Care Assistant - Durham, United Kingdom - The Five Lamps Organisation
1 week ago
Description
Drivers are preferred as care is provided across Durham and surrounding areas
Five Lamps is proud of it's mission, vision and values
Mission
- To Transform Lives, Raise Aspirations and Remove Barriers to Social, Economic & Financial Inclusion
- Creating Possibilities: Improving Lives
- To make people matter, by releasing their potential and encouraging selfworth
- Performance matters, by achieving targets and meeting quality standards
- Quality matters, by assuring quality and achieving contemporary quality standards
- To make communities matter, by understanding neighbourhoods and their needs including everyone
- Measuring impact matters, by collecting social and economic data across the full range of our business and producing an annual Social Impact Report
- Do you want to work for a CQC rated 'Good' care company?
- Are you caring?
- Able to put people first?
- Looking for a new career or wanted to work for a Charity in the care sector?
- Are you flexible with a willingness to try a new way of working in domiciliary care?
If you answered yes to all of these questions and you share our values, we want you
We are currently recruiting Care Assistants to be a part of our growing team of friendly Care Assistants, experience is not essential to work with Five Lamps Home Care as full training is delivered in house.
Shifts will be split between day and night shifts and you will be required to work one weekend in two.
Job Purpose:
To provide high quality care to homecare service users that support the rights of customers to live the lives they choose as far as they are able:
- Assist customers within their home to meet their required needs. This may involve helping the customer to wash and dress, prepare meals and administer medication
- Duties may also include helping customers with their shopping or getting in and out of bed
- Provide an enhanced service that promotes interaction and strives to seek further wellbeing opportunities for the customer
- To ensure that all customers receive a consistently high quality level of service, appropriate with the standards required by Five Lamps
- Promote the rights of each customer and keep their wishes at the centre of their care and support.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for people who care regardless of qualifications or experience.
Do you share the Five Lamps vision of:
- Seeing the possibilities to make a positive difference.
- Valuing and celebrating individuality and diversity.
- Supporting rights, needs, choices and dreams.
- Being responsible, sustainable and innovative in our work.
We will give you all the training and support you need, such as obtaining a qualification in health and social care and providing full in house training.
You will be supported by the organisation to make a difference by not only providing personal care to the people we support, but supporting them to take part in a wide range of activities, including shopping trips and social occasions as well as offering them choice to eradicate social isolation and increasing well being.
Benefits:
- £10.10 per hour
- £14.25 per hour for bank holidays
- Paid travel time
- Mileage at 30p per mile
Hours:
Shifts available from 7am to 11pm, Friday to Suday
If you are interested in working with us and feel that you have the right values to make a difference then please apply.
Job Types:
Part-time, Contract, Permanent
COVID-19 considerations:
All Care Assistants are provided with Infection Control Training and full PPE
Work remotely
- No
Job Types:
Part-time, Permanent
Pay:
£ bank holiday enhancements
Job Types:
Part-time, Permanent
, Zero hours contract
Salary:
£10.10 per hour
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability
- Weekends only
Work Location:
On the road
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