Care Assistant - Nights

Job Title: Care Assistant

Location: Limegrove - East Horsley

Rate of Pay: £11.75 - £12.37 per hour

Job Purpose:

As a Care Assistant, you will play a key role in enabling our customers to lead as active and independent lives as possible by providing holistic and personal care. You will be responsible for delivering care plans, prioritizing tasks, ensuring health and safety standards are met, and identifying and reporting signs of poor practice or abuse. You will promote choice for our customers in their daily living by providing care that meets the Care Quality Commissions (CQC) fundamental standards and supports happy living for the years ahead.

We are looking for care assistants to join our amazing team, working either 2, 3 or 4 nights per week.

Key Accountabilities and Decision Making:

• Provide person-centred care and support as identified in the care plan, whilst promoting choice and enabling residents to maintain independence and dignity.
• Assist in keeping the location clean, safe and odour-free for residents, ensuring health and safety policies are adhered to.
• Maintain and complete accurate documentation of all care and support undertaken, recognising, documenting, and reporting any changes in the care plan, and participating in customer reviews as required.
• Enrich the wellbeing of residents by assisting in social activities.
• Undertake key worker duties, building relationships with residents, families, and professionals.

Knowledge Skills:

• Ability to read, understand and complete/contribute to care plans.
• Health and safety in the workplace.
• Manual handling procedures.
• Safeguarding vulnerable adults.
• Food hygiene.
• Mental Capacity Act.
• Understanding of confidentiality and data protection within a care setting.
• Commitment and passion to provide high-quality person-centered care.
• Strong interpersonal and empathy skills.
• Approachable attitude.
• Ability to work as part of a team and individually.
• Ability to prioritise and plan around customer needs.
• Creates an environment where customers feel able to participate and contribute ideas.

If you are passionate about providing high-quality care and support, then we would love to hear from you.

Please note all applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK. Anchor at this time does not provide tier 2 sponsorship.

Limegrove in East Horsley is home to well trained and helpful staff with rooms for up to 55 residents. At Anchor, we pride ourselves in providing 24-hour care and specialised services for elderly people, the beauty of our grounds, the quality of our catering and our engaging activities we deliver.

• We provide free transportation between Horsley station and Limegrove
• Person centred induction for staff
• Dementia friendly environment for our customers and positive working environment for our staffs

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated rewards website

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a member of Inclusive Employers, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant and HouseProud Pledge schemes.