# Care Assistant

**Company**: Bupa
**Location**: Chelmsford
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £12.75 up to £13.75 per hour
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Care Assistant to join our team at The Lawns Care Home in Chelmsford. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing high-quality care and support to our residents.

The Lawns Care Home is a welcoming and well-equipped facility that provides a range of care services, including nursing, residential, convalescence, respite, and palliative care. Our home offers bright and homely interiors with ensuite bedrooms, large landscaped gardens, and a bright sun loggia.

As a Care Assistant, you will be at the heart of our organisation, providing person-centred care that supports independence and honours choice. You will be part of a team dedicated to delivering the highest standards of care, ensuring our residents live a life they truly love.

**Key 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 and legal requirements

**What we're looking for:**

- 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

- We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences

- Long service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays, and money

- Free meal on every shift

- Interest-free annual travel loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets

- We offer a range of Bupa pension plans

- Parental leave - We have schemes for adoption, birth parents, and co-parents

- Menopause Plan - Specifically designed to empower women to seek advice, choose their treatment, and take control of their health

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

## Skills

### Required
- communication skills
- interpersonal skills
- care planning

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

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