Care Assistant

Seed Recruitment Consultants ltd; Wickford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A local nursing home in Wickford is looking for a care assistant to support daily living activities, with available day and night shifts. The ideal candidate will help promote independence and provide personal care, ensuring a stimulating environment for service users. This role offers competitive hourly pay and opportunities for qualification achievements.

Benefits

Supported to achieve relevant qualifications in Health & Social Care

Competitive hourly rates of pay

Increased pay rates with qualifications

Qualifications

• Support activities of daily living in a person-centred manner.
• Promote independence and choice in daily activities.
• Assist with personal care and support with therapies.

Responsibilities

• Support service users with personal care tasks.
• Help in serving meals and drinks.
• Maintain a stimulating and homely environment.

Job description

Overview

Our client, a medium size nursing home, is looking for a care assistant to start asap, with night or day shifts.

Responsibilities

• Support the activities of daily living in a person-centred manner
• Promote physical and personal independence as well as choice in all daily activities
• Help in promoting a stimulating and homely environment
• To assist with toileting needs, including continence promotion
• To change beds, tidy rooms and do light cleaning
• To help in the serving of meals and drinks, feeding those individuals who are unable to feed themselves
• The role of Health Care Assistant is primarily to support service users, with direction from a qualified Nurse & client-centred care packages, with day-to-day care tasks such as personal care, support with therapies & activities and to maintain their mental, physical, social & spiritual health and wellbeing.

Benefits / Opportunities

• Supported to achieve relevant qualifications in Health & Social Care
• Competitive hourly rates of pay
• Increased pay rates in relation to qualification achievements
• Day and night shifts available
• The positions available include day and night shifts, and include working bank holidays and at least three weekends per month. Initial pay scale is minimum wage without qualifications, however, this is reviewed after three months with respect to provision of hourly rate increase