About the role
Are you a caring, reliable person who thrives on helping others? Do you want a rewarding role where every shift has a real impact? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
We're looking for enthusiastic Night Home Carers to join our Specialist Support and Enablement Services for Younger Adults team, providing vital overnight support to younger adults with disabilities.
While most people are asleep, you'll be helping individuals feel safe, comfortable and supported throughout the night, promoting their wellbeing and independence.
We're currently seeking people who can work one of the following shift patterns:
Every Tuesday and Wednesday
or
Every Thursday and every second Friday
What We're Looking For
We're interested in people with the right values:
Compassionate and caring
Dependable and responsible
Positive and enthusiastic
Respectful and person-centred
Committed to helping others live independently
Experience in care is beneficial, but a great attitude and willingness to learn are just as important.
As a Night Home Carer, you'll benefit from:
✨ 1/3 enhancement for waking night shifts
✨ Enhanced working on Sundays and Bank Holidays
✨ Additional enhancements where applicable
✨ Local Government Pension Scheme
✨ Learning and development opportunities
✨ The chance to build a rewarding career with North Northamptonshire Council
Our services operate 365 days a year, meaning every night you work helps provide essential support to people who rely on us.
This isn't simply a care role. It's an opportunity to provide reassurance, support independence, and make a positive difference when it matters most.
If you've got the right values, a positive attitude, and a desire to help others thrive, we want to hear from you.
What will you be doing?
The role of a Night Home Carer is to:
Provide night support to a customer living within their own home. Customer may require support during the night which you will attend to.
Travel to different locations for customer support as and when required.
Provide practical, personal and emotional care and support to customers who may have a range of different health and social care needs.
Ensure each customer experiences a service that meets their own personal needs and preferences, as set out in their care/support plan, and to refer any areas of concern to the duty manager.
Work in such a way as that promotes the customers' health and wellbeing, ensures dignity is preserved, supports independence and choice whilst maintaining safety making sure any areas of concern are reported.
Provide a flexible service that may involve a range of activities including personal care, administration of prescribed medication, practical help at home, etc.
Work with the customer to understand and contribute to assess their needs of customers, e.g. risk, manual handling and use of low-level equipment.
Ensure that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself and other persons.
Comply with the policies and procedures, and any relevant legislative requirements.
Carry out any other duties which all within the broad spirit, scope and purpose of this job and which are commensurate with the grade of the post.
About you
Candidates ideally should have a full driving licence with access to a full serviced appropriately insured vehicle in order to travel to various locations.
Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check which will be covered by the employer.
You must have a genuine interest to work within social care.
You should have the ability to provide excellent care and support to all our customers.
You should treat others with dignity and respect.
You will be flexible and compassionate
You are able to work well alone and in a team environment.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
Armed Forces Community
The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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