The Brighton Home is one of the Society’s earliest homes and has been extensively and tastefully refurbished. It offers a retirement living section as well as a separate residential care block. The Brighton Home has 21 residential care places and 13 single rooms.

Our enthusiastic and motivated care team provides care 24/7 for our residents. The Care Assistant’s role is vital in residential care of the elderly, promoting their health and well-being on a personal level.

Because we provide care 24/7, we especially need staff to work through the night, providing care and support to very frail, and sometimes sick residents. 

We currently have opportunities for experienced Night Care Assistants who are compassionate and adaptable to join our Care Team in our residential care home for elderly people in Brighton (Flexible Part-time Contracts available). Are you able to:

• Provide a high quality, professional service of care to our residents.
• Assist with all aspects of care, including personal care, end of life care, and nutritional help.
• Record nightly care entries on care plan system.
• Support residents to eat and drink.
• Treat others as individuals with unique and diverse needs.
• Treat our residents with dignity and respect.
• Get to know residents so as to comfort, assist and give reassurance when needed.
• Support our residents to keep independent and healthy and encourage them to be part of the community within the home.
• Assist with tidying, cleaning, laundering and other domestic tasks when needed.

About you:

• You need to be someone who enjoys working with older people and can have an empathy with them;
• You need to be able to work in a team and be willing to take on any task to provide an excellent level of care to our clients; and
• You need to be well-organised, adaptable and practical.

Recognising that your contribution can make a difference is important. For night staff, we require you to have previous care experience - please only apply if you have worked as a care assistant before.

Hours: Flexible Part-time Contracts available (approximately three shifts per week).Bank Shifts also available to cover for sickness, absence, holiday and relief.

Number of hours negotiable upon offer of a contract - Please call us for more information.

Benefits to you:

• Being part of our friendly staff team
• We have achieved the IIP Silver Accreditation and we will invest in you
• We offer a full induction to the work
• On-going training and support
• Flexible working pattern
• Work clothing provided
• Paid holidays
• Pension scheme 
• Recommend a Friend Scheme 

If you are looking for a challenging, yet rewarding role and live near our friendly residential care home then we want to hear from you!— What our staff say about us: …“It is a friendly and welcoming place to work” … —

Pilgrims’ Friend Society is a registered charity. Our Christian ethos is central to everything we plan and do. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Please note: this vacancy may close sooner if sufficient applications have been received so please apply as soon as possible if interested.

To apply for this position, please click the "Apply" button below. You will be redirected to our careers page where you will need to apply for the role on our website to be considered for the role.