Care Assistant

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Care Assistant to work up to Full Time based in a care home in Swindon.

The salary for this permanent job is up to £20,938

Main Duties:

• To be available to work within a flexible rota during nights and days, weekends, sleep ins and bank holidays, to cover the needs of the service users
• To encourage and enable service users to develop and maintain skills to maximise independent living within a care home setting
• To assist service users with personal care as directed by their care plan and with nutritional intake as directed by their care plan
• As appropriate and in consultation with the Manager or senior staff, address issues of concern on behalf of the service user
• Maintain accurate and up to date records of work with service users, including report writing of occurrences and reporting any accidents or incidents that occur
• Attend training courses to improve and broaden knowledge and skills base and to keep up to date with current issues
• To work and adhere to the principles of our policies and procedures for example confidentiality, data protection act, together with national guidance and policies for supporting and valuing people
• To participate in regular building checks throughout the day/night for the safety of service users. Family, friends and staff team
• To provide emotional support for sick and dying service users in conjunction with family, friends and staff team.
• To participate in moving and handling training and use equipment such as transfer boards, slide sheets, turntables and hoist as set down in service users care plans
• To be aware and comply with Health and safety, Manual handling, COSSH Food Hygiene Fire, First aid, and accident. Incident policies as set down by the organisation
• To assist the domestic staff in cleaning service users’ bedrooms, or any other domestic task as required by the Manager

Requirements of this job:

• Level 2 in Health and Social Care qualification or equivalent, or willingness to undertake this
• Experience of caring for older people
• Experience of working in the community or care home on a one-to-one basis with service users
• Knowledge of the issues affecting vulnerable people
• Understanding of health and safety manual handling issues
• Understanding of the need to keep within professional boundaries

Contact:

This job is advertised by Sam Kittle; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.