Casual Care Assistant

The Vacancy

Join our dedicated Care Team at Homemead Care Home, where compassion and community are at the heart of everything we do. As a Casual Care Assistant, you’ll be part of an incredible team that works tirelessly to keep our residents engaged, active, and enjoying life.

Whether you're supporting residents with their personal care and hygiene needs or helping maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the home, your contribution will make a meaningful difference.

Standard shifts are 12 hours and 20 minutes, days and waking nights.

About us

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a forward-thinking and innovative charitable provider of housing, care, and bespoke services exclusively for older people in London. We have 90 years’ experience of retirement home design and living in London. We are very proud of the ‘family’ feel of our Care Homes.

You will work alongside an amazing team that care passionately about our residents. We work hard to keep our residents engaged, active and enjoying their lives. Whether you would like to support our residents directly with their physical care and personal hygiene needs or instead help us in maintaining high levels of cleanliness across our homes, you can make a real contribution.

About you

You will need:

• Good communication skills
• Basic literacy and numeracy skills
• To be compassionate and patient
• Ideally some experience in a caring industry, for example hospitality or schools
• To pass our DBS check or be on the DBS Update Service

Even better if you have previous experience of a care environment, providing personal care or knowledge of dementia.

We invest in our colleagues

The [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes:

• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives.

All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Group & it’s subsidiary brands.

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Documents

• Care Assistant - Job Description - Download
• The [Employer hidden] Way Culture Handbook - Download

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