Health Care Support Worker

Health Care Support Worker - Riverside

48hrs per week to include rotational shifts days, nights, and weekends
Refer a friend bonus
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ABOUT THE HOME

This is an excellent and exciting opportunity to join our Brand New Luxury 72 Bed Nursing Home, Riverside Place in Ware to work either full-time or part-time as a Care Assistant, where you will work part of a great team and be making a difference to ourresidents by providing excellent care standards.

Are you; Compassionate and caring? Able to give support to families? Ready for a job where you can feel proud about what you do? Compassion’s the only qualification you need

The home is a beautiful home providing the highest level of residential, nursing and dementia care for our elderly residents, with good public transport links to the home.

If that sounds like you, we think you’ll love working at Riverside Place.We’re part of the Caring Homes Group, which is one of the UK’s leading providers of residential, nursing and dementia care for the elderly.

With Caring Homes Group, you can expect not just an exceptional benefits package (including paid breaks, childcare vouchers and accredited training), but also the satisfaction of doing genuinely rewarding work. Love your job every day

An excellent and exciting opportunity to join our Riverside You will work part of a great team and be making a difference to our residents by providing excellent care standards, taking pride in treating our residents as individuals.

As a Health Care Support Worker at Caring Homes, you’ll help residents enjoy each day by making sure they get the quality care and support they deserve.Responsible for supporting our elderly residents with daily living, providing support, providing a rangeof clinical skills including blood pressure, weighing and urine and swab samples and supporting the Nurse with blood samples. This role is 48 hours per week and is on a rotational basis you must be available to work days, nights and weekends.

THE SKILLS WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Experience in Food and Fluid charts

Experience in taking urine samples and swabs

Taking patients’ blood pressure

Taking patients temperate and recording it

Experience in weighing patients

Experience in taking blood tests desirable but not essential

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE BENEFITS WE CAN OFFER YOU?

Within Caring Homes Group you can expect not just an exceptional and extensive benefits package as listed below, you will also get satisfaction of doing genuinely rewarding work.

Paid annual leave 28 days per year (based on hours / pro rata) inclusive of bank holidays
Full paid induction programme
Excellent on-going training from day one and throughout your career
Opportunity to achieve City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Care and City & Guilds Level 3 in Adult Care
Salary scales and progression with internal promotions available, we are a large organisation
Long service awards
Recognition program
Refer a friend bonus scheme (earn up to £1000)
Excellent apprenticeship scheme
Employee discount scheme including discounted reloadable cards and high street vouchers, e-vouchers, access instant savings on your mobile device, holiday discounts & days out with discounts up to 60% and cinema benefits with discounts up to 40%
Employee Assistance Program, confidential telephone counselling and legal advice 24 hours a day, 365 days a year & a Health & Wellbeing portal
We are a Wagestream employer, this enables you to keep track of your earnings, have instant access to 40% of wages already earned and access guidance to help with financial wellbeing.
Free or subsidised meals*

To Apply

In order to protect both our staff and our residents, unless there are wholly exceptional reasons (which we will consider on an individual basis), From 11 November 2021, anyone working or volunteering in one of our cares home will need to be fully vaccinatedagainst coronavirus (COVID-19) and will need to agree to continue to receive Covid-19 vaccinations as required and in accordance with public health guidance throughout their employment with us.