Care Assistant Job, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Location: Tunbridge Wells - Kent
Rate: £ 13.5 to £ 14.5 K
Job Status: Permanent
My client is currently looking to recruit 2 Care Assistants for their nursing home in Tunbridge Wells.
You will be required to:
- Communicate professionally and warmly with all visitors to the home including family and friends.
- Act as a key worker to a number of residents, providing friendship and supporting their needs.
- Take part in social activities both within and externally to the home.
- When required, accompany residents to appointments outside the home.
- Assist residents with personal hygiene needs.
- Work as part of a team.
- Attend training as required.
Applicants will need to have recent experience of working with elderly clients - preferably in a nursing or residential home. An NVQ in care would be an advantage but not essential.
Subject to CRB and reference checks.
About this company
Kent Social Care Professionals is Kent's specialist recruitment agency offering a unique service to both employers and candidates in the Social Care sector. We specialise in the supply of qualified and unqualified social care staff to the statutory, voluntary and private sector for temporary and permanent work assignments for social care professions.
KentSCP specialise in particular in the areas of Learning Disabilities, Supported Housing, Children & Families and Young People.
We recognise that there is a need for an agency that clearly understands the diverse support needs of the vulnerable people in these niche specialties.
Our Activities support social care as a profession, by offering a wider range of attractive and career-building opportunities to those already qualified by training and experience. We offer advice and guidance as to how candidates can continue to progress through training. We also welcome new entrants, who are tempted to find a way into a career in social care, by suggesting voluntary work with a variety of service providers, as a way to learn more (including about themselves!) and build up a track record of essential experience
Why Work Through us?
Because we can offer you work that will fit in with your life: days, nights, weekends, work to fit in with your other commitments.
We offer you pay that rewards you for your skills, paid weekly direct into your account.
We find jobs that are suited to you and your experience. We will not push you to take on something you are not comfortable with.
You will alays receive first class service from our recruitment consultants.
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