Care Assistant – Part Time

Highpoint Care Limited; Haydock; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Part time

Job summary

Highpoint Care Limited is seeking a part-time Care Assistant to join the Collier's Croft home. You will work as part of a caring team, delivering personalised care in a safe environment and upholding residents' rights to privacy, dignity and independence.

You will provide high-quality personal care, support residents’ social activities, and help maintain clean, welcoming living spaces. The role requires reliability, good numeracy and strong communication with residents and staff.

Qualifications

• Good numeracy and literacy skills.
• Strong communication abilities with residents and team.
• Able to work as part of a caring team.
• Reliable and punctual in shift patterns.
• Willingness to develop new skills and follow care plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality personal care (toileting, bathing) following individual care plans.
• Maintain awareness of Health & Safety, COSHH, and Infection Control requirements; keep premises safe.
• Report changes in residents' condition to supervisor and update records.
• Respect confidentiality of residents' information and incidents.
• Encourage residents to participate in leisure activities and support social needs.
• Make and change beds; perform light cleaning and laundry as needed; keep home clean and welcoming.
• Assist with serving meals and drinks and support residents needing help to eat and drink.
• Work as a supportive team member, participate in meetings and assist new staff.

Skills

Numeracy

Literacy

Communication skills

Team player

Punctuality

Job description

Salary: £13.13 to £13.52 depending on experience

Hours: Earlies and Lates - 26.25 hours

Care Home: Collier's Croft

Care Assistant – Part-time Job Description

Job purpose

To work as an integral part of the caring team, delivering the highest standards of personalised care to residents, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and dignity, and that individual’s rights to privacy, dignity, independence and choice are met in a safe environment.

Key Responsibilities

• To provide the highest level of personal care (toileting, bathing etc) and attention to residents, following individual care plans carefully and ensuring that all contact is polite, friendly, warm and supportive. To act as a key worker for a named group of residents, ensuring that these responsibilities are carried out in full (as defined in the training manual).
• To understand and comply with all statutory and legal requirements which are relevant such as Health & Safety, COSHH, all aspects of the Health & Social Care Act, to maintain a safe environment throughout the home. Understand and have an awareness of Infection Control.
• To always be alert to resident’s safety, physical and mental well-being, immediately reporting any changes in a resident’s condition to a senior person on duty, and to accurately maintain and update residents’ records as required.
• To respect and maintain confidentiality of resident’s personal information at all times, this includes resident’s behaviour and actions and any incidents that may occur in the course of day to day care.
• Be understanding and patient towards residents and their needs, and encourage, assist and support residents to participate in leisure activities as appropriate to the individual, ensuring their social and emotional needs are met. This also includes escorting residents to outside appointments and leisure outings.
• Responsible for making and changing beds, tidying resident’s rooms (with the resident’s permission) undertaking light cleaning and laundry duties as needed and generally assisting in ensuring that the Home is kept clean, pleasant and welcoming at all times.
• Helping to serve meals and drinks at meal times and other times when required, taking care to present meals and refreshments in an attractive way, with polite and courteous service. Also, to provide the appropriate level of support and help for residents who need assistance to eat and drink.
• To be an active and supportive member of the Care team, contributing to team meetings, ensuring good communication and helping new team members as appropriate, ensuring that the Care Home is a safe, friendly and supportive working environment.

Relevant facts and figures relating to the job

Key worker to designated residents.
Formal supervision of certain carers.

Job context

This role of (care assistant – part-time) is a team role, but with clear responsibility for specified residents. Clear communication with other team members is essential.

To ensure that the Care Home values of trust, respect and care are always maintained and that each team member treats residents in the way that they would expect to be treated themselves.

Key measures

Mandatory training is up to date
Completed NVQ2 within 12 months of taking up position
Supervision meeting with Line Manager every 2 months
Results and feedback from Home inspections and audit reports (internal and external)

Person specification

Good numeracy and literacy skills. A warm and friendly disposition
Good communication skills, able to put others at ease
A strong team worker. Reliable and punctual
Willingness to develop new skills. Commitment to infection prevention and control
* (dependent on NVQ qualification and shift)