Care Assistant

Nursing Home - Care Assistant

Salary: £13.85 per hour plus enhanced overtime rates.

This role also attracts a Welcome Bonus of up to £350.

Location: Residential care home for older people, based in Newcastle.

Hours: Full and part time roles available.

Please note: We currently do not offer international visa sponsorship.

The role

We are currently looking to recruit carers who share our passion for making a difference in the lives of others. We are recruiting into both day shift and night shift roles.

St Catherine’s Nursing Home, proudly part of St Cuthbert’s Care, has recently achieved the prestigious Gold Standard Framework, highlighting our commitment to excellence in person-centred care. Our mission is to ensure that our residents continue to live life to the fullest, with dignity, respect, and joy.

Experience is not always necessary as we provide comprehensive training to all our staff. What we value most is a genuine interest in helping people, along with a kind and caring nature.

If you’re compassionate, dedicated and looking to join a team that truly values its residents and team members, we’d love to hear from you.

Your duties will include:

• Provide personal care and support to residents, including assisting people to the toilet and to bathe, in accordance with each individual care plan, ensuring privacy and dignity are maintained at all times
• Assist and serve residents at every meal, snack and drink time, promoting choice and ensuring individual needs are met
• Be aware of residents’ particular interests, likes and dislikes and engage with residents at every opportunity, including planned events, by actively listening and talking about each person’s interests and introducing wider topics where relevant. This may include prompting and assisting with daily activities that support physical and mental stimulation. This will also include assisting and working alongside our home’s well-being co-ordinators.
• Support and encourage each resident to practice and follow their own religion and spiritual beliefs.
• Accompany residents to medical appointments, hospital, social events and outings.
• Support the home’s housekeepers to maintain high standards of cleanliness and tidiness throughout the home at all time. This may include helping to clean specific areas following unintended accidents and spillages.
• Be directed to support with highly personalised and compassionate end of life care
• Respond to the home’s nurse-call system in a timely manner and in line with the home’s process

Why join St Cuthbert’s Care?

St Cuthbert’s Care is a values-based, registered social care charity, committed to enabling people to reach their personal potential.

The charity’s areas of work include nursing homes for older people, children in care and services for people with disabilities.

We are proud to be the first regional charity in the North East, delivering adult social care as part of our work, to be accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.

Further information on our work can be found in our Annual Review.

We offer our staff a range of additional benefits including:

• Christmas bank holidays paid at double time
• 27 days annual leave, including a day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave
• Enhanced company sick pay scheme
• Enhanced employer pension contributions
• Savings scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Tech scheme
• Staff counselling service
• Blue Light discount
• Charity Workers’ discount
• Free life assurance
• On demand pay
• Earn money and rewards with the Care Friends App
• Real Living Wage Employer (minimum £13.45 per hour)
• Opportunities for training and professional development
• Sleep in allowance of £80 (role dependant)

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £13.85 per hour

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Application question(s):

• Do you have the right to work in the United Kingdom?

Work Location: In person