Care Assistant

SPRINGCARE LTD; Chester; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Workplace pension

Early pay option (Wage Stream)

Blue Light Card discounts

Fully funded training (qualifications

Job summary

Springcare is seeking caring individuals to join our team to provide high-quality day-to-day care for residents. You will assist with personal care, meals, activities, and maintaining a clean, safe living environment.

We value compassion, reliability and good communication. Two references, a DBS check and the right to work in the UK are required. Flexible day or night contracts with pension and training opportunities.

Qualifications

• Two written references required.
• Standard/enhanced DBS check and evidence of right to work in the UK.
• Safeguarding and recruitment practices are followed.

Responsibilities

• helping with washing and dressing
• Assisting with feeding and mealtimes
• finding out and knowing residents interests and needs
• general housekeeping such as tidying residents' private bedrooms and communal areas
• supporting each resident's physical and mental wellbeing through activities

Skills

compassion and understanding

desire to help people

people skills

communication skills

patience under pressure

attention to detail

basic computer skills

Job description

Some of the daily tasks that a carer at Springcare would carry out would include:

• helping with washing and dressing
• Assisting with feeding and mealtimes
• finding out and knowing residents interests and needs.
• general housekeeping such as tidying residents' private bedrooms and communal areas
• supporting each resident's physical and mental wellbeing through activities.

Our care team provide 24-hour care, where day care shifts are worked from 8am until 8pm, and night-time shifts are from 8pm until 8am.

Typical Shift patterns for Day or Night Contracts

Days Shift Contracts

• 8am until 8pm
• 8am until 2pm
• 2pm until 8pm

Night Shift Contracts

• 8pm until 8am

• compassion, sensitivity and understanding
• a desire to help people
• people skills and excellent communication skills
• patience and the ability to keep calm and work well under pressure
• to be thorough and pay attention to detail
• to be able to carry out basic tasks on a computer or hand-held device

We now have an opportunity for carers to join Springcare, where every day you can make a difference to someone's life.

Here at Springcare, we believe that good carers have many great qualities that make them excellent at their job., If you are interested in becoming a carer with Springcare, have the qualities that we believe make our carers fantastic, we would love to hear from you and be part of your journey in care.

Successful applicants would require two written references, a standard/enhanced DBS (depending on role) and evidence of a right to work in the UK check.

Springcare are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all of our staff are vetted, selected, trained and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective and compassionate care.

Benefits

• Permanent full and part time day or night contracts - with access to our work placed pension scheme
• Early pay using Wage Stream App - you can withdraw up to 50% of your earnings in advance of your pay
• Access to Blue Light Card - where you can make savings across hundreds of national retailers
• Fully funded training for nationally recognised qualifications (level 2 through to 5) with internal career progression opportunities