Care Assistant

About The Role

As our Care Assistant, you’ll provide personal care to our residents, supporting them with bathing, eating, visiting the bathroom, and also getting around and enjoying our lovely home. Your warm, supportive, and caring nature will help you build meaningful relationships with our residents and you will get to know everything about their likes and dislikes as well as their needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care to residents, supporting with bathing, eating, visiting the bathroom, and mobility
• Follow electronic care plans for each resident and administer medication as prescribed, accurately maintaining appropriate records for both
• Remain alert at all times to residents’ physical and mental wellbeing
• Help maintain high standards ensuring residents’ home is always clean and safe

Ideal Candidate

We're looking for people who have a caring nature and want to work as part of an amazing team, surrounded by kindness and fun. For most roles, you don’t need specific qualifications or experience to be successful as full training is provided. What we look for are individuals who share our sense of compassion, care about people’s comfort and happiness and want to make a positive difference to the lives of our treasured residents and team members.

Benefits

• £13.50 per hour
• Full time role - 44 to 48 hours per week
• Weekday and alternate weekend shifts
• Enhanced pay on bank holidays
• 28 days annual leave (inclusive of statutory bank holidays)
• Pension
• Staff recognition schemes
• Refer a Friend bonus of up to £1000
• Cycle to work scheme
• £50 gift card for "I have an idea" scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Comprehensive Training and Career Development
• A friendly and supportive working environment
• Dedicated mental health champions

About Us And Our Home

We’re proud of our happy home and are dedicated to creating a place where everyone enjoys coming to work each day. As well as being part of a lively and supportive team, we are surrounded by fascinating residents who also bring so much to our lives every day too.

At Bridge House Care Home, we believe a happy, supported team delivers the best care. That’s why we’ve signed the Mental Health at Work Commitment – developed by experts with six essential standards that help us to create a home where everyone feels safe, valued, and able to thrive. From trained Mental Health Champions to our online Wellbeing & Mindfulness Space, we make sure our people have the tools, time, and support they need – because your wellbeing matters here and when we take care of our minds, we can take care of each other and our residents even better.