Care Assistant - Evening shifts

Hollybank Trustees Ltd; Chippenham; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Perkbox

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Pilgrims’ Friend Society in Chippenham is seeking compassionate Care Assistants for Twilight Shifts to join our on-site team at Middlefields House, caring for 48 residents.

We provide 24/7 care with day and night staff; you’ll support residents with personal care, meals, and companionship, while upholding our Christian ethos.

Applicants should have care experience and empathy for older people; weekend and flexible hours offered, with a friendly, supportive team and ongoing training.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing care and an understanding of dementia is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide a high quality, professional service of care to our residents.
• Help a resident with personal cleanliness such as helping a resident with a bath.
• Support residents to eat and drink.
• Get to know residents so as to comfort, assist and give reassurance when needed.
• Treat others as individuals with unique and diverse needs.
• Treat our residents with dignity and respect.
• Support our residents to keep independent and healthy and encourage them to be part of the community within the home.
• Assist with tidying, cleaning, laundering and other domestic tasks when needed.
• You need to be someone who enjoys working with older people and can have an empathy with them;
• You need to be able to work in a team and be willing to take on any task to provide an excellent level of care to our clients; and
• You need to be well-organised, adaptable and practical.
• Experience in providing care and an understanding of dementia is essential.

Skills

Care experience

Dementia understanding

Job description

Location: On site / MIDDLEFIELDS HOUSE, CORNFIELDS, CHIPPENHAM, SN14 6GA
job type: Permanent / Part-time
Sector and subsector: Medical & Healthcare | Healthcare Assistants
Hourly Salary range:from £ 13.34 to £ 13.34
Salary details: Weekend rate: £13.70

Care Assistants - Twilight Shifts x2

Could you do a job where you change lives?

Do you have care experience?

Are you looking for growth opportunities?

We are currently looking to appoint compassionate and committed Care Assistant to join our dynamic Care Team in our newly built, state of the art Middlefields House catering for 48 residents. View our stunning homehere .

We provide 24/7 care and support to our older and sometimes sick residents and are seeking for both day and night staff to bring on board.

Our Christian background is at the heart of both our values and actions to ensure that the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs of all residents are met.

• Provide a high quality, professional service of care to our residents.
• Help a resident with personal cleanliness such as helping a resident with a bath.
• Support residents to eat and drink.
• Get to know residents so as to comfort, assist and give reassurance when needed.
• Treat others as individuals with unique and diverse needs.
• Treat our residents with dignity and respect.
• Support our residents to keep independent and healthy and encourage themto be part of the community within the home.
• Assist with tidying, cleaning, laundering and other domestic tasks when needed.
• You need to be someone who enjoys working with older people and can have an empathy with them;
• You need to be able to work in a team and be willing to take on any task to provide an excellent level of care to our clients; and
• You need to be well-organised, adaptable and practical.
• Experience in providing care and an understanding of dementia is essential.
• Working pattern: Alternative weekend and one week working 16hrs and one-week 12hrs

• Career development: Whether you are starting your career or looking to expand your skills.
• Being part of our friendly and committed staff team
• Assigned buddy
• Ongoing support from management
• Flexible working: various working hours
• Pension scheme
• Care Friends referral
• Perkbox including an Employee assistance programme.
• Long-standing service rewards

What our staff say about us: It is a friendly and welcoming place to work.

Pilgrims’ Friend Society is a registered charity. Our Christian ethos is central to everything we plan and do. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Please note: this vacancy may close sooner if sufficient applications have been received so please apply as soon as possible if interested.