Healthcare Assistant
As Healthcare Assistant at Nellsar Care Homes, you will be part of an exceptionally supportive team providing outstanding physical, emotional, and social assistance to the people living at Sonya Lodge Care Home.

Location: Sonya Lodge Care Home, 10 High Road, Dartford DA2 7EG
Contracted hours: 40 hours (mixed days and nights)
Hourly rate of pay: £13

The perfect role for you
Being a caring heart, with a passion for making people happy, you will thrive on bringing a smile to our residents' faces, whilst supporting their physical and mental wellbeing. Being kind, compassionate and respecting people's personal choice, dignity and privacy, we would be honoured to welcome you to our team.

Nellsar is committed to developing and training our staff to ensure high quality care is provided to our residents. The successful candidate will receive on-going training and development with opportunities for progression within the Company, including apprenticeships for new and existing staff.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring that residents are at the heart of care delivery and their wishes and preferences are taken into consideration to enhance their wellbeing.
• Ensuring care plans, assessments and risk assessments and other care documentation in place to support residents are followed accordingly.
• Being responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of residents.
• Maintaining the residents' independence, privacy, and dignity always.
• Maintaining accurate and up to date records of all care given, onto our software package (handheld devices).
• Ensuring Infection Control procedures are always adhered to.

What we offer

• Competitive pay and paid training hours
• Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
• Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
• 'Refer a Friend' payments of up to £1000
• Enhanced DBS paid for by the company
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
• The opportunity to help your team develop
• Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline
• Nellsar work uniforms

Why Choose Us?
Nellsar has been a family-run company since 1988, providing exceptional care for residents across our group of 13 Care Homes in Kent, Surrey, and Essex. Our values focus on the individual, creating an inclusive environment with residents and our teams at the heart of what we do every day.

To apply or find out more, please contact Sonya Lodge Care Home at 01322 289 768 or Apply through our website.

Nellsar is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.