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Thornbarrow Road, Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 2DF Tel: 015394 43636 | www.hillthwaite.com
We are looking to recruit at our residential nursing home, Holehird, set above Lake Windermere. With outstanding ratings by the CQC, we offer the very best care for adults with long term complex conditions. On site live-in accommodation is also available for fulltime staff. Apply now to be part of an extraordinary team of people, making a difference to the lives of the residents we care for at Holehird.
support worker £9.48 per hour | full time, part time and occasional hours | ref: 04414
nurse £16.48 per hour | full time, part time and occasional hours | ref: 04415
team leader £11.38 per hour | full time | ref: 04413 domestic assistant £8.25 per hour | part time | ref: 04208 Closing date: 30 August 2019
Housekeeper
We are currently looking for a hard working, committed individual to join our friendly house keeping team from 9am to 3pm. You will need to be able to cope under pressure when needed and have extremely high standards to ensure your rooms are kept to a high level of cleanliness at all times. Duties will be varied but mainly include preparing & servicing guest bedrooms and ensuites as well as public areas within the hotel. Ideally you will need to have had experience in a similar role and environment, however full training can be provided to a suitable candidate. Close proximity to the hotel would be beneficial to ensure flexibility when required. Spoken English is a must.
Restaurant Staff
Working approx 40 hours per week over 5 days, mainly split shifts in our poets bar and restaurant areas. All applicants must have an outgoing personality and a very high standard of personal presentation. You will need to be friendly and hard working with an ability to offer fantastic customer service. Spoken English is a must.
P/T Receptionist
Must have a welcoming personality, a high standard of personal presentation, possess excellent communication and computer compatibility skills. Experience of Rezlynx reservation system would be an advantage
and a knowledge of the local area would be of benefit.
Excellent Rates of Pay, Closed for Christmas, 28 Days paid holiday entitlement, Meals on Duty. Friendly family run hotel.
Please send your cv to manager@hillthwaite.com or call 015394 43636 for further details
A satisfactory disclosures check is required. We welcome applicants from all sections of the community. For more details and to apply, go to: careers.leonardcheshire.org/jobs and search for the reference or call 01902 792060.
Experienced Decorators We are currently looking for experienced decorators to join our team for permanent full time employment. Excellent rates of pay.
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To enquire about this exciting role send your cv to robert@differentstrokes-kendal.co.uk An interview with be arranged where necessary.
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Hotel & Catering We’re looking for…
CRAGWOOD ARE HIRING:
Experienced Restaurant Staff & A Senior Chef De Partie
Housekeeping Assistant Chef De Partie
Full Time Permanent Positions From £23,500 per annum Please send your CV to justine@burnsidehotel.com or call the Hotel on 015394 42211 www.burnsidehotel.com
Flexible shifts, company benefits, career opportunities, straight shifts only, great team.
GILPIN BRIDGE INN, LEVENS Requires Full or Part-time:
Live-in is available for the Chef de Partie position.
• Front of House Staff • General Assistant • Chef / Kitchen Assistant
E-mail your c.v. with covering letter to Albert Waldon at albert@cragwoodhotel.co.uk
Must be over the age of 18. Experience preferred but not essential, must be able to drive due to location. Contact us on 015395 52206 and ask for Claire or Scott
STAFF REQUIRED!
We are looking for :
• A Café Assistant
(Wide Ranging Duties)
Café This is a full time, permanent position.
Overtime opportunities, No split shifts & closed for 4 days over Xmas!
For more details & an application form Email or Phone or come into the Café & ask for Ruth or Wilf.
Email : food@wilfs-cafe.co.uk Tel : 01539 822329 A CV is useful!
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General Vacancies
Receptionist Required Saturdays 9am - 2pm, Bowness on Windermere. Customer service experience preferred. Email hannah.sewell@wmv.co.uk or call 015394 46551
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Self employed Live-in Carer required to support a content 95 year old lady, in Windermere. Non smoker. Contact Helen: 07743136110
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Charlotte is an ‘inspiration’ after almost 20 years dedication at one care home A manager at an Allithwaite care home is hoping to inspire more people to choose a career in the care sector. Charlotte Gregson, aged 45, has worked at The Old Vicarage care home for almost 20 years. And this comes at a time when recruiting and retaining care staff is an ongoing challenge across the country. But dedicated Charlotte has forged a career in care, starting as a care assistant, progressing to senior care assistant, deputy care manager and then becoming care manager at the 19-bed care home in 2012. “Charlotte is a real asset to the home, and a complete role model to younger staff who look up to her,” said care home owner, Kamal Siddiqi.
“As a manager Charlotte is a very hands-on leader, she wouldn’t ask something of a member of her team that she wouldn’t be prepared to do herself. And because she’s worked her way up, she has a good understanding of everyone’s roles and responsibilities. “Recruiting and retaining staff is an ongoing concern for the care sector, so to have a manager that continues to show such dedication and enthusiasm for her role is heartwarming. She is an inspiration to anyone considering a career in care.” With an increasingly ageing population, Charlotte believes there is a ‘significant demand’ for more people to enter the care industry. “We will always need good care workers,” said Charlotte, who studied Health & Social Care at Kendal College. “It’s a vocation not a job, so you must have a passion for working with older people. But it is a worthwhile profession and there are opportunities for career progression. “To be a good care worker it’s about having the right attitude, you can learn new skills and take qualifications, but more importantly you need to be patient, caring and open-minded to help you meet the needs of your residents. As care manager at The Old Vicarage, Charlotte made the decision that staff, including herself, would not wear uniforms. She explained: “It’s a fundamental part of our care that staff interact with residents as equals. “This is their home, they can choose when to get up or go to bed and how to spend their day. I feel that uniforms separate us, they are a symbol of power and control, and represent ‘doing a job’, whereas we want our residents to feel special, loved, and at home. “I love getting to know our residents and hearing their life stories. It’s so rewarding to be able to help make their lives better and easier. “I would encourage anyone who feels they have the right attitude to consider taking the first step to a rewarding career in care.” The Old Vicarage is in the village of Allithwaite, just over a mile from Grange-overSands. The care home provides nursing, residential, dementia and respite care for 19 residents.
General Vacancies
Inside Sales & Admin Support Freelance or part-time inside-sales support and customer relationship management (CRM) admin role based in Staveley for 2.5 days a week. Experience of working with Microsoft Office, being self-motivated, able to work with minimal supervision working with a CRM database, Excel spreadsheets and reviewing company websites is essential. Between £15-18 per hour, depending on experience. For more information and details of how to apply, please email: carl@techsoft3d.com
Lakes Carpet Cleaning & Laundry Services Ambleside
Laundry Assistant – Immediate start
You will be working in our commercial laundry where your duties will include loading and unloading washing machines and dryers, pressing laundry and bagging it up ready to return to our customers. There will be some driving involved in this job – you will be delivering and collecting laundry from local hotels and guest houses. This will involve heavy lifting. You will be required to work weekends and bank holidays. As you are dealing with our customers you will be required to speak and read and write English. You must have a clean driving license that allows you to drive in the Uk. No experience necessary as full training will be given.
Please call 015394 34441 for more information or to apply.
The Old Vicarage
We’re Hiring It’s a place where innovative • Distribution Centre cookware and inspirational Colleagues homewares go hand in hand Kendal £8.42* per hour with passionate people and Fixed term until 12 January 2020 exceptional service. 37 hours / 30.25 hours For more details visit: workforlakeland.co.uk Transport available from Lancaster/ Morecambe* *Subject to sufficient numbers
Night shift £8.42 per hour* Unsociable hours premium – 11pm to 6am Fixed term until 12 January 2020 37 hours
• Contact Centre Colleagues
Head Office – Windermere £8.42* per hour Fixed term until 31 December 2019 37 hours / 30.25 hours * Aged 18 or over
Country Home for the Elderly Allithwaite • Grange-over-Sands
Senior Care Assistant • 4-5 days per week • Weekend pay • Overtime pay • Travel Allowance • NVQ training & wage increments For further information please contact us on 015395 33703 or email: theoldvicaragecarehome@gmail.com To get YOUR job advert in Employment Pages call 015394 44965 or email: mail@employment-pages.co.uk
OUTDOOR PROMOTIONS STAFF WANT TO KEEP FIT?? GET A TAN?? EARN £££…AND …GET PAID FOR CHATTING? Your new local (and rapidly-growing) radio station is looking for local people (you must live locally in the Lakes) Working in local towns and areas throughout the Lake District, chatting with local people and businesses about listening to Lake District Radio and improving LDR awareness, as well as giving out LDR promotional items No working in the rain or excessive heat Hours 10:00 – 16:00, 3 or 4 days a week You will be working in a team and would need to be fit, active and of smart appearance (Lake District Radio branded clothing will be issued) and have a pleasant manner and be able to talk with many differing types of people This is a temporary/part-time role for the summer only and will be starting in early August There is a daily pay rate….plus considerable bonuses and lots of other “perks” and full training is provided. For more information or to apply please send an email with brief details about you in your own words to studio@lakedistrictradio.org
Good answers to tough interview questions... Part 2 No magic answers First off I don’t have a magic wand to help anyone get a job – I really wish I did. Also I don’t claim that my answers are 100% perfect as these types of questions and answers are very subjective and what might impress one person may completely fail to impress someone else. Having trained interviewers for 17 years I have to say I take a fairly dim view of many of these questions because of their subjective nature, however they are still being asked in interviews around the country. I’ve spoken with the people asking the questions to try and understand why they are asking them and what constitutes a good answer in their eyes and this is what I’ve come up with – hope it helps!
Another 5 Tough Questions 1. What can you do for us that someone else can’t? Why: Quite common in sales type roles where the ability to identify a USP (Unique Selling Point) is important. Remember the main thing you can bring that no-one else can is YOU! Possible answer: “Whilst I think you’ll find a number of people with some of the skills I’ll bring to the role I believe I have a unique combination of skills and experience coupled with a keen ability to learn and develop further.”
2. What do you think of your boss? Why: How well do you understand your bosses role and are you going to trash them? (You’ll be amazed how many people do!) I don’t care if you hate/ hated their guts, now is not the time to go into that! Possible answer: “I worked alongside my boss on several projects and have a great deal of professional respect for their ability to get the job done.” (NOTE: You may be pushed regarding your personal feelings, did you “like” them. Bring this back to a professional footing with something like “I believe that whether I liked them personally has little relevance, what’s important is that we worked well together and delivered some excellent results.”)
3. Do you check voicemail and email when on vacation? Why: Hard to tell. Some organisations want people who will do this, an increasing number value the importance of work/ life balance. My best advice is to be honest, if you wouldn’t then don’t say you would else you may be expected to do it. Possible answer: “I understand why some people do that, however I wouldn’t. Before taking any annual leave I’d ensure that my work was up to date, an appropriate Out of Office message was set and that the rest of my team and my boss were fully aware of any key activities which may require attention during my absence.”
4. If you could choose anyone (alive or deceased) to have lunch with, who would it be? Why: Really, why? This question drives me insane and yet I know so many places that ask it. Their reason/ excuse is that it “gives some insight into the candidate’s personality.” Hogwash, a properly trained interviewer can get that without resorting to questions more appropriate to drinks with friends. What they’ve told me they’re looking for is originality so, if you’re in the UK, don’t say Stephen Fry. Also avoid the Brad Pitt/ Angelina Jolie route. Pick someone who you genuinely admire and who reflects something about you. Possible answer: (This is what I’ve said when asked this same question.) “I very much admire Brian Blessed as his passion and energy for life are truly inspirational. Also, when he climbed Everest he set himself the target of doing so without oxygen, near the top of the mountain he was faced with a choice of using oxygen and achieving his goal of the summit or sticking to his principles and heading back down. He chose to stick to his principles and I admire that strength of character.” (NOTE: A) Most Brits who know Brian Blessed are now laughing and B) when I used that answer and got the job I was earmarked as having the potential to be a bit of a handful. I took that as a compliment!)
5. If you were the CEO of this company what would be the top two things that you would do? Why: They want to see what you know about the organisation. I recently spent a day interviewing 5 people, of those 5 three of them had done no research whatsoever about the organisation. Unbelievable in this day and age when information is so readily available and interviews are like hen’s teeth. Don’t go for specifics, stick to key things that bother any CEO. Possible answer: “I think communication is key, I’d need to ensure that my vision and goals for the organisation are clearly understood by everyone within it and, as communication is a two way process, I’d also want to make sure that I got as much clear and accurate feedback as possible from front line staff about where improvements could be made. Secondly I’d make sure that I had a clear understanding of the challenges facing us over the next 2-5 years and had an appropriate structure around me to help us deal with whatever the future holds.” (NOTE: A good idea at this point is to throw in any relevant things you’ve identified through your research which may affect the organisation in the future.)
And finally… As there’s a very good chance you’ll get asked questions which aren’t on this list then here’s my suggestion; before you leap in stop and consider for a moment why they are asking the question – once you’ve got an idea why they’re asking it then you’re in a much better position to answer it. Tough interview questions really aren’t so tough once you know why they’re asking them. Which is why, for the questions above I’ve tried to identify why they’re asking it before I’ve given a suggested answer to give you some ideas. Beth Pipe is a Learning and Development Professional and freelance writer; you can follow her at @ cumbrianrambler on Twitter.
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