Care Assistant

3 weeks ago


Dover, United Kingdom Care Recruitment Matters Ltd Full time

Care Recruitment Maters are delighted to be recruiting for Care Assistants Level 2 to join the warm and friendly team providing personalised care and support for the Residents of a 6 bedded Care Home in the village of Whitfield, Dover.

The Home celebrates a CQC Rating of Good and specialises in the promotion of independence and social inclusion facilitating both internal and external activities enabling individuals to reach their own potential.

Are you passionate to enable people to live as independently as possible, focus on dignity and respect, would you strive to understand and meet the residents personalised care needs in a genuine safe and effective manner? If the answer is yes then you match the Company’s aim.

Requirements for the Role:

- To provide a high standard of care and support to every service user.
- To provide a safe, welcoming, nurturing, environment where service users are able to develop and grow at their own pace to maximise their potential emotionally, physically, intellectually, socially and spiritually.
- To offer consistent, unconditional care, enabling each service user to live in an environment that encourages positive relationships, mutual respect, trust, and consideration for others.
- To accept and understand each individual service user, at all times maintaining their dignity and self-respect. To ensure service users experience success and praise, enabling the stimulation of emotional growth and the development of trusting relationships. To assist service users in the development of their sense of identity and self-image, and preserve their cultural and religious heritage.
- To empower service users to make choices through the expression of wishes, feelings and preferences, developing their right to self-determination.
- To adopt a person-centred approach, ensuring the best possible support for each service user, providing a service specific to the needs of the individual, giving them a sense of permanence, security, and genuine unhurried commitment.
- To be sensitive to service users’ needs and expectations by encouraging their full participation and integration into the community, aiding them to develop daily living skills and activities of daily living to promote independence and choice.
- To enable service users to have access to a wide variety of individual and group activities, both in their home and in the local community, maximising their occupational, vocational and leisure potential.
- To accept challenging and disruptive behaviours and, as far as possible, channel these into positive avenues, and to remain committed to non-aversive methods of managing and reducing such behaviours.
- To recognise the specific communication needs of each individual and work towards enhancing their communication abilities and develop self-expression.
- To providing a home where residents are happy and living a life in its fullness.

In Return you will receive:

- A generous pay scale of £10.50 - £11.50 per hour ( Band 1-3, pay scale dependant on experience and qualification)
- Contracted 36 hours
- Overtime enhanced pay
- Excellent training and support.
- Health and Social Care learning and development opportunities.
- Uniform
- Company Pension

If you are interested in this role then please submit your CV and one of our friendly team will be in touch.

We are equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £10.50-£11.50 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Dover, Kent: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person


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