Location: Quince Court in Sandy and Chamomile Gardens in Biggleswade.
Job Role:
Care is Central is currently looking to grow our dedicated team of Bank Care Support Workers, working in Independent Living Schemes around Central Bedfordshire.
As a carer, you will be providing support to residents in our seven independent living schemes across Central Bedfordshire. No two days will be the same with plenty to keep you engaged and motivated. There are day, night and weekend shifts available choose from and responsibilities will include:

• Preparing snacks and meals for residents
• Tidying the house and helping with basic housekeeping tasks
• Taking your client to appointments, shopping, and other social engagements
• Offering companionship – listening and talking with your client, you’ll be amazed by their stories!
• Supporting their dignity – personal care, bathing, dressing, etc.
• Administering medication to help keep your client in the best state of health
• Engaging with residents and their families to continuously develop care plans
• Being resilient, attentive and ensuring our residents are treated with the dignity and care they deserve

Requirements:
Previous experience required, minimum of a 1 year with safeguarding and medication knowledge. Outside of that, the ability to laugh, work well in a team, have good time management and genuine empathy towards people, you will need:

• To be eligible to work in the UK
• Medication administration experience
• Knowledge of safeguarding
• Have a good level of English

Full training will be provided, and you will be mentored by an experienced carer to ensure you are confident in your role. We will offer flexible shifts to suit your needs where possible, in a chosen location, although you will be expected to travel to other scheme locations too.
Reasons to work for us:
Because we are a quality provider we offer:

• Hourly rate of £12.50 per hour
• Free uniform
• Free DBS checks
• Sick pay
• Paid induction training, gain a recognised Care Certificate
• Opportunity to obtain NVQ Level 2 & 3 in Health & Social Care
• Holiday pay & pension
• Double pay Christmas day/Boxing day/New year’s day
• Paid update training

Because we recognise how hard you work, we also offer

• An incredible discount scheme on High St shops, restaurants and online shopping
• Peer to peer reward scheme for living our values
• Wellbeing and health support
• Genuine career development. Grow and develop as our new and exciting company does
• Leading industry training packages

About Care is Central
Our vision is to be the leading care provider for Central Bedfordshire. We are not just another care company that delivers its services to make money and push its staff to the limit. We believe in delivering the very best possible care to those that need it and the very best opportunities to our care support workers. Enabling you to develop your career and get more out of your care job than just a pay check.
We only recruit the most passionate people, not necessarily the most qualified or experienced but the ones that care the most, that want to make a difference and want to make the world a better place for the people that they support.
We truly support and value our care teams offering a wealth of benefits, training packages, fast career progression and well-being support. We know you can’t care to the best of your ability if you are not being properly supported yourself.
We have a variety of care support positions available. If you enjoy meeting people, caring for others and would like to work for a company that supports and celebrates our hard-working staff, then apply now.
Job Type: Zero hours contract
Pay: £12.50 per hour
Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• On-site parking
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Experience:

• care: 1 year (preferred)
• Medication administration: 1 year (preferred)
• Safeguarding: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Location:

• Sandy (required)

Work Location: In person