Carer

Springcare Ltd; Upper Welland; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Springcare Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a dedicated Care Assistant to support residents with daily living tasks and wellbeing. You will work as part of our team providing 24-hour care across day and night shifts, delivering compassionate support while maintaining residents' dignity and independence.

Key qualities include compassion, effective communication, patience, and the ability to stay calm under pressure.

Qualifications

• Compassionate and understanding attitude toward residents.
• Excellent communication and people skills.
• Patient and able to stay calm under pressure.
• Willingness to learn basic computer/hand-held device tasks.
• Respectful care with dignity.

Responsibilities

• Help with washing and dressing.
• Assist with feeding and mealtimes.
• Find out residents' interests and needs.
• General housekeeping in bedrooms and communal areas.
• Support residents’ physical and mental wellbeing through activities.
• Provide 24-hour care with day shifts (8am–8pm) and night shifts (8pm–8am).

Skills

Compassion

Sensitivity

Understanding

People skills

Communication skills

Patience

Computer tasks

Tools

Hand-held device

Job description

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.

What qualities does it take to be a Care Assistant at Springcare?compassion, sensitivity and understandinga desire to help peoplepeople skills and excellent communication skillspatience and the ability to keep calm and work well under pressureto be thorough and pay attention to detailto be able to carry out basic tasks on a computer or hand-held deviceNot 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.