Health Care Assistant – Taunton – Flexible Workforce Team

Join Somerset Care’s Flexible Workforce Team as a Bank Health Care Assistant. Are you a compassionate individual looking for a flexible role that works around your lifestyle? Somerset Care invites you to become a valued member of our team, delivering exceptional care across our 22 care homes in Somerset and Devon.

As a Flexible Workforce Team Health Care Assistant, you’ll play a vital role in supporting our residents to live fulfilling lives. Working alongside our dedicated team, you’ll provide high-quality care that promotes dignity, independence, and wellbeing.

We offer true two-way flexibility: you choose the shifts that suit your lifestyle, and once confirmed, we simply ask that you commit to working them. Whether you want regular hours or occasional shifts, you’re in control of when you work.

Why Join Us?

• Flexible Hours: Work as much or as little as you like.
• Comprehensive Training: Gain the skills and confidence to succeed.
• Blue Light Card (cost covered by us)
• Refer-a-friend bonus
• Health and wellbeing programme
• Wagestream (early access to earnings)
• Company pension
• Exclusive employee discounts

Responsibilities

A Health Care Assistant is our most essential role and involves:

• Supporting our customers by accompanying them to appointments, shopping, and helping with daily routines including washing, dressing and personal care.
• Providing companionship and making someone’s day that little bit easier.
• Undertaking a key worker role, building special relationships with the customer and developing extended relationships with their families and friends.
• Understanding the care plan in place to support the customers we look after and contributing to the reviewing of plans as directed.
• Keeping clear and accurate computerized records of the care and support provided.
• Ensuring our customers have eaten and are drinking enough to remain as healthy as possible.
• Encouraging the customers to take part in activities organised by the Activities Co-ordinator and provide one to one support.
• Supporting customers in order to improve health and wellbeing in order to maintain contact with family and friends e.g. skype, internet.
• Undertaking practical duties where necessary including cleaning, laundry and helping customers to maintain their social and occupational skills e.g. letter writing, folding clothes and laying tables.
• Working with the team around you to raise any concerns you have regarding our customers.

What You’ll Need

• At least 1 year’s experience in a residential care setting within the last 3 years
• A full driving license and access to own vehicle
• Access to a smartphone (iOS or Android)
• Availability to work a minimum of one shift per month
• Evidence of your right to work in the UK
• A CV detailing your full work history, including any gaps

Somerset Care Limited is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and welcome applications from all individuals. As this position involves “regulated activity” (as defined by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) an Enhanced DBS check will be undertaken. It’s a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group. Somerset Care is committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults and children at risk.