Care Assistant Nights

Springcare Ltd; Leicester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in the UK is looking for passionate Care Assistants for night shifts to provide essential support to residents. Responsibilities include helping with daily activities, maintaining a clean living environment, and ensuring the well-being of residents. This role allows you to make a meaningful impact on the lives of others while pursuing a career in care. Springcare offers various benefits including training, flexible contracts, and support programs for employees.

Benefits

Access to work place pension scheme

Early pay options through Wage Stream App

Fully funded training

Refer a friend scheme

Access to counselling support

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Compassion, sensitivity and understanding towards others.
• Desire to help people and support their needs.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Assist with washing and dressing residents.
• Support feeding and mealtimes for residents.
• Engage with residents to understand their interests and needs.
• Conduct general housekeeping duties.
• Support residents' physical and mental wellbeing through activities.

Skills

Compassion

Communication skills

Patience

Attention to detail

Job description

The Lawns- Care Assistant Nights- 22 hours per week

Overview

We now have an opportunity for carers to join Springcare, where every day you can make a difference to someone's life.

What qualities 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 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

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.