Care Assistant

**Job Title: Health Care Assistant - Days**

**Pay Rates: £11.00 per hour**

**Location: Bradbury Court, Malvern Homes**

**Availability: Full time, part time & bank**

**Experience Required: 1 year care home experience**

Are you passionate about promoting wellbeing and helping people live well in later life?

With a person-focused approach to care, Davenham, Bradbury Court and Perrins House are picturesque homes situated in beautiful grounds in Malvern. We are looking for passionate and dedicated Care Assistants to join our team. We provide high quality care services for our residents, including residential and dementia care. Our focus is on promoting wellbeing and enhancing the lives of our residents by providing tailored care to meet their individual needs.
- As a **Care Assistant**, you will promote wellbeing and enhance the lives of our residents by keeping them safe.
- By joining us as a **Care Assistant**, you will deliver personalised care tailored to each individual.
- **Care Assistants **provide emotional support for our residents and residents’ family members.
- Our **Care Assistants** strive for excellence in all they do.
- Promoting independence, offering choice, and caring with respect is at the heart of all our **Care Assistants**.
- **Complete personal care**, including toileting, bathing, showering, catheter/stoma care, bed changing and more dependant on the needs of the service user, whilst always maintaining their dignity.

**We also offer**:

- Group Pension Plan, with a 6% contribution from us
- Access to a free and confidential Employee Assistance programme, offering advice, counselling, and support on life matters.
- Retail discount schemes to make your salary go further.
- Access to loans at affordable rates, saving directly from salary and advance pay already earnt.
- Access to Unmind, an app for your mental health and wellbeing.
- Health cash plans for you and your family, to help with everyday healthcare such as dental, optical and physiotherapy.
- Monthly prize draw, with 3 prizes to be won.
- Interest free travel loans and ride to work scheme.
- Long service awards, that increase with length of service.
- Refer a friend to work for us and you both receive a £200 bonus.
- Free parking at our homes and day clubs.
- Free DBS checks

**Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion**

Friends of the Elderly strives to treat all staff equally and be a diverse and inclusive workplace, where everyone can be themselves and everyone accepts each other’s differences. A charity where everyone is equal but definitely not the same

Our ambition is to ensure equality and celebrate diversity, all working together to create an inclusive workplace, which attracts and retains the best people. People that care and can make a difference.

We value all our staff, service users, volunteers and contractors and strive to respect everyone as individuals, understand their perspectives, and provide a supported workplace so that everyone can thrive.

We are committed to listening, learning, and improving our workplace and we ask all our staff to make a personal commitment to educate themselves; and engage in conversations with colleagues, so that we can all learn and share our stories and treat everyone equally.

We encourage everyone to call out any actions or behaviours not consistent with our values, and champion the rights of all our staff.

**Safeguarding**

Keeping everyone safe - As one of the charity’s core values, keeping people safe is central to everything we do at Friends of the Elderly. All staff follow our Safeguarding Policy & Procedure and, if they see or suspect abuse, we expect staff report it straight away.

**Criminal record checks**:
As this role involves a regulated activity, successful applicants will undertake an enhanced DBS check, with barred lists check, and any offer of employment will be dependent on a satisfactory outcome. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar a person from working for us, this will depend on the circumstances and background of any record.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

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

**Salary**: From £11.00 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift

**Experience**:

- Care home: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 417