Job title: Senior Care Assistant
Location: Ardenlea Court Care Home, Solihull B91 2AF
Salary: £11.60 - £12.21
Contract: Permanent Full time 33/ 44 hours
Shift Pattern: 8am - 8pm / 8pm - 8am. Must be flexible to work between Monday - Sunday including alternate weekends
We make health happen
Here at Bupa we support those when they need it the most. Our care homes are dedicated to delivering person-centred care, supporting independence and honouring choice to help our residents live their best lives.
As a Senior Care Assistant, we understand how crucial your role is to our home. Not only driving a team of Care Assistants that deliver high quality, personal care to our residents, but also inspiring, developing, and nurturing them to be their best every day. You’ll be motivated, positive and with great interpersonal skills, and you enjoy working in a close-knit team. You’re pivotal in running a unit, working with the Nurse to aid with clinical duties for the home.We’ll train you on all aspects of our new digital care, which is transforming how we work, making things easier and letting you focus on clinical excellence and care for our residents. And as healthcare experts for over 75 years, we’re committed to continually training you in the social care developments you need to do your job, learning from some of the best people in the industry. It’s an exciting time to be with us.
You’ll help us make health happen by:
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. At Bupa, we have no shareholders. Our priority is our customers and you.
We believe that our healthcare should be accessible to all – for now and in the future. We do this by reinvesting our profits into better healthcare and letting our people have the freedom and support to have a purpose-driven career, whatever path they choose.
We know family can come from anywhere. It’s our privilege to care for over 7,000 residents across the UK – treating each and every person as if they were part of our family.
A caring nature makes all the difference. Everything our people do comes from the heart and has remarkable results. Care can be physically and emotionally demanding but that's what makes it so rewarding.
As a carer, it’s no secret that you’ll need to have the natural ability to be empathetic and kind natured. You’ll make residents your top priority and go the extra mile to put a smile on their face. Not only will the residents become part of your life, you’ll become part of theirs.
We never hold you back. Whatever your background, as long as you have a caring nature, you’ll be sure to flourish.
There’s no limit to how far you can go with ongoing support and opportunities.
Everyone who works as part of our teams gets access to learning and development programmes, and we encourage our people to undertake apprenticeships.
Our nurses can also apply for the Bupa Nurse Fellowship, joining a global community and accessing scholarships up to £10,000, mentoring programmes, webinars, lectures and events. Whatever role you play, with a culture that lets you be yourself, you’ll have a rewarding career as part of our Bupa family.
Each of our homes are filled with committed people who have a real passion for working with people and our residents. Striving to make a positive difference to each one of our residents, we help residents achieve things they never thought were possible.
Our #NeverTooLate campaign encourages colleagues to go the extra mile for residents. Teams have organised flying experiences for RAF veterans, transformed a care home into a live jazz venue, and even helped a resident cross a half marathon finish line.