Care Assistant

**Care Assistant (Days)**
**Meadows Park - Louth**

Do you find your current role unfulfilling? Do you want to have stability in your life yet feel you have no control over your life?

Here at Tanglewood we pride ourselves on looking after our employees, we nurture, we have compassion, and we grow as a company and ensure our employees feel they are growing too

Working night shifts is a great way to sustain stability in your work and home life. It is such an important position and a perfect way to see care from a different perspective.

**We want you to come to us and stay with us long term and we show our appreciation with numerous perks You will join a family environment with supportive staff and management, a competitive hourly rate, your DBS paid for, paid breaks, enhancement overtime rate of £3 extra per hour (terms and conditions apply), and a joining bonus after probation completion**

A career in care offers you stability, training to develop yourself, the team and home. At Tanglewood we are expanding our homes and our teams. We are enthusiastic about promoting you as an individual, if you have specific career aspirations within care, we will advocate any training you need including NVQ Level 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on to work your way up.

Meadows Park are searching for that all important night care assistant to nurture and take care of our residents at a very vulnerable time of day. Having a patient manner to assist residents at this time is a very important and is central to the care team at Meadows Park.

As a Care assistant you will be carrying out several responsibilities and duties to keep you motivated, stimulated and content:

- Helping support residents with getting ready for the evening, whether that be relaxing them before they retire to bed, helping them get ready for bed or being comfort to them,
- Working with families to understand each residents needs, desires and purpose in their daily lives, they may have different routines during the evening and we want to be mindful of this,
- Checking on residents in a timely manner to ensure they are comfortable, their dignity is respected and they feel safe and secure during the night,
- Being the individual who supports the residents, keeping them company and keeping their purpose in life strong,
- Keeping the residents safe, respecting their individuality and their integrity.

This list is not exhaustive and there are many aspects to being a carer at Tanglewood which tie in with our company values: to be empathetic with the residents, remember they are just like us To be united as a team, innovative with your ideas and nurturing in nature and compassionate towards others.

You don’t need experience to begin your career with us, so do get in touch. We value our staff and if you want to make a difference for yourself and our residents then apply

Tanglewood have competitive rates of pay, stability in shift patterns and an abundance of benefits:

- Free tunic when you begin,
- Meals included on shift,
- Induction and initial training for the role you begin,
- Ongoing refresher training and staff development and unique training tailored to your career route,
- Time and a half on all bank holidays,
- Refer a friend scheme,
- DBS paid for
- £3 per hour extra for overtime (terms and conditions apply)
- Competitive hourly rate
- Joining bonus
- Paid breaks

**Salary**: £10.60 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift

**Experience**:

- Care home: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: MP