Care Assistant

Overview

Care Assistant - day shifts - immediate start at Golders Green, NW11. Work flexibly around your family or other commitments, we can offer between 24 and 36 hours per week. We are recruiting Care Assistants to our residential care homes in Barnet. We care for older persons / older persons living with dementia.

• Duties will include personal care, moving and handling, mealtime support, social activities, and those other tasks required to support our residents through their lives.
• You will build strong relationships with all those around you, making sure family and friends feel welcomed, that health care professionals are kept well-informed, and that you are keeping your team leader up to speed with residents needs and progress.
• You will also help our residents to live a full life; to be more independent, to enjoy their daily activities, and to exercise choice in their day-to-day living.
• Whether you are assisting your team leader, completing care records, or lending someone a hand to eat their lunch, you will make all the residents you care for feel safe, comfortable and secure. In other words, you will make them feel right at home.

• Pay rates start at £12.25 per hour, and increase depending on your experience and qualifications.
• Paid holiday up to 28 days.
• Staff recognition scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Assistance with London transport costs.
• Assistance with London accommodation costs.
• Workplace pension contributions through NEST.
• Free uniform.
• Paid mandatory training, and the opportunity for ongoing specialist training (e.g. advanced food hygiene / diabetes / dementia) to support your professional development and meet care needs of service users.
• £250 signing-on bonus / £250 annual retention bonus / unlimited £250 refer a friend scheme.
• Career advancement opportunities.
• Long service awards.

• Experience working with older people in residential care; willing to learn, flexible, patient, caring, organised, enthusiastic, and great with people.
• Good written and verbal communication, and IT competence.
• Must be flexible to work shifts on a rota basis.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• You may have completed your QCF 1-5 (equivalent NVQ 2 or 3 in Care).

Please forward your CV with full contact details including postal and email address. On receipt your CV will be reviewed and we will contact you regarding a telephone interview. If successful we will complete recruitment, induction / training, and get you started as soon as possible. If you would like a meaningful career making a positive impact to the lives of those who require care and support, then please apply now!