Care Assistant - Bank

Prime Life; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DBS funded

Holiday pay scheme

Refer a Friend bonus

Blue Light Card savings

Career progression support

Job summary

Prime Life is seeking Bank Care Assistants to join our friendly team at Loran House Care Home in Hull. The role focuses on compassionate resident support, daily care tasks and ensuring a safe, dignified service.

We offer full training, progression opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package including DBS funding and a generous referral scheme. Apply now to join a dedicated care team.

Qualifications

• Genuine caring nature and desire to make a real difference for residents.
• Full training provided; prior care experience desirable but not essential.
• Dementia awareness or understanding beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Assist residents with personal hygiene and dressing.
• Support residents at mealtimes to ensure good nutrition and hydration.
• Encourage safe mobility with mobility aids and equipment.
• Provide friendship and companionship; accompany residents to appointments or social outings.
• Maintain accurate and timely written records and documentation.
• Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team to promote residents' health and wellbeing.
• Welcome family members and assist with enquiries.

Job description

Make a difference every day and give back to your community!

Prime Life are on the lookout for passionate and dedicated care professionals to join our friendly team as a Bank Care Assistant. At present, we have several vacancies available and are keen to meet with candidates as soon as possible for interviews.

This role will be based at Loran House Care Home, in Hull. The home has been specially designed to cater to the every need of 46 residents, living with a range of age related, physical and mental health conditions that require dignified support from our caring team. The home provides a unique reablement service within the local community and supports individuals with short stay respite care following their discharge from hospitals, to ensure a safe return home once rehabilitated. It is essential that candidates for this role are patient, understanding and respectful of our resident’s individual abilities to maximise and promote their independence.

Benefits of becoming our Bank Care Assistant:

• - Hourly rates of pay ranging from £12.96to £13.32per hour dependent upon qualification level


• - Opportunities to learn and progress with the support of our dedicated Quality Matters team


• - Fully funded DBS


• - Comprehensive Holiday Pay scheme that rewards you for your commitment to care


• - Fantastic Refer a Friend scheme, offering up to £250 per successful candidate!


• - Access to Blue Light Card savings - The UK’s number one discount service for the emergency services, NHS, social care sector and armed forces

Responsibilities of our Bank Care Assistant include:

• - Assisting residents with their personal hygiene and dressing for the day, or retiring to bed for the evening


• - Supporting residents to dine at mealtimes and maintain good nutrition and hydration


• - Encouraging residents to mobilise safely around the home, with the support of mobility aids and specialist equipment


• - Providing friendship and companionship, and accompanying residents on social outings or appointments


• - Maintaining accurate and timely written records and completing documentation


• - Being a part of a multi-disciplinary team and engaging with other care professionals, as and when required, to promote the health and well-being of our residents


• - Welcoming family members to the home and assisting with enquiries

What we’re looking for in our Bank Care Assistant:

To be successful within this role, you will have a genuine caring nature and a desire to make a real difference for our residents. Though prior experience as a Care Assistant or Support worker is desirable, this is not essential as full training is provided. Typically, our residents live with age related conditions, life-limiting health conditions and physical disabilities that require dignified support from our care team. It is essential that candidates for this role are therefore patient, understanding and respectful of our resident’s individual abilities. Additionally, many of our residents live with dementia and as such an understanding of dementia would be beneficial.