Care Assistant

2 days ago

Darlington, United Kingdom The Five Lamps Organisation Full time

Five Lamps is proud of it's mission, vision and values

Mission
- To Transform Lives, Raise Aspirations and Remove Barriers to Social, Economic & Financial Inclusion

Vision
- Creating Possibilities: Improving Lives

Values
- To make people matter, by releasing their potential and encouraging self-worth
- Performance matters, by achieving targets and meeting quality standards
- Quality matters, by assuring quality and achieving contemporary quality standards
- To make communities matter, by understanding neighbourhoods and their needs including everyone
- Measuring impact matters, by collecting social and economic data across the full range of our business and producing an annual Social Impact Report
- Do you want to work for a CQC rated 'Good' care company?
- Are you caring?
- Able to put people first?
- Looking for a new career or wanted to work for a Charity in the care sector?
- Are you flexible with a willingness to try a new way of working in domiciliary care?

**If you answered yes to all of these questions and you share our values, we want you**

We are currently recruiting Care Assistants to be a part of our growing team of friendly Care Assistants, experience is not essential to work with Five Lamps Home Care as full training is delivered in house.

We are able to provide shifts between 7am to 11pm Monday to Sunday. Shifts will be split between day and night shifts and you will be required to work one weekend in two.

**Job Purpose**: To provide high quality care to homecare service users that support the rights of customers to live the lives they choose as far as they are able:

- Assist customers within their home to meet their required needs. This may involve helping the customer to wash and dress, prepare meals and administer medication
- Duties may also include helping customers with their shopping or getting in and out of bed
- Provide an enhanced service that promotes interaction and strives to seek further wellbeing opportunities for the customer
- To ensure that all customers receive a consistently high quality level of service, appropriate with the standards required by Five Lamps
- Promote the rights of each customer and keep their wishes at the centre of their care and support.

**Who we are looking for**

We are looking for people who care regardless of qualifications or experience. Do you share the Five Lamps vision of:

- Seeing the possibilities to make a positive difference.
- Valuing and celebrating individuality and diversity.
- Supporting rights, needs, choices and dreams.
- Being responsible, sustainable and innovative in our work.

We will give you all the training and support you need, such as obtaining a qualification in health and social care and providing full in house training.

You will be supported by the organisation to make a difference by not only providing personal care to the people we support, but supporting them to take part in a wide range of activities, including shopping trips and social occasions as well as offering them choice to eradicate social isolation and increasing well being.

Please note that all of our positions require an Enhanced DBS check in relation to Children and Adults.

**Benefits**:

- £9.50 per hour
- £9.89 per hour for weekend work
- £14.25 per hour for bank holidays
- Paid travel time
- Mileage at 45p per mile

Hours: Shifts available from 7am to 11pm, Monday to Sunday

If you are interested in working with us and feel that you have the right values to make a difference then please apply.

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

COVID-19 considerations:
All Care Assistants are provided with Infection Control Training and full PPE

Work remotely
- No

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

Pay: £9.50 plus weekend/bank holiday enhancements

**Job Types**: Zero hours contract, Permanent

**Salary**: £9.50-£14.25 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)
- Certificate in Health & Social Care (preferred)

Shift availability:

- Day shift (preferred)
- Night shift (preferred)

Work Location: On the road

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