Care Assistant Nights

Springcare Ltd; Wirral; Hybrid; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A care service provider in Wirral is seeking compassionate carers to join their team. Responsibilities include assisting residents with personal care and supporting their wellbeing. Training and development opportunities are provided, along with flexible shift patterns. The ideal candidates will be understanding and patient, eager to make a difference in residents' lives.

Benefits

Permanent contracts

Fully funded training for recognized qualifications

Access to discounts through Blue Light Card

Counselling and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and people skills required.
• Ability to provide compassionate care to residents.
• Experience in a care setting preferred, but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Assist residents with washing, dressing, and feeding.
• Support the physical and mental wellbeing of residents.
• Maintain cleanliness in residents' private spaces.

Skills

compassion

communication skills

patience

attention to detail

computer skills

Job description

Overview

Park House - Care Nights - 36 hours a week. 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, with day care shifts from 8am until 8pm, and night-time shifts from 8pm until 8am.

Typical Shift patterns

• Day Contracts
• 8am until 8pm
• 8am until 2pm
• 2pm until 8pm
• 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
• 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.

Application and 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.