Care Assistant

**Grade C £12.65 - £13.05 per hour plus 7% enhancement for unsociable hours.**

**Contract**:Part-time, permanent.**

**The Role**

**Looking for the next step in your career?**

Then Bolton Council bed-based services are the place for you
We have an exciting opportunity for you to become part of our dynamic, supportive service. We are looking for dedicated, compassionate Care Assistants to join our team, in permanent posts. You may have opportunities to work across our Bolton sites; this can be discussed at interview.

**What do we do?**

We provide 24-hour residential care for people who require continuation of care and rehabilitation, or assessment of future care needs. Our aim is to support residents to regain as much independence as possible, by involving residents with their care needs, to return home or move onto alternative care arrangements. We recognise the skills and experience individuals can bring and promote joint working, with both NHS and Local Authority staff working on-site.

**What does the role involve?**

Please read the job description and person specification for these duties.

**What will your working week look like?**

Please see attached rota examples.

Please note this is a set rolling rota, for permanent posts. There will be opportunities to pick up additional shifts.

**About You**

You must be experienced in providing care, or be willing to learn, and be able to demonstrate kindness and compassion when working with service users.

You should be able to use a computer as you will be required to use computer-based information systems.

Unfortunately, at this time Bolton Council is not able to offer sponsorship for these positions, therefore you must have Right to Work in the UK.

**About Us**

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

**Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.
Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.