Health Care Assistant in Bournemouth

Location: Bournemouth
Salary: £200.00 per hour
Recruiter: Friends Of The Elderly
Job Hours: Full-time

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Job Title: Health Care Assistant 

Pay Rate:  £ - £

Location:  Bournemouth, BH7 7EE

Day and Nights available

Hours: 36 hours

Are you passionate about promoting wellbeing and helping people live well in later life?

Our The Retired Nurses National Home is looking for passionate and dedicated Care Assistants to join our team. We provide high quality care services for our residents, including residential and dementia care. Our focus is on promoting wellbeing and enhancing the lives of our residents by providing tailored care to meet their individual needs.

  • As a  Care Assistant , you will promote wellbeing and enhance the lives of our residents by keeping them safe.
  • By joining us as a  Care Assistant , you will deliver personalised care tailored to each individual.
  • Care Assistants  provide emotional support for our residents and residents’ family members.
  • Our  Care Assistants  strive for excellence in all they do.
  • Promoting independence, offering choice, and caring with respect is at the heart of all our  Care Assistants!
  • Apply now and step into the wonderful world of care!

    We recruit based on your values, which means  we only require you to be passionate about supporting our residents. We’ll provide you with the training and tools that you’ll need to excel in your career in care with us. And if you have experience in Care... well, that’s bonus!

    We also offer:

  • Group Pension Plan, with a 6% contribution from us
  • Access to a free and confidential Employee Assistance programme, offering advice, counselling, and support on life matters.
  • Retail discount schemes to make your salary go further.
  • Access to loans at affordable rates, saving directly from salary and advance pay already earnt.
  • Access to Unmind, an app for your mental health and wellbeing.
  • Health cash plans for you and your family, to help with everyday healthcare such as dental, optical and physiotherapy.
  • Paid breaks.
  • Monthly prize draw, with 3 prizes to be won.
  • Interest free travel loans and ride to work scheme.
  • Long service awards, that increase with length of service.
  • Refer a friend to work for us and you both receive a £200 bonus.
  • Free parking at our homes and day clubs.
  • Evening, weekend, and bank holiday enhancements to pay, as well as overtime premiums.
  • Uniforms are provided.
  • Free DBS checks
  • Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

    Friends of the Elderly strives to treat all staff equally and be a diverse and inclusive workplace, where everyone can be themselves and everyone accepts each other’s differences, a charity where everyone is equal but definitely not the same .

    We welcome applications from anyone who shares our values regardless of their age, gender reassignment. being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

    Safeguarding

    Keeping everyone safe - As one of the charity’s core values, keeping people safe is central to everything we do at Friends of the Elderly. All staff follow our Safeguarding Policy & Procedure and, if they see or suspect abuse, we expect staff report it straight away.

    Criminal record checks:

    As this role involves a regulated activity, successful applicants will undertake an enhanced DBS check, with barred lists check, and any offer of employment will be dependent on a satisfactory outcome. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar a person from working for us, this will depend on the circumstances and background of any record.


    About Friends Of The Elderly


    We aspire to a society where all older people have the opportunity to live fulfilled lives. To achieve this, we deliver services personalised to individual needs and integrated with local communities. We live by our values to promote wellbeing, strive for excellence, treat people with respect and keep everyone safe.

    We run care homes and community services in Bedfordshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey and Worcestershire. We work hard to make sure residents and clients live full lives, taking part in activities that are meaningful to them and having the opportunity to keep up old friendships and form new ones. We build communities around our services and invite people in to be part of them.

    “What I like about this place is you can do what you want to do. It’s a pleasure living here. The staff are excellent.”

    Through our charitable work, we provide support for older people affected by loneliness and grants for those living on a low income. We work with partners to increase our impact and to raise awareness about the issues that affect us as we get older. We fundraise so we can continue our work, which older people tell us makes an extraordinary difference to their lives.

    “Old friends dwindle and you begin to feel very isolated. To know that someone remembers you is very reassuring.”

    Our passionate staff and volunteers are the driving force behind our work to achieve our vision. We recruit people who are dedicated to supporting older people and who want to make a genuine difference.

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