Care Assistant Days/Nights

Springcare Ltd; Brighton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A care service provider in Brighton is seeking Care Assistants for day and night shifts. The role involves supporting residents with personal care, assisting with meals, and promoting individual wellbeing. Ideal candidates should possess compassion, excellent communication skills, and patience. Full-time and part-time contracts are available with benefits like a pension scheme and training opportunities. Join a supportive team dedicated to making a difference in residents' lives.

Benefits

Permanent contracts

Early pay access

Fully funded training

Counselling and wellbeing support

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Must have compassion, sensitivity, and understanding.
• Desire to help people in a care environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively with residents.

Responsibilities

• Assist with washing, dressing, and personal hygiene.
• Support residents during mealtimes.
• Engage residents in activities to promote wellbeing.
• Maintain cleanliness in private and communal areas.

Skills

Compassion

Sensitivity

Communication skills

Patience

Attention to detail

Job description

Hatton Court - Care Days/Nights

We now have an opportunity for Care Assistants for Days and Nights to join Hatton Court, where every day you can make a difference to someone's life.

About Springcare

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 or Night Contracts

Days Shift Contracts

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

Night Shift 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
• 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 Commitment

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.