WCS Care is a registered charity and care home provider with 13 homes in Warwickshire. Eleven of our homes provide residential care for older people and people living with dementia and two of our homes provide care for adults with physical disabilities and lifelong conditions.
As a member of our care team at WCS, you'll have the ability to get to know different residents and teams quickly and communicate with a wide range of people confidently.
We think our care team are heroes – in fact, we put it on their fleeces. They bring compassion, patience and love to their work. Whilst there are core elements of the work that everyone needs to do, we support our team members to bring the best of themselves, and their interests and passions, to work.
So although your main role will be to support the daily lives of our residents and help them with their personal care - if you like sport, you could run a sports club. If you're interested in local history, you could create a local history guide for residents, capturing their stories too.
We have a great range of training and development opportunities for our carers – there's on the job development, e-learning, classroom-based training and our management college.
What skills and knowledge could you add to our team?
The list below is just a guide - if you see something you aren't able to do, or want to improve at, that's fine - you can learn with us
Responsibilities and duties
Our ambition is that every day is a day well lived for our residents (and our staff). Your job is to always promote residents' rights to be cared for in the way they choose and to deliver and monitor care services in the following areas:
* Social care and relationships
* Daily living
* Communication
* Physical health and personal care
* Administration of medication as directed
* Mealtime experiences and nutrition
* Mobilisation
* Management of continence
* Rest and comfort
* The environment
* Completion of care plans, and other records and reports as required
* Delivery of a quality service
* Evaluation of practice and use of new knowledge to continually improve practice
* Relate to, and interact with, residents and other people in a manner that promotes self-esteem and a positive self-image
* Report risks of harm to residents and others
* Assistance to maintain healthy and safe practices in the home
Qualifications and skills
Experience of working in a care-related field is an advantage. However, we're looking for people who can live our values and want to deliver high quality care to our residents. All training will be provided, including BSL.
If you're interested and this seems like the sort of role you'd enjoy, we'd love for you to get in touch
We may close our job adverts early from time-to-time - we wouldn't want you to miss an opportunity so please apply promptly.
This role may also be referred to with the following terms by other providers: social care assistant, social worker, care assistant, care worker, key carer, experienced carer
Benefits
WCS Care offers a range of benefits including:
* staff rostering mobile app (BookJane) which lets you check your rota and pick up extra shifts quickly and easily from your phone
* flexible and scheduled shifts for work/life balance
* access to faster pay through Wagestream (up to 50% of earned wages before payday) as well as saving accounts, a benefits checker and financial advice
* employee assistance programme offering health and wellbeing, employment, financial and legal advice to staff and their family members
* in-house Management and Care Colleges to support team members to progress their careers in care
* free training online and in-person
* continual investment in our people, evidenced by our Investors in People Platinum level accreditation
* auto-enrolment pension scheme
* referral scheme offering £250 per successful candidate (when they've been with us for 3 months and have worked 3 shifts per week)
* free workwear, including fleece
* free DBS check