Work with Forest Homecare
Job Title: Night Care Assistant
Location: Forest Home, Sible Hedingham – CO9
Division: Care home
Responsible to: Home Manager
Hours: 8:00 pm to 8:00 am (Night shift)
Salary:
Sunday to Thursday - £12.40 per hour
Friday to Saturday - £12.62 per hour
Forest Home is recruiting Care Assistants to work in Sible Hedingham, CO9. No experience is necessary as full paid training is provided.
You will be part of an established family-run care home that operates throughout Essex & Suffolk.
Your main duties will include:
· Maintaining professional standards of care within the home at all times
· Take full precautions for the safety of residents, staff and visitors within the home
· To complete any training courses necessary
· Take the necessary fire precautions and adhere at all times to the fire rules
· Adhere to moving and handling policy and individual moving and handling assessments
· Adhere to infection control policy
· To have a clean and tidy appearance
· To consult care plans and risk assessments on a regular basis
· Total care of elderly residents including confused, disabled, frail, incontinent and when necessary a dying resident
· Promoting initiative, individual potential and interest in all residents within the home
· Assist residents to preserve their dignity, self-respect and privacy
· Attend to laundry and residents personal clothing
· Regular 2 hourly checks minimal to be completed and residents turned regularly when required, more frequent checks to be done when resident unwell or dying
· Drinks to be served at any time upon residents requests
· To assist residents to eat when required in a non-hurried, pleasant manner
· Assist any residents to bed who are still up, and get any residents up who wish in the mornings, washing and dressing them
· Housework to be completed
· If you are in doubt about something when caring for a resident, always seek advice from the person on-call
· Consult night staff routine procedures for a more in depth list of things to be completed.
We can offer you full or part-time hours including every other weekend.
Essential:
· Have a naturally caring and compassionate nature
· Be reliable and honest
· Understand the importance of maintaining our Service Users' dignity and respect
· Excellent verbal and written communication
What we can offer you:
· Paid induction training with regular updates
· Care Certificate and Health and Social Care Qualifications
· Free DBS Check (if required)
· Uniforms and PPE provided
· Holiday Pay
· Auto Enrolment Pension Scheme
· Join a great team working for a highly respected organization
· Support & encouragement to progress and reach your full potential within your chosen career
Forest Home is positive about inclusion and welcomes applications from individuals who can meet the requirements of the job position and may wish to request flexible working or reasonable adjustments to support them.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £12.40-£12.62 per hour
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Employee discount
* Free parking
* On-site parking
* Store discount
Work Location: In person