Care Assistant - Bank

Care Assistant - Bank

Could you do a job where you change lives?

Do you have care experience?

Looking to work for a friendly and dynamic team? If yes, apply now!

We are looking for compassionate and adaptable Care Assistants to join our friendly and dedicated Care Team at our home in Preston.

Shottermill House is an attractive, modern care home about two miles from the centre of Haslemere in Surrey and offers both residential care and dementia care. The health, well-being and happiness of our residents are of primary importance to us. Our love here.

Have a watch here of "What it means for us, to work in a Christian Care Home like ours": https://youtu.be/uCa1_BtS34w

Responsibilities:

• Provide high quality, professional service of care to our residents.
• Help a resident with personal cleanliness such as helping a resident with a bath.
• Support residents to eat and drink.
• Get to know residents so as to comfort, assist and give reassurance when needed.
• Treat others as individuals with unique and diverse needs.
• Treat our residents with dignity and respect.
• Support our residents to keep independent and healthy and encourage them to be part of the community within the home.
• Assist with tidying, cleaning, laundering and other domestic tasks when needed.
• Assist in the care at end of life.

For more details please take a look at the Care Assistant Job Description

About you:

• You need to be someone who enjoys working with older people and can have empathy with them;
• You need to be able to work in a team and be willing to take on any task to provide an excellent level of care to our clients; and
• You need to be well-organised, adaptable and practical.

For more details please take a look at the Person Specification.

Hours:

Bank shifts available, day or night

Benefits:

• Weekend rate: £15.81
• Get paid for doing your training!
• Training & development
• Career development: Whether you are starting your career or looking to expand your skills.
• Paid DBS checks
• Being part of our friendly and committed staff team
• Assigned buddy
• Ongoing support from management
• Flexible working: various working hours
• Team events
• Pension scheme
• Care Friends referral
• Medicash
• Perkbox - including an Employee assistance programme.
• Long-standing service rewards
• Birthday rewards

- What our staff say about us: ..."It is a friendly and welcoming place to work" ... -

Pilgrims' Friend Society is a registered charity. Our Christian ethos is central to everything we plan and do. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Please note: this vacancy may close sooner if sufficient applications have been received so please apply as soon as possible if interested.