Care Assistant

Our client, a medium size nursing home are looking for a care assistant to start asap doing nights or days

Duties will include

Supporting the activities of daily living in a person centred manner

Promote physical and personal independence as well as choice in all daily activities

Help in promoting a stimulating and homely environment

To assist with toileting needs, including continence promotion

To change beds, tidy rooms and do light cleaning.

To help in the serving of meals and drinks, feeding those individuals who are unable to feed themselves

The role of Health Care Assistant is primarily to support our service users, with direction from a qualified Nurse & client centred care packages, with day to day care tasks such as personal care, support with therapies & activities and to maintain their mental, physical, social & spiritual health and wellbeing.

Staff will benefit from -

Supported to achieve relevant qualifications in Health & Social Care

Competitive hourly rates of pay

Increased pay rates in relation to qualification achievements

Day and night shifts available

The positions available include day and night shifts, and include working bank holidays and at least three weekends per month. Initial pay scale is minimum wage without qualifications, however, this is reviewed after three months with respect to provision of hourly rate increase.