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Working at Wrenmore House

Thirty-four residents, and you'll know them all. Sitting down with somebody for ten minutes counts as doing the job here. Experience helps, and we've trained plenty of people from scratch, including the manager.

Here are the things you can check for yourself on a first shift.

In writing

What we'll put in your contract

Rotas four weeks ahead

Published on the same day every month. And when there's a gap we cover it between us rather than ringing you at eight on your day off.

Paid breaks

Your break is on the clock. It sounds like a small thing until you've worked somewhere it wasn't.

Training on work time

Paid training days on shift, rather than evenings and e-learning at home on your own laptop. We pay for your DBS too.

The owners are here

In the building most days. A broken hoist or a rota problem gets sorted the same week by someone standing in the corridor with you.

An NVQ after a year

Sponsored, on our time. Donna started here as a weekend care assistant in 2001 and has been the registered manager since 2014.

Rates above the minimum

Our starting rate sits above the National Living Wage rather than on it, and it goes up every April whether the government moves or not.

Who you'd be working with

Nine of our eleven care staff have been here more than three years.

Here are some of the people behind that.

Donna Whitmore, registered manager.
Donna WhitmoreRegistered manager · here since 2001
Ade Okafor, deputy manager.
Ade OkaforDeputy manager · here since 2015
Priya Mistry, senior carer.
Priya MistrySenior carer, dementia floor · since 2018
Becky Lawton, care assistant.
Becky LawtonCare assistant, mornings · since 2022
Mark Denny, cook, in the kitchen.
Mark DennyCook · runs the kitchen, since 2017
The hard parts

What the job is like on a bad day.

It is physical, it is on your feet, and some days end badly. People here die, and you will have got fond of them. Nobody tells you that at the interview and then it happens in your third month.

Some shifts are two hours of paperwork you'd rather have spent with somebody. Christmas Day is a working day for about half of us. And a resident with dementia will occasionally be genuinely unkind to you, and you'll have to not take it personally while still being human about it.

If you've read that and you're still interested, you're probably the sort of person we're after.

A resident's hands with knitting beside a pot of tea in the conservatory.
Open now

Three jobs at the moment.

If none of them fit, send the form anyway. Something comes up most months.

Care assistant, days

Full or part time, 7am to 7pm, alternate weekends. £13.10 an hour. No experience needed, full training given.

Care assistant, nights

Two or three nights a week, 7pm to 7am. £14.35 an hour including the night rate. Experience preferred for nights.

Kitchen assistant

Part time, five lunchtimes, 10am to 3pm. £12.85 an hour. Working with Mark, who has run our kitchen for nine years.

Applying

Applying

Donna reads these herself and rings people back, usually within two days. If you'd rather just turn up and ask, the kettle's on and that works too.

We reply to everybody, including the people we don't take on.

You'll need the right to work in the UK and an enhanced DBS check, which we pay for and arrange.

Three fields, no CV.

Thanks. That's with Donna.

She rings applicants herself, usually within two days. If you'd rather not wait, the kettle's on.