Care Assistant Nights

Springcare Ltd; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work pension scheme

Early pay via Wage Stream

Blue Light Card

Fully funded training (level 2–5)

Refer a friend bonus

Counselling and wellbeing support

Family friendly policies

Smooth recruitment process

Job summary

Springcare Ltd is seeking caring individuals to join our team as Carers. You will provide 24-hour care support, including assisting residents with daily activities and maintaining their dignity and comfort within a welcoming home environment.

We offer permanent full and part-time day or night contracts, pension access, early pay options, a Blue Light Card scheme, funded training from level 2 to 5, refer-a-friend bonuses, wellbeing support, and family-friendly policies.

Qualifications

• Compassion, sensitivity and understanding.
• Desire to help people and support residents.
• Strong people skills and excellent communication.
• Patience and the ability to stay calm under pressure.
• Thoroughness and attention to detail.
• Ability to carry out basic tasks on a computer or handheld device.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Compassion

Desire to help people

People skills

Communication skills

Patience

Attention to detail

Basic tech use

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 Night 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.

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.