Healthcare Assistant - Southend

gap healthcare are now recruiting permanent and temporary Healthcare Assistants for full time and part time hours, working directly in services within Rochford and surrounding areas.

We have ample work opportunities with a variety of shifts available including long days, sleep ins and nights across a variety of services including Private Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Day Centres and Residential homes.

Benefits of being a temporary Healthcare Assistant with gap healthcare:

• Competitive pay rates
• Flexibility to choose shifts that suit your lifestyle via our app
• Free ongoing training
• Full time or part time hours to suit
• Temp of the month reward scheme
• Support from out of hours service
• Access to permanent opportunities
• Weekly pay
• Enhanced pay rates for weekend and Bank Holidays
• Paid annual leave and pension contribution
• Quick registration process via our online portal

If you have previous experience working as a HCA/Support Worker within similar environments and you are passionate about delivering excellent care, please apply today!

***Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for overseas applicants***

If you have any questions about this position, please call gap healthcare on 01702 987 908 and ask for Ash.

Are you a Care Home Manager? Do you have experience managing residential or nursing homes? Are you looking for a new opportunity?

gap healthcare are recruiting for a Registered Manager Adults Services for a residential home situated in Norwich, Norfolk. 

Our client is well established and is a leading provider of adult’s services and have continued to be awarded Good by CQC. My client is looking for a focused, motivated, and high achiever to further improve and maintain the high standards that are embedded throughout their values and service delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Promote a caring environment for residents according to guidelines, practice, legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Effectively lead and manage the team to promote an environment that supports dignity and respect.
• Ensuring satisfactory measures are in place to protect the health and safety of residents and staff.
• Ensuring financial and commercial management are to the highest standards according to company policies.
• Good understanding of CQC regulations and requirements.
• To advise on policies and procedures to reflect the aims and objectives of the home.
• Accessing development needs of residents and to monitor and improve Home's care plan and practices.
• Manage and operate budgets within the agreed outlines of the Home.

Skills required:

• · You will need to have previous experience as a Registered Manager/Deputy Manager
• · This role requires an NVQ/Diploma Level 5 or working towards.

If you would like to apply for this fantastic Care Home Manager opportunity, or would like more information about the role, please contact the us on 01473 350 255 or send your CV to helga.nagy@gap-healthcare.com

Activities Coordinator

Do you want to make a difference daily supporting residents in their day-to-day lives? We’re looking for a motivated Activities Coordinator to deliver nutritious food and market leading care to residents, whilst keeping the residents and their families at the heart of everything you do. This service is located in Flitwick, Bedfordshire.

My client is well established, with services that are managed to exceptional standards providing residential, nursing and dementia care. As the Activities Coordinator, you will need to develop engaging and creative activities for the residents to enjoy, whilst maintaining the high standards that are embedded throughout their values and service delivery.

• Salary – £24,466 per annum
• Hours – 40 hours per week
• Area – Flitwick, Bedfordshire
• Permanent position

Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee an active living programme for each resident, which supports their mobility, social contact, independence and quality of life.
• To provide a caring, supportive and nurturing environment in which residents can feel secure and free from harm.
• Ensuring that each resident’s care plan is followed and amended as appropriate to reflect their changing needs.
• Collaborating with the nursing and senior staff to assess strengths and capabilities of each resident in regard to activities of daily living.
• Ensuring that any risk assessments have been carried out prior to any new planned activity or event.
• Devising simple and safe activities which encourage movement and maintain joint flexibility and functional use of hands and fingers in activities.

Skills Required

• Previous experience as an activities coordinator and experience developing engaging activities programmes is required for this role.
• Previous experience working within an adult care home is essential.
• Caring personality and nature
• Positive attitude and passion to help others.
• Flexibility with shift patterns
• Basic IT and computer skills
• A commutable distance from Flitwick, Bedfordshire.

Benefits

• Competitive salary - £24,466 per annum
• 29 days annual leave per year
• Cycle2Work Scheme
• Continuous training and realistic development
• Two paid volunteer days in any of the services
• 24/7 counselling and support services available for you and your family

The position of Activities Coordinator is very rewarding and makes a difference to the quality of life for residents on a daily basis. If you feel that you have the desired passion for delivering excellent levels of support and care, then please get in touch with Mariyam Bashir at the Peterborough office on 01 7 33 606 2 40 for a confidential chat. Please note that this vacancy is located in Flitwick, Bedfordshire.

gap healthcare are currently recruiting behalf of our client for a Registered Manager to run a 47 bed Nursing home situated in Little Wakering.

Our client is well established and is a leading provider of adult’s services. My client is looking for a focused, motivated, and high achiever to further improve and maintain the high standards that are embedded throughout their values and service delivery.

Requirements:

• NVQ Level 5
• 3 year Management experience
• CQC Registered
• Enhanced DBS

Salary - £45,000 to £55,000 depending on experience and qualifications

Hours – 40 hours per week plus on call requirements (Monday to Friday)

If you would like to apply for this fantastic Care Home Manager opportunity, or would like more information about the role, please contact the team at us on 01702 987 908 or send your CV to asharn.andrew@gap-healthcare.com.

gap healthcare are currently recruiting for a number of support workers on behalf of one of our client based in Shoeburyness.

Our client are looking for individuals with a willingness to learn, and a genuine desire to support individuals to achieve their goals. You will be working with young individuals between the age of 16 to 25 supporting and enabling them to maintain skills and personal interests.

Salary starting from £23,000 and £27,000 per year

Work Pattern:

• Early shifts: 7am to 3pm
• Late shifts: 3pm to 11pm
• Sleep-in's: 11pm to 7am

What is required:

• Minimum 6 months healthcare experience in the UK

Benefits:

• Comprehensive induction
• Full training provided with opportunities to degree level
• Career development opportunities
• 28 Days holiday
• Free, on-site parking available
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Blue Light Card for retail discounts
• Employee assistance programme

If you are interested in this role, please contact Ash at 01702 987 908 or email asharn.andrew@gap-healthcare.com

Gap healthcare are currently supporting their client who are looking for a Resourcing Specialist to join their HR Team based in Greater London. Our client is offering a salary of up to £36,715 and ideally needs someone who is available to start early November.

This is a full-time permanent role (37.5 hours over 5 days)

The role will usually be required to work one day per week as a team either at South Wimbledon, Stockwell or Croydon and then a further day will be spent working from one of the clients services based on business needs.  Generally, the other three days can be completed remotely unless business needs mean you need to be working with colleagues face to face.

• Optimise resource allocation and planning across the organisation by accurately assessing and managing business needs providing an end-to-end service which gives support across absence, vacancies, retention and temporary resources.
•  Provide an end-to-end service which gives the organisation full resource planning support across absence, vacancies, retention, and temporary resources via a centralised approach.

• Consult with own team and other parts of the organisation to determine resourcing needs.
• Use relevant workforce planning data and knowing the right sourcing approaches and digital tools to tap into diverse and untapped candidate pools to meet current and future business needs.

• Manage, train and develop our in-house zero hour workforce as well as recruitment agencies for ad hoc resource supply.
• Advise, coach and support managers with all people management matters using a ‘business partnering’ approach, setting out options and risks for their consideration – maintain related systems and processes to ensure detailed analysis can be done.
• Ensure up to date, robust and efficient systems, processes, policies and procedures are in place across all resourcing aspects to comply with UK statutory legislation requirements.
• Ensure robust, efficient and customer friendly administration processes are in place to support managers and colleagues e.g., letter templates, policy guides.
• Advise and support managers and colleagues as a key business partner to support their compliance and understanding of legislative requirements and good employment practice.
• People and Culture workstream lead on people focused projects e.g. TUPE, Pay Review, Consultations.
• Ensure our systems and processes enable managers to effectively manage their teams and easily access quality data – enabling a “self-service” model for all those managing people in the organisation to access.
• Provide and manage related administration support ensuring all People and Culture related enquiries are responded to effectively and efficiently within the agreed service levels.
• Assist with the design, development and ongoing review of the companies policies and procedures.
• Attend all training, development and networking opportunities, internally and externally, as required.
• Follow the companies’ policies, procedures and performance expectations.
• Act in accordance with the values and purpose of the companies and, specifically, Companies code of conduct, equality and diversity and health and safety policies.
• Carry out any other duties, which from time to time may be assigned but within the general purposes of the job description.

• Supplier management of those providing related systems and resources to us.
• Document, implement and improve resourcing processes, compiling data analysis reports and associated recommendations for improvement.
• Perform system upgrades, as well as providing ongoing training and support to users.
• Ongoing development and implementation of new processes and systems for efficient people management.
• Perform detailed statistical analysis and draws conclusions on gathered data and running queries.
• Ensure the efficient recording, management and secure storage of resourcing and overall adherence to Data Protection legislation.
• Perform audits on related processes and documents and ensuring compliance to statutory legislation at all times.
• Keep track of market advancements and trends via networking and other research.

Desired Qualifications

• CIPD Associate Membership, working towards Chartered

If you are interested in this role please apply now or for further information please contact gap healthcare Southend ask for Pete

gap healthcare are recruiting Childrens Support Workers in Staines and surrounding areas.

We have a variety of services with various shifts available on an temporary ongoing basis.

Requirements

• NVQ Level 3
• DBS on update service

Benefits

• Flexibility to choose shifts from our app
• Paid annual leave
• Pension contribution
• Weekly pay
• Enhanced pay rates on the weekends and bank holidays –
• Quick registration process via our online portal

If you meet the requirements and are interested please apply now or call gap healthcare Southend and ask for Pete

gap healthcare are currently looking for House Keepers/Cleaners in East Croydon. 

This is an ongoing temporary role with an immidate start required.

The role will be Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Requirements

• DBS on the update

If you are interested please apply now or call gap healthcare Southend and ask for Pete