# Care Assistant

**Company**: Bupa
**Location**: Dartford
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £13.10 - £14.10 per hour
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Care Assistant to join our team at Broad Oak Manor Care Home in Dartford. As a Care Assistant, you will be at the heart of our organisation, providing person-centred care that supports independence and honours choice.

**Job Details:**

- Location: Broad Oak Manor Care Home, Arnolds Lane, Sutton-at-Hone, Dartford, Kent DA4 9HF

- Contract: Permanent - Full Time

- Hours: 44 hours per week, covering nights

- Salary: £13.10 - £14.10 per hour depending on experience

**About Us:** Broad Oak Manor is a beautiful Edwardian manor house set within a peaceful village, providing residential, nursing and short stay care, including palliative and convalescence care. The home is CQC registered to provide care for over and under 65 years.

**Responsibilities:**

- Support residents with a wide range of differing requirements from companionship to personal care.

- Observe and manage residents' behaviour with care and ensure to document and report any changes in accordance with the required legislation.

- Support residents' nutrition and hydration needs, encouraging and assisting them to eat and drink according to their care plan.

- Provide essential physical and mental stimulation through social and recreational activities, both in groups and individually.

- Maintain accurate care plans in line with regulatory & legal requirements.

**Requirements:**

- Motivation, positivity, and great interpersonal skills.

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

- Desirable: Previous experience in a care home environment or a Health and Social Care qualification.

**Benefits:**

- My Healthcare - Free access to 24/7 support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP appointments, physiotherapy and mental health support

- Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350

- Wagestream - Have early access to up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes

- 28 days holiday

- Sick pay scheme

- Long service rewards

- Free meal on every shift

- Interest-free annual travel loan

- Range of Bupa pension plans

- Parental leave schemes

- Menopause Plan

- Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK

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## Skills

### Required
- person-centred care
- communication skills
- interpersonal skills

### Nice to have
- previous experience in a care home environment
- Health and Social Care qualification

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