Job details
- Salary Pensions, holidays
- Role Carer / Care Assistant / Care Support Worker
- Hours Full Time
- Location Dereham, Norfolk
Job summary
We are currently recruiting for a Care Assistant for both day and night shifts. Experience isn’t essential. If you would like to work in health and social care and deliver the support and care our residents require, this role is perfect for you.
We will offer a range of benefits including:
- Free onsite parking
- Free uniform
- NEST work place pension contributions
- Long service awards
- Performance based reviews/bonuses
Your responsibilities may involve:
- Personal care – help with getting in and out bed, washing, eating, dressing and personal hygiene
- Understanding our resident’s communication needs and adapting your communication to each individual, e.g. sounds, tones, body language
- Overseeing medication – with appropriate training first and all based on the resident's personal care plan.
- Companionship – provide company for your customers, treating them with dignity, patience and compassion at all times.
- Delivering quality personal care to each of our residents
- Providing emotional support to individuals and their families
Skills / Qualifications:
- caring
- kind
- supportive
- team player
- strong communicator
- hard working
- energetic
- empathethic