Apprentice

Home Group

Location: Suffolk
Salary: £4.35 to £8.21
Closing Date: 17 June 2019
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Job Description

Apprentice Health and Social Care (Customer Only)

Temporary for 15 months, - (with progression opportunities available for successful candidates)

Full Time (37.5 hpw)

Salary £4.35 to £8.21 per hour, depending on age (this is reflective of NMW)


Shaping our future with brilliant apprentices! Thats when it hits home.


Our award winning apprenticeship programme has been designed to get our customers on the career ladder! (How awesome is that!) Dont be put off by the word apprentice as you can be any age to apply.


So whats so great about this apprenticeship? Well, your wage will be higher than the national apprenticeship minimum wage, so start planning what to spend that extra cash on! Youll be employed for a 15 month period to get stacks of experience and launch your career! Youll start at NVQ level 2 (equivalent to a GCSE) with a possible progression to level 3 (equivalent to A-levels) and many apprentices secure a permanent role with us! Who knows where future you will end up!


Some of our apprentices say "Working at Home Group enables me to do what I love, receive a wage and develop my skills" and "I would happily tell anyone thinking of becoming an apprentice that it provides a worthwhile qualification and experience that could lead to a very good career".


About the role

Youll be working with Ruth, where you will support a team of colleagues across our Waveney Cluster Mental Health team in both our 24 hours supported and in our community floating support services. Youll help our team to support our customers to successfully achieve the outcomes outlined in their own individual support plans; that means providing customers a support with day to day tasks encouraging them to develop and maintain basic life skills and move on to live independently.

Youll be working alongside our amazing with lots of years experience between them team, who genuinely care about the wellbeing of our customer and supporting them to reach their goals and celebrating their achievements. To us were not just a team were a work family. Our manager is Ruth, whos been with Home Group for five months but comes with a lot of experience working with challenging customers groups. There are 16 of us in the team and we all have different strengths.


Youll work 37.5 per week, which will usually 9-5 Monday - Friday

Please note any offer of employment is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure check through the DBS the costs of which are met by Home Group.


Who were looking for

You can apply for this apprenticeship if you are a current or former Home Group customer.

Ideally you will have good written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills and basic Microsoft Office Skills but before long youll be a real whizz! You be great at working with people as part of a team, but must be able to work independently and use your initiative. Youll be keen to learn from others how to prioritise and manage your work load, but an eye for detail is important.


You can download our Health and Social Care Apprenticeship Job description.

Youre unique!


Home Group play a big part in tackling prejudice and discrimination. We want you to be yourself at here and value everything that makes you unique. So whatever your race, sexuality, disability, religion, gender or even non-gender, we recognise and celebrate your differences. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!


Whats on offer?

Our apprenticeship programme, which is a combination of a nationally accredited professional qualification, a competitive salary as well as a fantastic range of benefits, will make a real difference to your life inside and outside of work. You can download Apprenticeship Candidate Pack and find out more.


Our apprentices say So pleased I will be getting an NUS (student discount) card from my employer another reason to say that Home Group is a great place to work.

To top this off, we also have a full recognition scheme including an annual Apprentice Award Ceremony will you be our next future Star?


The job for you?

Great, all you need to do now is upload a covering letter and your CV. Please do include the covering letter as we really want to know more about what you will bring to the role, your experience and for you to tell us how you live our values every day.  To help, weve created a template for both which you can download in the job section of our website and if you are viewing the vacancy on our current job page by viewing our how to apply page.


A bit about us

As well as being recognised as one of the top three large employers for apprentices at the National Apprenticeship Awards 2018, were also one of the UKs biggest providers of high quality housing and care and support services.  Were one of the largest developers of new homes and providers of houses for affordable rent.


What makes us No. 7 in the UKs Best Large Places to Work or gives us Investors in People Gold Standard€¦.? Its our brilliant people like you!


Our values

At Home Group, we live by our values every day through our colleagues to provide a great service to our clients and customers.  To be a success with us youll need to be

Accountable (Dont pass the buck own it!), Commercial (Spending wisely and working creatively), Caring (Looking after one another) and Energised (Having a positive, can-do approach)
 
Work Locations: Beccles (Noels Walk) Harry Ley House Noel's Walk Beccles NR34 9EQ


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