Care and Support Worker

A permanent opportunity to join a professional team in Winscombe, Somerset to provide quality homecare care and support within one high end luxury village setting.

Working within residents' within the customers' homes, using a tailored care packages to meet their individual needs. This can range from 15 minutes per week to more frequent daily help. Whatever the needs of the resident, the priority is to ensure they maintain control, choice and dignity at all times.

This is a seven day, twenty four hour service. Care and support workers will work on the Care and Support rota, tailored to hours of work and resident needs. There is a requirement to work weekends. You will be working 37.5 hours per week with a pay rate of £9.41 per hour weekdays and weekends £12.48 per hour.

What is important to the residents you will be supporting:

• It's good to have someone to talk to
• They spot when things are needed without the need to be prompted
• Must love people
• Foresight and initiative
• Good listening skills are crucial
• Being sensitive to how a resident is feeling

You must have:

• Previous experience in a care role working in a nursing home, hospital, extra care housing or homecare setting
• Worked with older people and/or people with disabilities
• Have an understanding of the needs of people with dementia
• Have the ability to attend to personal care needs
• Achieved an advanced Diploma or NVQ level 2 in Care (or equivalent)
• Experience of working with a rostering/rota system
• Completent using computers, email and systems for care plans and online risk assessments

My customer is offering a fantastic benefits package, which includes:

• 23 days holiday, plus bank holidays (Pro-rata)
• An annual salary review
• Contributory pension scheme upto 7.5%
• Life assurance at 4 x salary
• Subsidised restaurant, serving high quality food
• Extensive induction programme and training opportunities
• Occupational sick pay after 12 months service
• Free parking
• Summer and Winter staff celebrations

This really is an excellent opportunity to work for an organisation who want you to build your career with an employer who offers a luxury setting for their customers and looks after their staff.

Full job description and benefits package can be provided upon application.

#winscombe #somerset #bristol #westonsupermare #sandford

*Flexible hours, Competitive rate of pay, FREE training and DBS*

We are recruiting for experienced Healthcare assistants across Bristol and surrounding areas!

In this role you would be supporting the elderly and adults with dementia within different nursing home settings.

Our clients nursing homes are large luxury nursing homes providing the highest possible level of care, as an agency worker you will go into different services to support permanent staff with general care tasks such as:

-Medication administration
-Personal care
-Manual handling
-Meal times
-Social activities
-Record keeping and more!

This would be a great opportunity for someone looking to gain more experience within nursing settings, or anyone looking for flexible hours!

We can offer hours from 1 shift a week to full time hours, you choose the hours you want to do!

Our requirements of an agency worker are:

-A minimum of 6 months experience of working within a nursing home
-Driver and willing to travel to different locations across Bristol (Preferred)

At Retain healthcare we give our employees many benefits:

-FREE DBS, TRAINING AND UNIFORM
-Weekly pay, enhanced weekends, nights and bank holiday pay
-On going training with our own internal trainers
-Support you with qualifications and career progression
-24/7 on call team
-Block bookings and last minute shifts
-On going supervisions and support from co-ordinators

As well as being one of the leading healthcare agencies across the southwest, we are also a CQC registered company providing care for vulnerable people in the community. We support local hospitals with discharges into our homecare, if you are interested in the homecare work feel free to call us for more info.

For more information or to book and immediate interview please call us on 03303334443!

Clinical Carer

At Retain Healthcare we are seeking a team of clinical carers, the ideal person for the role would be caring, compassionate, experienced within the care sector. You will be covering 12 hour days on an ongoing basis to support an individual within their own home.

You will need to be in commutable distance to Malmesbury, Hullavington or Badminton as this client lives in a remote location.

This role is to assist with the daily living of one client within their own home. You could be offering companionship right through to providing support for clinical needs, (full training provided).

We are passionate about making the right match for our staff and customers alike, quality we are seeking include; being kind, caring and compassionate, having excellent communication skills, passionate about promoting independence and reabling skills where appropriate. As a Clinical Carer, you will be supporting the everyday needs of our customers with true person focused care - (full training and support is of course provided).

At Retain Healthcare we consider ourselves to be a fresh innovative provider, covering the South West, with recruitment experts who have the knowledge and background to offer you the most up to date and comprehensive training in both social care and clinical care skills; Leading you into a career you can be proud of and rewarded for.

Working for Retain you will receive many benefits including:

• Weekly Pay
• Company Pension Scheme
• Free DBS during January 2021
• First Uniform Free
• Paid Holidays
• Local training and your own career development pathway
• Retain Rewards - local discounts
• Guaranteed Hours available
• Recommend a friend bonus of up to £300 per introduction

Working as part of #TeamRetain you will be an integral part of our care team, you will be supporting our customer in their own home and ensuring they are able to enjoy a good quality of life whilst supporting good health and well being. With the ethos to reable skills where appropriate. We pride ourselves on supporting you in a way you can perform the duties required, and that you feel supported and empowered to deliver the best quality care for that individual.

We will provide you with full training, followed by shadow shifts arranged with an experienced carer, who will help you adjust to your new role, and we have ongoing telephone support available for when you are out caring for our customers. The quality of this service can only be delivered by people like you who want to make a difference to the individuals we support in the safety of their own homes.

We will continue to develop your skills through training and development to meet the needs of the customer.

As an company our ethos is to Retaining Quality, Retaining Independence, Retaining Staff and Retaining Skills. #teamretain Together Everyone Achieves More.

This role may also be referred to as: Homecarer, Homecare Assistant, Home Carer, Carer, Care Assistant, HCA, Healthcare Assistant, Care Giver, Community Support Worker

Would you like to progress your career in a challenging and rewarding role? OR are you looking for a change and for a role where you are really making a difference?

At Retain healthcare we are looking for caring and compassionate individuals to join our homecare team at various locations across Gloucestershire including: Gloucester, Cheltenham, Stroud and across the Forest of Dean.

In this role you will be out and about in your community supporting long term clients or recent hospital discharges.

The role of a Home carer will include providing support for our clients through: personal care, preparing meals, medication support, mobility support, following care plans and providing companionship.

Shift times: 7.00-14.00 / 16.00-22.00

Our requirements:

-To be a home carer no experience is required but you will need to be a driver and have access to a vehicle!
-You will also be a people person and enjoy helping others.

Benefits or working with us:

-Flexible hours - part time or full time hours available
-FREE induction training, uniform ad DBS checks
-Weekly pay, enhanced weekends, nights and bank holiday pay
-On going training with our own internal trainers
-Support you with qualifications and career progression
-24/7 on call team

About us

Retain Healthcare is a customer led organisation where everyone's values, wishes, feedback and recommendations are taken into account and embedded within service delivery.

Our key foundation is based on the below 4 R's:

• Retain - Quality
• Retain - Independence
• Retain - Skills
• Retain - Staff

For more information please call us on 03303334443!