Care Assistant - Nights

Location

Okehampton, Devon | United Kingdom

Job description

Does working nights, work for you?

We are looking a Night Care Assistant to join our friendly, welcoming team at Castleham Lodge in Okehampton.

What is typical night like as Care Assistant with Guinness?

When you are supporting people, no two nights are ever the same! You will be caring for our customers, who live in their own flat, you will be on hand to:

• Answer customers calls for support during the night.
• Assisting our customers with medication and delivering personal care
• Providing high quality, responsive and person-centred services that meet the needs of our customers ensuring they have a choice and control over their lives.
• This role is lone working, with support available via on-call if needed.

What do you need to be a Night Care Assistant?

• You need to be caring, respectful, and dedicated to improving the lives of our customers.
• You need to be able to work night shifts from 8pm to 8am, two nights a week.
• You should be comfortable providing personal care (washing, showering, toileting, etc).
• Ideally you will have some care experience for this role, but this is not essential as full training is given.

Why work for Guinness?

• Competitive salary from £23,023 to £23,656 per annum.
• Salary based on 40 hours, equivalent to £11.03 - £11.33 per hour .
• Permanent, contracted part time hours with extra hours often available.
• Helping to save for your future - up to 9% contribution towards your pension on a matched basis.
• Life assurance.
• £250 unlimited staff referral scheme
• Company sick pay after a qualifying period
• Free enhanced DBS
• Lifestyle benefits portal including cycle to work scheme and fantastic discounts at supermarkets and many other shops, on-line retailers & leisure activities.
• Fully paid induction training programme, RQF/NVQ qualifications and on-going training
• Employee Assistance Programme, plus more!

If you are looking for a rewarding role, we would love to hear from you, click APPLY now.

Please note: We are not currently offering sponsorship for this role.

About Us

The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for around 140,000 customers nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

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Salary

£11.03 - £11.33 per hour