About this role
Job summary The role of a Bank Care Assistant at Barchester Healthcare offers you the chance to bring your dedication and compassion to a fulfilling environment. Operating on a temporary and flexible basis, you will provide invaluable support and companionship to residents in a care home setting. Each day presents new challenges and rewards as you assist with daily living activities, support residents with food and drink, and ensure they have personal one-on-one time. With a competitive hourly wage, this position allows you to make a meaningful impact while developing your skills and growing in your career.
Main duties of the job This is a casual, part-time role offering flexible working. As a Bank Care Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help residents enjoy each day by ensuring they receive quality care and support. You'll assist with daily living, providing support and companionship and sharing great moments and memories too. Every day will be different, offering varied and rewarding work. As a Bank Care Assistant, you might be supporting residents with meals or following care plans to ensure each resident has one-to-one time. You'll be using your skills in a meaningful way while developing your career.
About us Barchester Healthcare is one of the UKs leading healthcare providers, dedicated to ensuring high-quality care for their residents. They offer a rewarding work environment where employees have opportunities for learning and development. Recognizing the importance of each team member's growth, Barchester is committed to providing its staff with a fulfilling career path. With a focus on flexibility, Barchester aims to deliver care that meets the high standards they would expect for their loved ones. Joining Barchester means becoming part of a team that values your skills and contributions.
Job description Job responsibilities
ABOUT THE ROLEThis is a casual, part-time role offering flexible working. As a Bank Care Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll help residents enjoy each day by making sure they get the quality care and support they deserve. You'll assist with daily living, providing support and companionship and sharing great moments and memories too. It's a chance to bring your dedication and compassion to a fulfilling environment. Every day will be different, so you can expect to undertake work that's as varied as it is rewarding. As a Bank Care Assistant, you could be doing anything from supporting residents with their food and drink and following care plans to ensuring that each of our residents has one-to-one time. It's an opportunity to put your skills to meaningful use and develop your career.
ABOUT YOUTo join us as a Bank Care Assistant you'll need to have some experience of caring for older people, a can-do approach and excellent communication skills. Your empathy and warm-hearted approach will shine through, but above all, you'll have the compassion needed to deliver the highest standard of care and support for all our residents. In return we'll provide all the training you need to thrive.
REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as competitive pay, you can look forward to a role that offers true flexibility and plenty of free learning and development opportunities. As one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, we take the growth of everyone who works for us seriously.
As this is a Bank position to provide cover as and when we need it, such as for annual leave or sick leave, the hours and days you work will vary.
If you'd like to use your people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
To become a Bank Care Assistant, you will need some experience in caring for older people, a can-do approach, and excellent communication skills. Your empathy and warm-heartedness should be evident, and most importantly, you should have the necessary compassion to deliver the highest quality of care and support to all residents.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Barchester Healthcare
Address Barchester Healthcare
Bourne
PE10 9TU
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)