Care Assistant

Care Assistant

Our Clients home provides specialist nursing dementia and residential dementia care for up to 61 residents and prides itself on its outstanding team of highly skilled and passionate support staff equipped to support people living with different types of dementia including: Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular dementia and Korsakoff’s syndrome.

Package:

• £8.72 p/h + benefits
• Permanent Contract
• Day shift - 7am to 7pm
• Night shift - 7pm to 7am
• Working alternate weekends
• Location - Norfolk

About the role

You will work part of a great team and be making a difference to our residents by providing excellent care standards, taking pride in treating our residents as individuals. 

As a Care Assistant, you’ll help residents enjoy each day by making sure they get the quality care and support they deserve.  Responsible for supporting our elderly residents with daily living, providing support and companionship, assisting with their physical and personal needs – where every day is different and rewarding!

The skills you’ll need

Compassion’s the only qualification you need!

If making people’s lives better is what gets you up in the morning, you should come and join a like-minded team.  As a Care Assistant, you can make a real difference to the lives of our residents with reliable, compassionate care.

And we’re not looking for experience or qualifications: we’ll give you all the training you need. Furthermore, we’ll give you all the support you need to develop your career with us and progress into a Senior Care Assistant role.   

What we want above all are genuinely kind, sympathetic people, who will really get a thrill from enhancing the happiness and wellbeing of our residents. Whether it’s going out of the way to make them feel comfortable and respected, or just taking an interest in how their grandchildren are doing, you’ll be the kind of person who loves to brighten up our residents’ days.

If that sounds like you, we think you’ll love working for one of the UK’s leading providers of residential, nursing and dementia care for the elderly.

What are some of the benefits offered?

You can expect not just an exceptional and extensive benefits package as listed below, you will also get satisfaction of doing genuinely rewarding work.

• Paid annual leave 28 days per year (based on hours / pro rata) inclusive of bank holidays
• Full paid induction programme
• Excellent on-going training from day one and throughout your career
• Continuous training, mandatory and specialised
• Salary scales and progression with internal promotions available, we are a large organisation!
• Enhanced pay for working Christmas and Boxing day & Bank Holidays
• Professional subscriptions reimbursed where essential for role
• Long service awards
• Recognition programme
• Optional company pension scheme, once eligibility criteria met
• Employee discount scheme
• Discounted reloadable cards and high street vouchers
• e-vouchers, access instant savings on your mobile device
• Holiday discounts & days out with discounts up to 60%
• Cinema benefits with discounts up to 40%
• Employee Assistance Programme, confidential telephone counselling and legal advice 24 hours a day, 365 days a year & a Health & Wellbeing portal
• We are a Wagestream employer, this enables you to keep track of your earnings, have instant access to 40% of wages already earned and access guidance to help with financial wellbeing.
• Free or subsidised meals*