Care Assistant - Nights

What we offer

• Free uniform
• Free Employee Assistance Programme
• Free Healthcare Cashback Plan
• Free Onsite Parking
• Free Blue Light Card (Discounted Shopping)
• Refer a Friend Incentive worth £100
• Free online and face to face training

About us

Willowdale Residential Home is situated on the crest of a hill, in a quiet, well-established village called Buckley, near Mold in Flintshire which is surrounded by the countryside. The home is registered as a 26-bed residential home, offering long term residential care, respite, day care and short-term stays caring for people on a residential basis as well as for people with milder forms of dementia.

We are currently looking for a Care Assistant – Nights with a natural caring nature to join our team.

Our aim at Willowdale Residential Home is to provide the highest standard of care in a relaxed, friendly environment with a friendly and empathetic approach. We ensure that residents are able to still enjoy the freedom and lifestyle of their choice, whilst receiving care that is appropriate to their needs built on dignity and respect and you will play a key part in this:

What you will be doing: -

• To assist with care and support of the Residents under the supervision of a senior in charge.
• To encourage and help promote the quality of life according to needs as identified in a resident’s personal care plan.
• Assist service users with personal care tasks, such as washing, dressing, and eating.
• Assist in the safe lifting, transferring, repositioning and movement of service users.

What you will bring:

• A naturally caring approach and a passion for helping people maintain their dignity, independence, and choice.
• A respectful, courteous, and compassionate nature and belief in giving your personal best at all times.
• Good communication skills to effectively interact with residents and fellow colleagues.
• Reliability and flexibility to support the nature of the business.



Desired Qualifications

You will have a minimum level 2 heath care diploma (or similar) or have at least 1 year experience as a senior carer or care assistant.

Social Care Wales

Please note that Willowdale Residential Home comply with the Social Care Wales Regulations and Rules 2022 and therefore, if you are working as an adult care worker and provide care, you are required to ensure that you are / are required to register with Social Care Wales (SCW), maintain your registration and hold a valid registration number.

Successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

Our organisation is committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications are received.

We reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the closing date indicated should we feel we have received sufficient applications.

As we often have many applicants for jobs, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are short-listed for interview. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been short-listed for interview on this occasion.