Care Assistant

We have an excellent career opportunity for the role of **Care Assistant** to join our team here at **Kirklands Care** based at our **Highfield House Care Home** in **Whitehaven.**

**Are you kind? Compassionate? A people person? Love making a difference in people's lives? Then we can offer you the perfect role where you will genuinely make a difference, everyday**

**Pay**: We have an excellent pay rate of £12 an hour.

**Contract**: We can offer you either days or nights, we have either part time or full time roles available.

**Shift patterns**:

- 7am to 7pm
- 7am to 1pm or
- 1pm to 7pm
- We also have night shifts if you’d prefer, which are 7pm to 7am. Please note you do NOT have to work a mix of days and night shifts.

**We choose to work for us?**
- WE CARE ABOUT OUR STAFF AND REALLY TAKE OUR TIME TO GET TO KNOW YOU.
- COMPANY PENSION
- PROVIDE 2 UNIFORMS
- EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH AWARDS
- 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS EVENT
- TRAINING PAID FOR
- POTENTIAL TO DEVELOP - DO YOU WANT TO
- YOU WILL BE LOOKING AFTER THE MOST WONDERFUL PEOPLE
- THIS IS SUCH A REWARDING ROLE
- ‘GOOD’ CQC RATING
- EXCELLENT MANAGEMENT WHO WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT YOU

**Who are we?**

Welcome to Highfield House - our nursing and care home located in the beautiful coastal town of Whitehaven. Our highly qualified, experienced and compassionate team are ready and waiting to welcome you to the newest addition to the Kirklands family.

As soon as you arrive at Highfield House, you’ll receive the warmest of welcomes. As the first facility in the Kirklands care group to also offer nursing care, you’ll quickly become part of a wonderful family of residents, and staff who can provide the support you need to live comfortably and in dignity with us.

Highfield House provides residential care for up to 67 people of mixed physical and cognitive ability, as well as nursing care for a range of needs, including Dementia, Parkinson’s disease and mental health issues.

We value our staff and will always seek to provide a happy work place. We know our jobs can get tough and together we will support each other through. We offer and support regular training and opportunity to develop and grow within the role.
- Proactive person who can use your own decision making skills.
- Willingness to learn and develop your skills
- Can do attitude and strong work ethic
- Able to work independently as well as part of a team
- Empathetic to people and kind
- Good communication skills
- A desire to genuinely help other people and make a difference
- Honesty and integrity
- Kind, caring and compassionate
- Hardworking/ motivated
- Resilient
- Team player
- Reliable
- Non-judgmental
- Team player
- Positive role model

**Key responsibilities**:

- To help the residents to lead as full a life as possible, to assist with activities for the residents, e.g. handicrafts, games, reading, etc.
- To help with serving of meals and assisting residents where necessary. Helping to clear away the dishes afterwards.
- To make drinks when required. Clear away and wash up afterwards.
- To report any change in residents condition to the manager.
- To report incidents to residents, staff or visitors to the Manager, who will record it in the accident record book and to complete an accident report form.
- To care for residents property and that belonging to the home as directed.
- To care for equipment and report any defects to the Manager.
- To accompany residents to activities outside the home where necessary.
- To help wash and dress residents when necessary.
- 1To help residents with their toilet requirements.
- To assist with any other duties if required.
- To clean up spillages as they occur using appropriate equipment supplied and as specified in the Control of Infection Policy.
- Being a really fun person who is reliable and a team player :)

If you have any questions or would like some further information on the role, please **'APPLY'**now and we can arrange a phone call at your earliest convenience.

**We can’t wait to hear from you.**

Be sure to also check out our Instagram and Facebook pages to see what activities we’ve been up to recently, by searching ‘Facebook - kirklandscare’

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

Pay: £12.00 per hour

Expected hours: 12 - 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking

Application question(s):

- What location are you based please?
- How many hours are you looking to work per week?
- Would you describe yourself as a kind and compassionate person?
- Do you require sponsorship to work in the UK? We do NOT offer this.

Work Location: In person