Weekend Care Assistant — Elderly & Dementia Support (Ripley)

Quality Service Recruitment Limited; Waingroves; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 20,000; Part time

Job summary

Quality Service Recruitment Limited is seeking experienced weekend Care Assistants to provide ad-hoc cover at a Ripley care home. Roles include assisting with personal care, daily living activities, and following care plans in a dementia-sensitive environment.

The role offers weekend shifts with pay between £13.50 and £14.00 per hour. DBS, infection control, safeguarding, and moving & handling training are required or can be organised via company training packages.

Qualifications

• Enhanced DBS dated within the last 12 months.
• Infection Control training.
• Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults training.
• Moving and Handling training.

Responsibilities

• Following personal care plans.
• Maintaining health and safety standards and complying with home requirements.
• General housekeeping and domestic duties.
• Reporting condition updates and recording fluid intakes.
• Helping patients remain as independent as possible and catering to their likes and dislikes.
• Assisting with daily living activities including morning and night-time routines.
• Working with support workers to provide a complex care package tailored to individual needs.
• Toileting/bed bathing and strip washing service users.

Skills

Enhanced DBS (last 12 months)

Infection control training

Safeguarding vulnerable adults

Moving and Handling training

Referenceable work history

Care home experience

Job description

Quality Service Recruitment Limited is seeking experienced weekend Care Assistants to provide ad-hoc cover at a Ripley care home. Roles include assisting with personal care, daily living activities, and following care plans in a dementia-sensitive environment.

The role offers weekend shifts with pay between £13.50 and £14.00 per hour. DBS, infection control, safeguarding, and moving & handling training are required or can be organised via company training packages.