Care Assistant - Experience Required Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber, England
Bupa Care Homes
Full Time
Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber, England
10.35 - 11.25 GBP HOURLY Today
Job description
Care Assistant - Experience Required
- COT00UUCare Assistant
Cottingley Hall Care Home
Bradford Rd, Bingley BD16 1TX
We know that family can come from anywhere. At Bupa Care Homes, it's our privilege to care for people – treating each resident as if they were part of our own family. Right now, we’re looking for a caring individual to join our friendly team at Cottingley Hall Care Home in Bingley, Leeds.
Working hours and salary
£10.35-£11.25 per hour dependent upon experience and qualifications , free parking, hot meal on shift and DBS payment covered
Shift patterns: 8am - 8pm or 8pm - 8am
Full time/part time and bank contracts available.
Flexible working opportunities: From term time only, to set days/hours per week – we can offer a range of shift patterns that best fit around your lifestyle. Just let us know what hours you want, and we’ll work with you to make sure you get the shift patterns that you’re looking for.
What your typical day involves
- Assisting residents with personal care duties such as bathing, dressing, toileting and incontinence care. Providing the highest standards of care, you’ll champion the dignity, and independence of all our residents
- Supporting the Nurse or Senior Care Assistant to complete monthly and weekly checks to monitor the health of our residents and reporting any significant changes
- Supporting at meal times: serving meals and transferring residents to the dining room. This might involve supporting them to walk, transferring them in a wheelchair or using a hoist
- Attending planned activities: assisting the team, repositioning, providing care as necessary and taking part in day trips outside the home (day shift only)
- Repositioning residents to ensure they are comfortable and supported
- Admin duties: updating food, fluid and stool charts, supplementary files, daily notes and care plans
Who we’re looking for
With previous experience working in a care setting, you’re someone that cares for others and wants to make a real difference to people’s lives. From your experience, you know there will be challenging days, but you also know that you'll laugh, have fun and make lasting memories with our residents as you get to know them. A great communicator, you’ll enjoy working in a close-knit team that feels like a family, with people from all walks of life. You’ll cherish the rewarding moments you have with our residents each and every day.
What’s in it for you?
- Comprehensive induction, on-going training and development, access to internal apprenticeship schemes
- Your DBS Check (£44) paid for
- Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that offers you the choice to be in control of when you access your earnings*
- NEST workplace pension, life assurance & bereavement support
- 28 days annual leave (inclusive of statutory bank holidays)
- Hot meal provided on a 12-hour shift
- Refer a friend bonus scheme
- Uniform provided
- Health & wellbeing tools; including Be Me App, Healthy Minds, Gym Pass & discounted health assessments
- Shopping Discounts (via Xexec)
- Cash plan (after 18 months’ service) giving you the ability to claim on more everyday items such as dental, optical and private prescriptions
- Free flu vaccine
- Only available to permanent employees where HealthRoster is used.
Who we are
At Bupa Care Services, we want everyone to Love Working Here, to help us achieve this and measure colleague engagement we regularly check in with our teams through our People Pulse survey. We’re proud that at Cottingley Hall we’re achieving a world class level of colleague engagement – as measured by our survey provider, Glint in June 2022.
As a leading healthcare group, we run care homes, retirement villages, health centres, dental centres and hospitals all over the world. As well as providing insurance to over 16 million people. We’re a big company but no matter what business area you’re in, our purpose is simple – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives.
And we have belief in you to help us achieve it.
Please note that we are unable to offer Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship for this role. Therefore, you must ensure that you are eligible to work in the UK without our sponsorship in order for your application to be considered.
Want to know more? Check us out on Facebook and Twitter by searching for Bupa UK Careers.
Bupa is committed to ensuring that every applicant is assessed for employment, promotion and development solely based on personal merit and qualifications, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.
Work Locations Cottingley Hall Bradford Road Bingley Bradford BD16 1TX
Unposting Date Ongoing
Salary Amount £10.35-£11.25
Bupa Care Homes
careers.bupa.co.uk
London, United Kingdom
Iñaki Ereño
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Private
Healthcare Services & Hospitals
1947
