Healthcare Assistant

Different Technologies Pty Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A care home provider is seeking a Healthcare Assistant for nights at Meyer House Care Home in Erith, offering a competitive hourly rate of £12.50. The role involves providing physical, emotional, and social assistance to residents while ensuring their wellbeing. Candidates should be compassionate and willing to engage in ongoing training. The position includes a flexible schedule, benefits such as annual leave, and workplace support. Join a family-run company committed to high-quality care and support.

Benefits

Competitive pay and paid training hours

Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays

Workplace pension

‘Refer a Friend’ payments up to £1000

Qualifications

• Ability to provide physical, emotional, and social assistance.
• Respect for residents' dignity and privacy.
• Willingness to undergo training and development.

Responsibilities

• Ensure residents' preferences are considered in care delivery.
• Maintain accurate records of care provided.
• Adhere to infection control procedures.

Skills

Compassionate

Strong communication

Teamwork

Job description

Healthcare Assistant Nights

Location: Meyer House Care Home, 28 Meyer Road, Erith DA8 3SJ

Contracted hours: 22 hours (to include – every other weekend free, as applicable), mixed day and night shifts.

Hourly rate: £12.50

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 Meyer House 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:

• 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
• Workplace pension
• ‘Refer a Friend’ payments of up to £1000
• Enhanced DBS paid for by the company on completion of six months employment
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
• 5.6 weeks annual leave
• Working in a supportive team
• 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 Meyer House Care Home at: 01322 338 329.

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 Meyer House Care Home is available here https://meyer-house.nellsar.co...
• You will be an important member of the Meyer House 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!