Casual Care Assistants - Hampstead, NW3 3BX, United Kingdom
C&C is looking to expand our current team of Casual Care Assistants for both day and night shifts.
You'll work alongside an amazing team that care passionately about our residents. We work hard to keep our residents engaged, active and enjoying their lives. Whether you would like to support our residents directly with their physical care and personal hygiene needs or instead help us in maintaining high levels of cleanliness across our homes, you can make a real contribution.
Based in Swiss Cottage, Camden area of London in one of our beautiful Care Homes, Compton Lodge, we are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our team.
We can be flexible to accommodate other lengths of shift, for example covering our busiest times.
We are passionate about our colleagues Learning, Development & Career progression, so we support our Care colleagues with achieving their Care Certificates if required, which empowers our colleagues to deliver the best dementia care and support for our residents.
About us
C&C is a forward-thinking and innovative charitable provider of housing, care, and bespoke services exclusively for older people in London. We have 90 years’ experience of retirement home design and living in London. We are very proud of the ‘family’ feel of our Care Homes.
We have four remarkable traditional care homes, in Swiss Cottage, Camden and Kew and Teddington, Richmond area of London.
About you
You will need:
* Good communication skills
* Basic literacy and numeracy skills
* To be compassionate and patient
* Ideally some experience in a caring industry, for example hospitality or schools
* To pass our DBS check or be on the DBS update service
* The ability to verify your right to work in the UK
Even better if you have previous experience of a care environment, providing personal care or knowledge of dementia.
C&C as part of the Aster Group is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.
We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:
* A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
* We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
* Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
* Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
* Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
* We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives, and monthly and annual awards
Please note, we are actively shortlisting candidates throughout the duration of the advert, interviews will be held as soon as possible, and we will make an offer immediately if we find the right candidate. Apply without delay!