Site Support Assistant

Site Support Assistant at St Nicholas House Care Home

Do you have previous caretaking, site support or general maintenance experience? Come and work for Norse Care where you can make a real difference in the lives of our service users. We offer fully funded accredited courses, excellent career progression, and job satisfaction from improving people’s lives.

Please note that Norse Care are currently unable to provide sponsorship.

A Day In The Life

As a Site Support Assistant, you will be a key part of our on-site team, taking responsibility for general building and grounds maintenance. You will have the opportunity to undertake a diverse range of tasks in this role, including technical support, minor fixes and other maintenance duties.

Working as part of a team, you will build strong relationships with your colleagues and the service users, helping to promote a safe and engaging environment.

About You

We are looking for people with excellent communication skills, the ability to manage your own workload efficiently and who share our core values:

• We care completely.
• We collaborate proactively.
• We act with integrity.
• We pursue better.
• We make it happen.

We will be looking for you to demonstrate these at the interview stage!

About St Nicholas House

St Nicholas House is our residential care home in Dereham, West Norfolk. The home provides short-term and full-time care and support, including specialist care and support for people living with dementia.

Why work for Norse Care?

We value the contribution that everyone at Norse Care makes to improving people’s lives. It’s important to us that we give you the confidence and knowledge to perform your role to the best of your ability. We provide access to award-winning training, so our service users get the best care, and you have the tools for fantastic self-development, giving you ownership of your career. We want you to succeed!

We understand that working in care can be rewarding but also challenging, so your wellbeing is important to us. From day one, you will have access to a wide range of benefits alongside a great reward package including weekend working enhancements. For a complete list of what we offer, please click here to visit our website.

An enhanced DBS check will be required for our successful candidate, payment will be met by the employer.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.

Due to the high number of applications we receive for our vacancies, if you do not hear from us within two weeks of the date you apply, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.

We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.

Key skills/competency

• General Maintenance
• Grounds Maintenance
• Building Maintenance
• Technical Support
• Minor Fixes
• Communication Skills
• Workload Management
• Team Collaboration
• DBS Eligibility
• Health and Safety