Care Practitioner
| Posting date: | 21 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £15.12 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2025 |
| Location: | Cramlington, NE23 6XF |
| Company: | Maria Mallaband Care Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | VA010860 |
Summary
About the Role
We are only able to accept applicants who have the right to work in the UK and live within a commutable distance to the location of the job role.
Maria Mallaband Care Group are looking for Care practitioners to join our family. The Care Practitioner role would suit those already qualified to undertake the responsibilities shown below, as well as high-quality Senior Care Assistants who are keen to progress in their career:
- Medication
- Tissue viability/wound management
- Continence
- Health Monitoring
- Physiological assessment and care planning
- Leadership and supervision of the care team
“Become a Key worker and make a difference”
Person Specification:
Education, training and qualifications
- Care practitioner award or equivalent
- Mentor/Supervision qualification
- Willing to undertake further clinical training
- Willing to undertake training qualification
Knowledge
- Able to demonstrate specific knowledge of clinical care in the older person
Experience
- Care home, Social Care or caring experience as a senior carer
- Customer service experience
- Experience working as a care practitioner
Personal attributes
- Team worker
- Caring
- Enthusiastic manner
- Trustworthy and honest
- Can-do attitude
- Strong communicator
- Personally committed
- Learns from mistakes
- Tenacious and resilient
- Takes accountability
- Professional
Skills and abilities
- Clinical and/or caring skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills
In return for all of this you will receive a competitive salary package plus:
- Simply Health – company funded, providing cashback for prescriptions, optical and dental costs 24/7 virtual GP access plus more for you and up to 4 children*
- Early Pay – Access to earned pay prior to payday
- Benefits platform – discounts across multiple retailers, leisure providers, hospitality etc.
- Pension Scheme with Nest
- Flexible working patterns
- Cycle to work scheme**
- Service recognition
- Training support and development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Wellbeing support
- Discounted gym membership
*Benefits require completion of a 12-week probationary period before they can be accessed.
**Benefit subject to deduction not taking colleague below National Living Wage
Astor
Astor Court Care Home is located near the village of East Cramlington, with local shops and the new Northumbria Emergency Care Hospital only a short distance away. The home is dual registered to provide residential and dementia care, including respite care and day stays. Astor Lodge View nursing home is also located in the grounds and offers general nursing and dementia nursing care.Facilities include en-suite bedrooms, several large lounges, a coffee shop, hairdressing salon, cinema, games room and a bar where residents and visitors socialise. The extensive grounds include large gardens to the front and back of the home and a small conservatory. Generous car parking is available.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme