Care Assistant Days

SPRINGCARE LTD; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A care provider in the UK is seeking compassionate carers to join their team at Alexandra House Eastwood. Responsibilities include assisting residents with personal care, supporting their wellbeing, and maintaining a clean environment. Ideal candidates should possess excellent communication skills and a desire to help others. Full and part-time contracts are available, along with opportunities for training and professional development.

Benefits

Access to pensions

Fully funded training

Counselling and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Compassion, sensitivity and understanding are essential.
• Desire to help people is crucial.
• Ability to carry out basic tasks on a computer or hand-held device.

Responsibilities

• Helping with washing and dressing.
• Assisting with feeding and mealtimes.
• General housekeeping for residents' areas.
• Supporting residents' physical and mental wellbeing.

Skills

compassion

communication skills

patience

attention to detail

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

1. Day Shift Contracts
   1. 8am until 8pm
   2. 8am until 2pm
   3. 2pm until 8pm
2. Night Shift Contracts
   1. 8pm until 8am

Qualities

• 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

Benefits

• 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

We now have an opportunity for carers to join Alexandra House Eastwood, 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.

Application Requirements

• two written references
• a standard/enhanced DBS (depending on role)
• 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.