Care Assistant

Springcare Ltd; Wirral; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A local care provider in Wirral is seeking Care Assistants to join their team. The role involves helping residents with daily living tasks, ensuring their physical and mental wellbeing, and maintaining a clean environment. Successful candidates should demonstrate compassion, patience and excellent interpersonal skills. Full and part-time shifts are available, and comprehensive training will be provided.

Benefits

Access to Blue Light Card

Fully funded training for recognized qualifications

Access to counselling and wellbeing support

Family friendly policies

Refer a friend scheme

Qualifications

• Desire to help people and make a difference.
• Ability to work well under pressure and maintain calm.
• Basic computer skills or ability to use hand-held devices.

Responsibilities

• Helping with washing and dressing residents.
• Assisting with feeding and mealtimes.
• Engaging with residents to know their interests and needs.
• Maintaining cleanliness in residents' bedrooms and communal areas.
• Supporting residents’ physical and mental wellbeing through various activities.

Skills

compassion

sensitivity

understanding

people skills

communication skills

patience

attention to detail

Job description

Overview

Park House - Care Nights

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.

What qualities does it take to be a Care Assistant at Springcare?

• 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

Not only do our care team provide nursing care to our residents, they also help to make our residents lives fulfilled, treat each resident with dignity & respect, and care for them all as if they were their own family.

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.

Typical Shift patterns

Day Contracts

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

Night Contracts

• 8pm until 8am

What Springcare can offer to you

• Permanent full and part time day or night contracts – with access to our work placed 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.