Domiciliary Care Assistant

Domiciliary Care Assistant

**Job Description**:
**Domiciliary Care Assistant**

**Richmond Village Witney, Coral Springs Way, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 5DG**

**£12.45**

**Contract**:Permanent contract part-time/ fulltime hours available.**

**Shift Pattern: 2x 24 hours**
**6/12 hour shifts including every other weekend**

**7am - 1pm or 1pm - 7pm (6hrs shift)**

**7am - 7pm (12 hr shift)**

**Nightshift are 7pm until 7am with a 10% enhancement**

We are looking for Domiciliary Care Assistant's to join our team at Richmond Village Add Village Location. As a Domiciliary Care Assistant, you will provide care and support to our residents who live in our serviced apartments on site. So the great news is there is no travel as all your residents are in one place.

We can offer full and part time opportunities and a range of shifts (insert shift times) As a Domiciliary Care Assistant, you'll help residents to truly get the most out of life and in return we'll support you to get the most out of your career.

You can count on a thorough induction when you start to help you settle into your new role.

If you are passionate about caring for others, respecting people's choices and always putting their safety and welfare first and are a great listener with a positive outlook, then we want to hear from you.

**What the role entails**:
Whilst no two days will be the same in this role, as we adapt to the needs of our residents across the village. It's likely you'll be covering a variety of duties across our onsite apartments such as:

- Assisting residents with personal care duties
- Supporting at mealtimes where appropriate
- Helping to promote mental and physical activity of residents through hobbies, interests or activities within the village
- Answering emergency calls on site when care alert system is activated
- Working with the Domiciliary Care Manager and other external professionals such as GPs, Chiropodists, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists where appropriate

**Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role**:
Ideally, you'll have experience of working in a care/dementia setting or you may have a Level 3 in Health & Social Care (or equivalent), however, this isn't essential as full training will be provided.

**Benefits**

You will receive the following benefits and more:

- My Healthcare - Quick, easy access to support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP, physiotherapy, and mental health support - all available from one phone number 24/7.
- Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350
- We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences
- Free meal with every shift
- Holidays - 20 days + Bank Holidays
- Long Service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money
- Interest
- free annual travel Loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets.
- Wagestream - Have early access up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes.
- We offer a range of Bupa pension plans - Find out more on our career site
- Parental Leave - We have schemes for adoption, birth parents and co parents - Find out more on our career site
- Menopause Plan - Specifically designed to empower women to seek advice, choose their treatment and take control of their health.
- Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK
- Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

**Why Choose Bupa?**

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.


Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
Care Home - Care support
Locations:
Richmond Witney Village

Health & wellbeing programme, Company pension, Financial planning services, Paid volunteer time, Referral programme, Private dental insurance, Employee mentoring programme, Private medical insurance, Gym membership, Additional leave, Discounted or free food, Cycle to work scheme, Free flu jabs