Care Assistant

Empowering

Inclusive

Committed

Location North London

Salary £31,507 - £32,772 pa

Permanent/Full time/37.5 hours per week

This is a Permanent, Full time vacancy that will close in 13 days at 10:00 GMT.

About The Role

Do you want to make a difference to the lives of our clients whilst developing valuable skills and experience? 

Hilldrop Road is a registered care home providing long term accommodation, support and care to up to 29 men with a history of alcohol misuse, homelessness and mental health conditions, with related physical health needs. The service has staff working on a rota basis including evenings and weekends as well as bank holidays and sleep-in shifts.

In this highly fulfilling role you will actively provide personal and physical care support to residents and enable them to access health, social and personal care services that will empower them to live fulfilling lives with dignity in a social care setting.

All residents are in receipt of ongoing recovery orientated needs assessment and support plans that actively promote their personal, social, cultural and familial identity, as well as specifying the health provision required to maintain as much independence as practicable in a registered care setting.

About you

We are looking for a dedicated, hardworking and assertive individual who is committed to providing the highest standards of care to our residents. You should be a conscientious person who must be able to demonstrate capability of responding appropriately to a variety of needs from our resident group.

Working hours are part of a 24/7 rota, shifts will include evenings, weekends, bank holidays and sleep-in shifts. Applicants will therefore need to be willing to work these shifts to meet the needs of the role. 

We to hear from people who want to help transform lives. Not sure if you have the skills and experience you need for the role? Apply and we’ll let you know!

St Mungo's are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage applications from all under-represented groups.

How to apply

To find out more and apply please go to the St Mungo’s careers page on our website.

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document available’ tab at the top of the advert page on our website.

Closing date: 10am on 5th March 2026

Interview and assessments on: 19th March 2026

Interested in becoming a locum worker?

We are also looking for locum Care Assistants to join our bank of staff. If you would like to be considered as a locum, please continue to apply and state this within the supporting statement section.

About Us

Our purpose is to end homelessness and rebuild lives. It drives everything that we do. For the past 55 years, we have been on the ground every day and every night, supporting people to recover from homelessness and advocating for change. We support around 28,000 people each year and our work means that more than 2,700 people have somewhere safe to stay each night.

What We Offer

We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where all colleagues feel valued, and we welcome applications from all under-represented groups. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion improves the health, wellbeing and development of our colleagues and helps to ensure everyone feels valued. We know that when diversity, inclusion and wellbeing are prioritised, we are happier, healthier and can ultimately achieve better outcomes for our clients.

Below are some of our key focus areas to improve both our candidate and colleague experience:

• A growing number of diversity networks including LGBTQ+, Womens Action, Lived Experience and Anti-Racist networks.
• Increasing visibility by ensuring that all interview panels across the organisation are diversely represented to ensure fair and balanced decision making during the recruitment process.
• A safe and supportive working environment championing positive action via various internal schemes such as upward mentoring and a Steps into Management programme.
• Mandatory Diversity & Inclusion training for all staff, unconscious bias training for managers, and a range of other courses such as Trans awareness and Autism Awareness.
• In recognition of the importance of transparency, we publish our employee diversity statistics and pay gap reports on our website.

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We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to our colleagues to ensure wellbeing remains a key priority. Maintaining a good work life balance can be tricky, but with family friendly policies, flexible and agile working options and an incremental annual leave allowance, we are committed to making sure you have the options available as and when you need them.

These include:

• Agile working model for suitable roles.
• Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements.
• 28 days annual leave rising to 31 after five years’ service.
• Family friendly leave policies including - maternity, adoption and parental leave. Carers leave, and fertility treatment leave.
• Financial wellbeing platform offering loans, advances and saving options.
• Auto-enrolment to pension scheme after six months service with an employer contribution of 6%.
• Employee Assistance Programme and access to SmartHealth app – 24/7 GP appointments, health checks and nutrition advice.
• Cycle to Work scheme and interest free season ticket loans.
• Discount vouchers including gym, retail, food & drink, travel, electricals and more.

Want to find out more? Want to find out more? Click here to visit our Work For Us page.

At St Mungo’s we are committed to providing development opportunities for all our colleagues. We welcome people with a wide range of experiences and value transferable skills so that we can provide the best support for people experiencing homelessness. That’s why we have a robust induction, training and development programme that supports colleagues throughout their career at St Mungo’s.

These include:

• Highly praised internal training courses and access to external learning to build your skills and meet your professional development goals.
• Steps into Management programme to support colleague progression.
• Commitment to continued professional development with access to career development forums, internal mentoring and internal secondment opportunities.

A DBS disclosure check is a requirement for this post and will be undertaken for the successful candidate.

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

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