Care Assistant Days

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Prenton; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Workplace pension

Early pay option

Blue Light Card discounts

Care qualifications training (level 2-

Care qualifications training (level 5)

Refer a friend bonus

Counselling & wellbeing support

Family-friendly policies

Structured recruitment process

Job summary

Springcare is inviting applications for Care Assistants to join our team in the UK. You will support residents with daily living tasks and provide compassionate, person-centred care to enhance their quality of life.

We offer permanent full and part-time day or night contracts, DBS where required, training from level 2 to 5, pension, wellbeing programme. Two references and right to work in the UK are required.

Qualifications

• Compassion, sensitivity and understanding.
• Desire to help people.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Patience and the ability to stay calm under pressure.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to use a computer or handheld device.

Responsibilities

• Helping with washing and dressing residents.
• Assisting with feeding and mealtimes.
• Finding out and knowing residents' interests and needs.
• General housekeeping in residents' private bedrooms and communal areas.
• Supporting residents’ physical and mental wellbeing through activities.

Skills

Compassion

Sensitivity

Desire to help

People skills

Communication skills

Patience

Attention to detail

Basic tech skills

Job description

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 for Day Contracts

• Days Shift Contracts
• 8am until 8pm
• 8am until 2pm
• 2pm until 8pm

What Springcare can offer to you:

• Permanent full and part time day or night contracts – with access to our work placed pension scheme
• Early pay using Wage Stream App – you can withdraw up to 50% of your earnings in advance of your pay
• 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

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.