# Care Assistant

**Company**: Bupa
**Location**: Northampton
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £13.10 per hour
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join our care team at Richmond Village Northampton and make a real difference to residents' lives by providing high-quality, person-centred care in a supportive and rewarding environment.

We offer a thorough induction and ongoing training and development, including access to apprenticeships and our online portal with various resources for personal development.

**Responsibilities:**

- Assisting residents with a high standard of clinical, social, and emotional care, recognising and meeting their specific needs

- Answering emergency bells or calls from residents, assessing situations, dealing with requests for help, and summoning senior care staff when necessary

- Helping residents with daily living activities such as meal preparation, washing, dressing, toileting, and personal hygiene as documented in their care plan

- Supporting residents with mobility problems, including transferring them using appropriate equipment, and helping with the use and care of aids and personal equipment

- Providing companionship and supporting residents with a wide range of differing requirements

- Being part of a team that monitors residents and reports changes

- Communicating with residents' families, friends, and other healthcare professionals

- Completing a DBS check as part of the recruitment process (cost covered by Bupa)

**Benefits:**

- My Healthcare: quick access to support, advice, and treatment for various health-related issues

- Annual allowance for Bupa healthcare products (approximately £350)

- Paid breaks and a free meal with every shift

- 20 days of holiday plus bank holidays

- Long Service rewards, including ecards, extra holidays, and money

- Interest-free annual travel loan for public transport season tickets

- Wagestream: early access to up to 40% of earned wages

- Range of Bupa pension plans

- Parental Leave schemes

- Menopause Plan for women's health support

- Access to discounts at gyms and fitness facilities across the UK

- Sick pay scheme in addition to statutory sick pay

**Shift Patterns:**

- 12-hour shifts: 7:00 am - 7:00 pm

- 6-hour shifts: 7:00 am - 1:00 pm and 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm

- Weekend working required on a rotating rota

## Skills

### Required
- person-centred care
- clinical care
- emotional support
- communication skills
- mobility assistance

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