Care Assistant

Job description

Job responsibilities

Sandwell Council is looking for two caring and dedicated individuals to join our team asCare Assistants. This is your chance to empower individuals in our community to live independently, with dignity and purpose, while ensuring their safety and wellbeing.

About the Role:

Fountain Court is a 16 bedded residential unit for people with dementia. The role includes providing person centred care, to meet the individual needs of the service users. To support the service users with their everyday living skills and participate in activities. The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of the needs of older people, with dementia, effective communication skills and be able to produce clear and accurate records.

Requirements:

Provide an excellent standard of care to all service users, so that they lead as fulfilling life a possible by fostering opportunities that place their right to privacy, dignity choice and independence at the forefront of their care. Enable service users to engage in and develop interests and maintain wellbeing and be part of the community.

An enhanced DBS check will be required for this role.

Working Hours

28 hours per week and 21hrs per week

You will be required to work a mixture of early, late shifts. (7.30am 3.00pm and 2.30pm 10.00pm) These will also include working weekends and bank holidays on a rota pattern.

What We Offer

• Flexible working hours to support a healthy work-life balance.
• Access to local government pension scheme
• Exclusive Employee Benefit Retail Discount Generous Annual leave entitlement

For an informal discussion, please contactSharon_Billinge@sandwell.gov.uk.

We reserve the right to close vacancies prior to their advertised date if we receive a large number of applications. Therefore, you are strongly advised to complete and return your application as soon as possible.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with adults with a disability or older people

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

Address

Fountain Court

Millpool Way

Smethwick

West Midlands

B66 4HW

Employer's website

https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)