Job description
12.25 Hour Shifts with a 1 hour unpaid break.
Full time position of 39.5 hours per week on average.
Pay rates are under review.
Working hours are between 6:45pm and 7am.
What we Offer
* Health and Wellbeing incentives through Medicash
* Optical Care, Routine Dental Treatment, Dental Accident
* Health screening, specialist consultations, Diagnostic tests and scans
* Skin Vision
* Digital physiotherapy
* GP and prescription service
* Discounted Gym Membership
* Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 access to counsellors
* Free staff parking
* Blue Light card discount
* Refer a friend bonus
* Monetary rewards for long service
* Training and Development opportunities
About us
Cedar Court Dementia Care Home is a privately-owned nursing home registered for a maximum of 45 service users and is based in a convenient location just off the A511 in South Derbyshire and just 5 miles from Burton on Trent.
We are currently looking for a Care Assistant with a natural caring nature to join our team.
Our aim at Cedar Court is to provide the highest standard of care in a relaxed, friendly environment. We specialise in caring for people with dementia with a friendly and empathetic approach. We ensure that residents can still enjoy the freedom and lifestyle of their choice, whilst receiving care that is appropriate to their needs built on dignity and respect and you will play a key part in this:
What you will be doing
* To assist with care and support of the service users under the supervision of a senior in charge.
* To encourage and promote the quality of life according to needs as identified in a service users personal care plan.
* Assist service users with personal care tasks, such as washing, dressing, eating.
* Assist in the safe lifting, transferring, repositioning and movement of service users.
What you will bring
* A naturally caring approach and a passion for helping people maintain their dignity, independence, and choice.
* A respectful, courteous, and compassionate nature and belief in giving your personal best at all times.
* Good communication skills to effectively interact with service users and fellow colleagues.
* Reliability and flexibility to support the nature of the business.
* Previous experience is not required but would be welcomed as a full induction package is provided.
Desirable but not essential
* A diploma in Health and Social Care Level 2
* Previous experience in dementia care is desirable, but not essential
Candidates should feel confident working with challenging behaviour in a busy environment.
Cedar Court Dementia Care Home is part of Your Health Limited and is a progressive company which promotes career advancement opportunities providing free both online and classroom-based training to all care staff.
Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check.
Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications are received.
As we often have many applicants for jobs at Your Health Limited, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are short-listed for interview. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been short-listed for interview on this occasion.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
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