cashback and savings on over 800 UK retailers including Sainsbury’s, Argos, Boots, Marks & Spencer, Tesco, John Lewis/Waitrose, Apple, Pizza Hut and many more.
- Discounts on travel including bus ticket discounts, reduced servicing, and car leasing.
Example day:
- Pre-shift preparation: Check client assignments, ensure appropriate clothing.
- Start of shift: Read communication book, appointment diary, and handover notes.
- Morning tasks (early shift): Assist clients with personal care, breakfast, and dressing if needed.
- Medication administration if required.
- Follow the client's lead and pre-booked activities/appointments.
- Continuously record client information and report any incidents.
- Utilise downtime for training, cleaning, and service tasks.
- 3 pm handover meeting to share important resident information.
- For long shifts, move to work with a different client after the meeting.
- Some days include scheduled staff training.
Please note: Shift times specified are the earliest and the latest times for the daytime/night shifts. The shifts can be scheduled anytime in between the daytime hours of 7am-10pm. It can be a case of an early morning, long day or late afternoon. For the waking nights 10pm-8am: this is the only shift available.
The rota is published a couple of weeks in advance so that the staff members can plan their personal commitments around work. The contracted hours will be split across the week, depending on the needs of the people we support and the business’ needs.
- Care experience is not a prerequisite.
- We are looking for individuals residing near the home or those capable of reaching it within 30-40 minutes.
- In special cases, we may consider candidates residing up to 1 hour away via convenient public transportation routes (e.g., direct routes).
- Fluent English communication and flexible availability are essential, with minimal restrictions on working days (i.e., must be available on most days).
- Having a driver's license is a preferred qualification.
Regrettably, we are not in a position to offer sponsorship!
