Care Assistant

Springcare Ltd; Oadby and Wigston; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A care organization in Oadby and Wigston is seeking compassionate carers to provide essential support to residents, including personal care and engaging in their activities. The successful candidates will have access to training opportunities and a supportive work environment. If you possess people skills and have a desire to help others, we encourage you to apply for this rewarding position.

Benefits

Permanent contracts

Access to workplace pension

Fully funded training

Counselling and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Sensitivity and understanding towards others.
• Desire to help people and support their well-being.
• Ability to work well under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with washing and dressing residents.
• Helping with feeding and mealtimes.
• Supporting residents' physical and mental well-being.

Skills

compassion

communication skills

patience

Job description

Overview

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.

About the role

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.

Qualities / Qualifications

• 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

What Springcare can offer to you

• Permanent full and part time day or night contracts – with access to our workplace pension scheme
• 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
• Refer a friend £££ scheme for each friend that you recommend (T&C apply)
• Access to counselling and wellbeing support
• Family friendly policies
• Smooth robust recruitment process through our portal

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.