About this role
Job summary Barchester Healthcare is seeking a compassionate and dedicated individual to join their team as a Bank Care Assistant at a care home in Ashford. This temporary role offers flexibility in working hours and days, as it involves covering for annual leave or sick leave. As a Bank Care Assistant, you will provide quality care and support to residents, assisting with daily living activities, fostering companionship, and ensuring each resident receives personalized one-to-one time. Your role is integral in creating a fulfilling and supportive environment for residents while utilizing your caregiving skills and gaining valuable career development opportunities within a leading healthcare organization.
Main duties of the job As a Bank Care Assistant at a Barchester care home, you will help residents enjoy each day by ensuring they receive the quality care and support they deserve. This includes assisting with daily living, providing support and companionship, and sharing meaningful moments and memories. Every day will be different, and your work may involve supporting residents with their food and drink, following care plans, and ensuring that each resident has one-on-one time. This role allows you to put your skills to meaningful use, and you will receive training to thrive in this environment. This Bank position provides cover as needed, offering true flexibility with varied hours and days.
About us Barchester Healthcare is one of the UK's leading healthcare providers, offering quality care and support to residents in their care homes. They emphasize the personal and professional growth of their employees, providing a rewarding environment where dedication and compassion are highly valued. Barchester Healthcare believes in treating staff with the same quality care and respect that they extend to their residents. They offer plenty of free learning and development opportunities, promoting the growth of everyone who works for them. Joining Barchester Healthcare means being part of a supportive organization dedicated to delivering the highest standards of care.
Job description Job responsibilities
ABOUT THE ROLEAs 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.
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Experience in caring for older people, a can-do approach, and excellent communication skills.
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
Ashford
TN24 0LX
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)