Care Assistant (Days) Louth, England
Job description
Care Assistant (Days)
Meadows Park – Louth
Do you feel under appreciated in your current role? Would you like to join a growing team with the opportunity to bolster your skills and progress in your career? Meadows Park in Louth offers an abundance of training and support to develop you in your role whether you have experience or not.
A career in care offers you stability, training to develop yourself, the team and home. At Tanglewood we are expanding our homes and our teams. We are enthusiastic about promoting you as an individual, if you have specific career aspirations within care, we will advocate any training you need including NVQ Level 2, 3, 4, 5.
At Tanglewood we want you to reach your potential, we want you to be our next long serving team member!
We want you to come to us and stay with us long term and we show our appreciation with numerous perks! You will join a family environment with supportive staff and management, a competitive hourly rate, your DBS paid for, paid breaks, enhancement overtime rate of £3 extra per hour (terms and conditions apply) and a joining bonus after probation completion!
Meadows Park is one of our newer care homes complete with immaculate gardens, ensuite bedrooms, sweeping hallways, gardening rooms, games rooms, hairdressers, nail salon, cinema room and cocktail bar.
As a Care assistant you will be carrying out several responsibilities and duties to keep you motivated, stimulated and content:
· Helping support residents with getting ready for the day, outings and activities and promoting their independence and supporting them to continue addressing their needs,
· Accompanying residents with outings to shops, for walks, into the gardens and being company for them and caring for their well-being,
· Working with families to understand each residents needs, desires and purpose in their daily lives,
· Accompanying residents with indoor and outdoor activities and ensuring activities are what each resident will enjoy. They enjoy a variety of activities including drawing, quizzes, gardening, walks and even bowling.
· Being the individual who supports the residents, keeping them company and keeping their purpose in life strong,
· Keeping the residents safe, respecting their individuality and their integrity.
This list is not exhaustive and there are many aspects to being a carer at Tanglewood which tie in with our company values: to be empathetic with the residents, remember they are just like us! To be united as a team, innovative with your ideas and nurturing in nature and compassionate towards others.
You don’t need experience to begin your career with us, so do get in touch. We value our staff and if you want to make a difference for yourself and our residents then apply!
Tanglewood have competitive rates of pay, stability in shift patterns and an abundance of benefits:
· Free tunic when you begin,
· Meals included on shift,
· Induction and initial training for the role you begin,
· Ongoing refresher training and staff development and unique training tailored to your career route,
· Time and a half on all bank holidays,
· Refer a friend scheme,
· DBS paid for
· £3 per hour extra for overtime (terms and conditions apply)
· Competitive hourly rate
· Joining bonus
· Paid breaks
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £10.60 per hour
Benefits:
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: MP1
