Care Assistant – No experience needed – Come work for the best!!!

  • Location: Southampton, Hampshire
  • Position: Care Assistant
  • Care Categories: Dementia Care (Nursing home)
  • Negotiable Salary: £10.35ph – £11.35ph negotiable depending on experience
  • Hours: Full time hours or Part time hours depending on preference (22 hours, 33 hours and/or 44 hours options available)
  • Flexible Shifts: Day shifts /Night shifts or Mixed are available depending on your preference, all shifts are 12 hours 8/8 start and finish time
  • Contract type: Permanent

    • More information on the Nursing home and company:

    We are one of the UK’s leading private healthcare companies located in over 150 locations across the UK, it is our privilege to care for people – treating each resident as if they were part of our own family. Right now, we are looking for a Care assistant to develop their career at our home located in Southampton, Hampshire

    Having experience in a healthcare background is desirable but not essential as full training is provided. An essential requirement is a passion for care and making a difference to people’s lives.

    Our Home Recently refurbished, has been rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC (March 2019) and has been purpose-built to offer high levels of tailored short, or long term, care for those living with dementia. Palliative care is also offered.

    A typical day will involve:

  • Assisting residents with personal care duties such as bathing, dressing, toileting and incontinence care. Providing the highest standards of care, you’ll champion the dignity, and independence of all our residents
  • Supporting the Nurse or Senior Care Assistant to complete monthly and weekly checks to monitor the health of our residents and reporting any significant changes
  • Supporting at meal times: serving meals and transferring residents to the dining room. This might involve supporting them to walk, transferring them in a wheelchair or using a hoist
  • Attending planned activities: assisting the team, repositioning, providing care as necessary and taking part in day trips outside the home (day shift only)
  • Repositioning residents to ensure they are comfortable and supported
  • Admin duties: updating food, fluid and stool charts, supplementary files, daily notes and care plans

    • Its important that you are rewarded for your hard work so we will offer:

  • Comprehensive induction, on-going training and development, access to internal apprenticeship schemes
  • Your DBS Check (£40) paid for
  • NEST workplace pension, life assurance & bereavement support
  • 28 days annual leave (inclusive of statutory bank holidays)
  • Uniform provided
  • Health & wellbeing tools; including Be Me App, Healthy Minds, Gym Pass & discounted health assessments
  • Shopping Discounts (via Xexec)
  • Cash plan (after 18 months service) giving you the ability to claim on more everyday items such as dental, optical and private prescriptions.