Healthcare Assistant, Dartford Kent

Nellsar; Wilmington; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Bank holiday enhancement

Flexible hours

Refer a Friend

DBS paid by company

Induction programme

Funded qualifications

Uniforms

Employee support helpline

Job summary

Nellsar Care Group is seeking a dedicated Healthcare Assistant for Sonya Lodge Care Home in Dartford. You will provide compassionate physical, emotional and social support to residents, helping maintain their dignity and independence daily.

You will join a warm, supportive team with ongoing training and clear progression opportunities. The role is 40 hours per week across days and nights, with enhanced pay on bank holidays, DBS funded by the company, and access to funded qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Putting residents at the heart of care, respecting wishes and preferences.
• Follow care plans, assessments and risk assessments; maintain documentation.
• Promoting and safeguarding residents' welfare.
• Maintaining residents' independence, privacy and dignity.
• Keeping accurate care records on our software (handheld devices).
• Adhering to infection control procedures.

Job description

Job Vacancy: Healthcare Assistant

Location: Sonya Lodge Care Home, 10 High Road, Dartford DA2 7EG

Contracted hours: 40 hours (Mixed days and nights)

Hourly rate of pay: £13

As Healthcare Assistant at Nellsar Care Homes, you will enjoy being a part of an exceptionally supportive team, welcoming you into providing outstanding physical, emotional, and social assistance to the people living at Sonya Lodge Care Home.

The perfect role for you

Being a caring heart, with a passion for making people happy, you will thrive on bringing a smile on our residents’ face, whilst supporting their physical and mental wellbeing. Being a kind, compassionate person who respects people’s personal choice, dignity, and privacy, we would be honoured to welcome you in our team.

Nellsar is committed to developing and training our staff in order to ensure high quality care is provided to our residents and the successful candidate will receive on-going training and development with opportunities for progression within the Company, including apprenticeships for new and existing staff.

You will have the opportunity to excel whilst:

The Health Care Assistant responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Ensuring that residents are at the heart of care delivery and their wishes and preferences are taken into consideration to enhance their wellbeing.
• Ensuring care plans, assessments and risk assessments and other care documentation in place to support residents are followed accordingly.
• Being responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of residents.
• Maintaining the residents’ independence, privacy, and dignity always.
• Maintaining accurate and up to date records of all care given, onto our software package (handheld devices).
• Ensuring Infection Control procedures are always adhered to.

For more information on the role and to see the job description and person specification, please visit – https://recruitment.nellsar.co...

What we offer in return to your dedication:

• Competitive pay and paid training hours
• Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
• Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
• ‘Refer a Friend’ payments of up to £1000
• Enhanced DBS paid for by the company
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
• The opportunity to help your team develop
• Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline
• Nellsar work uniforms

If you would like to obtain more details about this exciting role, please contact Sonya Lodge Care Home at: 01322 289 768.

Why Choose Us?

Nellsar has been a family-run Company since 1988 and we provide exceptional care for residents across our group of 13 Care Homes in Kent, Surrey, and Essex. We consistently strive to achieve the highest standards of professional and person-centred care, and we achieve this by promoting the wellbeing and development of our team members. Our values focus on the individual, creating an inclusive environment with both residents and our teams at the heart of what we do every day.

It’s our mission at Nellsar to ensure that people live life to the full

• We are passionate about making every day count and bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their visitors and the team supporting them.
• More information about Sonya Lodge Care Home is available here https://sonya-lodge.nellsar.co...
• You will be an important member of the Sonya Lodge family, who will support you to reach your goals and feel accomplished by enhancing other people’s quality of life.

Nellsar is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.

Thank you for considering the possibility of joining the Nellsar family, we are looking forward to welcoming you!