Care Assistant

Cherry Wood Grange Care Home; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a lively and supportive team at Cherry Wood Grange Care Home as a Care Assistant (Bank), where you'll provide vital personal care to residents and build meaningful relationships. This role emphasizes companionship and kindness, with full training provided to ensure your success.

Benefits

Paid holiday

Pension

Staff recognition schemes

Refer a Friend bonus up to £1000

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Comprehensive Training and Career Development

Friendly and supportive working environment

Dedicated mental health champions

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications required; full training provided.
• Looking for individuals with a caring nature.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care to residents including bathing and eating.
• Follow electronic care plans and administer prescribed medication.
• Maintain a clean and safe environment for residents.

Skills

Compassion

Caring Nature

Job description

Why join us?

We’re proud of our happy home and are dedicated to creating a place where everyone enjoys coming to work each day.

As well being part of a lively and supportive team, we are surrounded by fascinating residents who also bring so much to our lives every day too.

Benefits of joining our team

• £12.50 per hour

• Bank shifts – 0 hour contract

• Weekdays and alternate weekends

• Paid holiday

• Pension

• Staff recognition schemes

• Refer a Friend bonus of up to £1000

• Cycle to work scheme

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Comprehensive Training and Career Development

• A friendly and supportive working environment

• Dedicated mental health champions

About the role

As our Care Assistant (Bank), you’ll provide personal care to our residents, supporting them with bathing, eating, visiting the bathroom, and also getting around and enjoying our lovely home. Your warm, supportive, and caring nature will help you build meaningful relationships with our residents and you will get to know everything about their likes and dislikes as well as their needs. Here’s some other important things you need to know:

• You’ll follow electronic care plans for each resident and administer medication as prescribed, accurately maintaining appropriate records for both.

• You must be alert at all times to our residents’ physical and mental well being

• You will help maintain our high standards ensuring our residents’ home is always clean and safe

The Ideal Candidate

Exceptional people make an exceptional care home

We're looking for people who have a caring nature and want to work as part of an amazing team, surrounded by kindness and fun! For most of the roles in our vibrant care home, you don’t need specific qualifications or experience to be successful as full training is provided.

What we do look for are individuals who share our sense of compassion, care about people’s comfort and happiness and want to make a positive difference to the lives of our treasured residents and team members.