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Job Vacancy: Twilight Healthcare Assistant
Location: The Old Downs Care Home, Castle Hill, Hartley DA3 7BH
Contracted hours: Part-time 16 hours, 7.30pm – 11.30pm – work flexibility in accordance with your availability and the service requirements
(Hourly) rate of pay: £11.50
Why choose us?
As Twilight Healthcare Assistant, you will enjoy being part of an exceptionally supportive team, welcoming you into providing outstanding physical, emotional, and social assistance to the people living at The Old Downs.
The Old Downs Residential Care Centre is part of Nellsar, a family-owned company with 35 years of exceptional person-centred care experience, comprising of 13 nursing and residential care homes covering Kent, Essex and Surrey.
The perfect role for you
Having a caring heart, with a passion for making people happy, you will thrive on bringing a smile on our residents’ face, whilst supporting their physical and mental wellbeing. Being a kind, compassionate person who respects people’s personal choice, dignity and privacy, we would be honoured to welcome you in our team.
You will have the opportunity to excelwhilst:
- Delivering the highest level of person-centred care
- Maintaining the residents’ safety and wellbeing
- Supporting residents to remain as active and independent as possible
- Respecting the residents’ rights of choice, privacy and dignity
- Assisting residents with personal care and mobility requirements
- Supporting the residents’ with an excellent mealtime experience
- Maintaining accurate and up to date care records
- Providing physical and mental stimulation for our residents by taking part in social and recreational activities, on a one-to-one and group basis.
For more information on the role and to see the job description, please visit – The Old Downs Residential Care Home Jobs | Nellsar Healthcare Recruitment
You will bring to the team:
- Dedication and commitment to making a difference to others’ lives
- Passion for enhancing the service we provide
- Experience of working in a similar environment
- An empathetic nature and a strong ability to communicate effectively
- Active listener skills, professional telephone etiquette and good written communication skills
- Confidence to use authorised handheld devices (smartphones) to record your activity
- Excellent team-work skills and ability to work independently
What we offer in return to your dedication:
- Competitive pay and paid training hours
- Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
- Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
- ‘Refer a Friend’ payments of up to £1000
- Enhanced DBS paid for the company on completion of six months employment
- Comprehensive induction programme and quality training throughout employment
- Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
- 5.6 weeks annual leave
- Working in a supportive team
- The opportunity to help your team develop
- Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline
- Nellsar work uniforms
If you would like to obtain more details about this exciting role, please contact The Old Downs Residential Care Centre at: 01474 702146
It’s our mission at Nellsar to ensure that people live life to the full
We are passionate about making every day count and bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their visitors and the team supporting them.
Nellsar is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.
You will be an important member of the Old Downs Residential Care Centre family, who will support you to reach your goals and feel accomplished by enhancing other people’s quality of life.
Thank you for considering the possibility to join the Nellsar family, we are looking forward to welcoming you!
