Please scroll down, To apply

Care Assistant

hiring now

ESSEX CARES LTD

2021-12-03 09:06:53

Job location London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Job type: fulltime

Job industry: Community & Sport

Job description

ECL provides care and support to thousands of people to live safely and independently within their own homes and local communities in South East England.

Our services support older people, adults with learning disabilities, adults receiving reablement services and people with sensory impairment.

We are looking for a dedicated Care Assistant to support vulnerable adults living in the community to achieve their desired outcomes, including maximising their health, wellbeing and independence, enhancing their quality of life.

The Role

Become a Care Assistant, support our customers in their own homes and join the largest reablement provider in Essex. Play a key part in maximising our customer's health, wellbeing, and independence to enhance their quality of life. In return for your commitment, you will be offered excellent competitive remuneration and working conditions. [NW-RC1]

It is essential for this role to work in an enabling way, coaching, demonstrating, promoting and encouraging independence. You'll possess a valid driving license and have your own car.

Benefits

  • £10 - £10.80 per hour including when travelling between customers including travel time plus 45p per mile (up to 10,000 miles p/a)
  • Competitive rate of pay in your local area
  • Double pay on bank holidays
  • Up to 24 days annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, rising with service
  • Full paid induction and shadow training
  • Ongoing training and career development
  • Free enhanced DBS check
  • Free uniform & PPE
  • Enhanced contributory pension scheme
  • Annual salary reviews and performance bonus
  • Healthcare support scheme
  • Refer a friend scheme of £1000

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide practical, physical, emotional and social support and coaching to customers to achieve their desired outcomes. Where required, this includes supporting customers with personal care tasks, such as eating, toileting and bathing, whilst ensuring dignity and respect are maintained at all times for customers who use our services.
  • Work flexibly and creatively with customers, within the scope of their support plan, to help them build and sustain their community support network and access community resources to optimise their independence and help reduce long term funded support requirements (ie. support Good Lives approach)
  • Promote and adhere to the workplace values of Essex Cares (See Aspire values below)
  • Ensure that customers have choice and control over the service/s they receive and the outcomes they wish to achieve.
  • Show commitment to the mental and physical wellbeing of our customers by supporting them within a variety of settings, including the customer's home and their local community, Essex Cares' Hub and Spoke buildings; and training and voluntary employment settings, including catering, hospitality, printing, packaging, administration.
  • Identifying appropriate equipment to support independent living. Ensuring that all support and services are provided to customers and are delivered using enabling techniques that enable customers to learn (or re-learn) and maintain skills.
  • Developing and maintaining good communication with customers, families and carers, including where required, providing support to families and carers to help achieve and maintain the customer's desired outcomes.
  • Have a clear understanding of professional boundaries and safe working practices and demonstrate these in the performance of the role.
  • Record customer progress against their desired individual outcomes and provide pro-active feedback to Trusted Assessors, so that customer reviews and service changes can be actioned in a timely and appropriate manner.
  • Developing and maintaining strong relationships and communication links with colleagues and other professionals, e.g. GPs, District Nurses, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers, Transport Providers, Schools, Colleges, as well as Voluntary and Third Sector organisations in order to support and care for our customers.
  • Alert management immediately to any incident or development that could have a significant impact on the customer or group of customers. This includes safeguarding the wellbeing and welfare of customers being supported.
  • Work responsibly within ECL's policies, procedures and guidelines including Health and Safety and to maintain confidentiality at all times.
  • Meet outcome based performance targets determined by the business and contribute to the identification and implementation of new and improved ways of delivering services to customers.
  • Support other services and geographic regions, as and when required.

Requirements

  • Hold a full valid driving license and have use of a personal vehicle for work purposes.
  • A caring and supportive individual who is passionate about providing high-level care and support to vulnerable people.
  • The ability to support people retain their dignity and respect their privacy when delivering personal care to them.
  • Good listening and communication skills, both written and verbal are essential, with experience in building positive working relationships with colleagues and customers.
  • Excellent organisation skills.
  • Previous experience in a similar environment supporting vulnerable people is desirable but not essential.
  • Can demonstrate an awareness of the needs of vulnerable people and the challenges they commonly face.
  • A team player but also able to work on own initiative and within professional boundaries.
  • Can demonstrate a willingness to work flexibly within a changing work environment.
  • Honest and open and not afraid to admit when you have made a mistake.
  • QCF units in health and social care or equivalent (such as NVQ) is desirable but not essential
  • A commitment to undertake further training and development as required.
  • Good standard of written and verbal English
  • Basic understanding of computers.
  • Ability to demonstrate, understand and apply our Aspire values.
  • Provide a high level of care and support to vulnerable people
  • Exceptional listening and communication skills
  • Possess an empathetic approach
  • Be willing to provide personal care
  • A proactive approach to work and be able to work on your own initiative
  • Be able to work flexibly depending on the needs of the work environment
  • Have a passion to make a positive difference in people's lives; being considerate and supportive is a must
  • Previous experience in the care industry is not essential as full training will be provided.

Contract: Full time, Part-time, evenings and weekends

Shifts: 7am - 2.30pm & 4pm - 11pm, including weekends, school hours shift patterns available

Travel will be required around North Essex as our service covers Colchester, Clacton on Sea, Harwich, Mersea and surrounding areas. Full driving licence and own vehicle are essential.

If you are a dedicated, well-organised individual with excellent communication skills, then we would like to hear from you. To apply, please send an email with a note of your work experience and a short note of why you are the right candidate.


Inform a friend!

Top