Care Assistant Days

SPRINGCARE LTD; Wollaton; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

A care provider in Wollaton is seeking carers to join their team. As a carer, you will support residents' daily living needs, engage in activities to improve their wellbeing, and provide compassionate care. Flexible full-time and part-time contracts available, offering benefits such as fully funded training, early pay access, and a friendly work environment.

Benefits

Access to Blue Light Card

Fully funded training

Family friendly policies

Counselling and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Ability to help with washing and dressing.
• Experience in assisting with feeding and mealtimes.
• Capability to support residents' physical and mental wellbeing.

Responsibilities

• Provide care and support to residents 24 hours a day.
• Help with daily activities such as housekeeping.
• Engage residents in activities to enhance their wellbeing.

Skills

Compassion

Sensitivity

People skills

Excellent communication skills

Patience

Attention to detail

Job description

Overview

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

Shift patterns

We provide 24-hour care, with day shifts from 8am until 8pm and night shifts from 8pm until 8am.

• Day contracts: 8am–8pm
• Day contracts: 8am–2pm
• Day contracts: 2pm–8pm
• Night contracts: 8pm–8am

What Springcare can offer to you

• 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.

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.

Benefits and opportunities

• 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

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.

Requirements

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.