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Recruitment
GILLINGHAM SCHOOL, DORSET
per annum depending upon experience
Required to start as soon as possible, an IT Technician to join the team providing crucial IT support, maintenance and development planning across our large, vibrant and supportive school. We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced person who has plenty of IT knowledge and is comfortable with a variety of hardware and software to ensure the smooth running of our IT systems and services. This role is a fantastic opportunity to be involved in a wide variety of tasks alongside general IT support for students and staff. This could include areas such as hardware maintenance, network management, website development, software deployment and audio-visual support. The successful candidate will also understand the need to continually develop and update their knowledge and skills. Gillingham is an ambitious and happy school which offers excellent resources, outstanding facilities and a special ethos both amongst students and staff. Closing date 4th January 2022. Please apply on line via the school web-site (https://www.gillingham-dorset.co.uk). We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and will require the disclosure of any criminal convictions. We look forward to receiving an application from you.
GILLINGHAM SCHOOL, DORSET
per annum depending upon experience
Required to start as soon as possible, a Frontline IT Technician to join the team providing crucial IT support and maintenance across our large, vibrant and supportive school. We are seeking an enthusiastic, person who has a keen interest in IT and is looking to gain experience with a variety of hardware and software to ensure the smooth running of our IT systems and services. This role is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience and training in a wide variety of tasks alongside general IT support for students and staff. This could include areas such as hardware maintenance, network management, website development, software deployment and audio-visual support. Whilst no technical qualifications will be required these will be advantageous. The successful candidate will be passionate about IT and be looking to learn and develop within this sector. Gillingham is an ambitious and happy school which offers excellent resources, outstanding facilities and a special ethos both amongst students and staff. Closing date 4th January 2022. Please apply on line via the school web-site (https://www.gillingham-dorset.co.uk). We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and will require the disclosure of any criminal convictions. We look forward to receiving an application from you.
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New Blackmore Vale helps smash target
By Miranda Robertson
A woman who started a personal care business from her home in Shillingstone just two months ago has already achieved what she set out to do in a year –thanks to a small ad in the New Blackmore Vale. Paula Saunders launched Pristine Care after years of experience working for social services and in private homes and palliative care. She offers all aspects of personal care to people in their own homes, helping with everything from showering to dog walking. Her first ad in this magazine, a simple business card size ad designed by our team, netted her an £80,000 a year contract. Her second netted her a £140,000 a year contract. She is getting enquiries every day. She said: “Having my own business is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. “I wanted it done holistically – and I’ve got the right people around me, the right area and the right clients. We’ve got the right ideas and the right way of doing things.” She added: “Thanks to my advertisement in the magazine I’ve achieved what I wanted to in a year in two months. It’s never going to be a big business, just a really excellent service. “We’ve already got a reputation for having a gentle touch and can support on an emotional side as well as the practical.” Pristine covers a 20-mile radius of Shillingstone. Paula added: “The feedback from my ad has just been amazing – I had another call today, one yesterday and the day before. It’s really, really fantastic, really helped my business. “It’s fabulous being able to specialise in that field and put a nice team together for that person. “I trust my team implicitly –they are people we know and trust and I know they’re going to do a brilliant job. Paula Saunders – Manager Mobile: 07512 733 215 Business: 01258 721826 paulapenhills@gmail.com For expert advice and help planning your recruitment campaign, caqll The New Blackmore Vale’s advertising manager Debi Thorne on 07714 289409.
PRISTINE CARE AND DOMESTIC SERVICES
All aspects of personal care, hourly, days/nights Medication administration, nails cut, showering and bathing GP/Hospital appointments Meals cooked, cleaning, ironing, shopping, gardening, carpet cleaning and dog walking Paula Saunders – Manager Mobile: 07512 733 215 Business: 01258 721826 paulapenhills@gmail.com
SUCCESS: The ad that won Paula’s new personal care company large contracts
TIPPER DRIVER Permanent position Please call for details 07837470258
Looking for LABOURERS ASAP with some experience on building sites, for long term contracts. CSCS card is required, Work involves working away. For more information contact Wayne Gillam 07836 383066 Handicapped artist needs DAY HELP details 01747 229893
STALBRIDGE AND MARNHULL VETS requires someone bright and cheerful for the role of TRAINEE RECEPTIONIST, animal care assistant and cleaner. 4 days a week. Experience with dogs and cats (and humans) preferred. Further details at www.smvets.co.uk. Send letter and CV to info@smvets.co.uk Looking for a TRUSTWORTHY, RELIABLE AND EXPERIENCED COOK to come in and cook 3 evening meals per week / clear up for older couple. Preferably MON/WED/FRI. Hours would be around 4-8pm. Based in Horsington Village. Please email hello@thenoggcottages.com to arrange online interview.
GOOD OLD FASHIONED HOUSEKEEPER wanted to run a beautiful house for an elderly couple near Sherborne. Tasks include cleaning, cooking, tidying, running errands, laundry, ironing, changing beds. Experience necessary, references, clean driving licence. Must be discreet and kind, with attention to detail and initiative. 15-20 hours/week Ring 07429117479 MILKING ASSISTANTS Full and part-time staff required, milking sheep weekdays and weekends 4am and 2pm daily, all shifts on a rota with full training provided. Looking for a new challenge then please send CV or covering letter to vanessa@orchidmeadow.com
RECEPTIONIST REQUIRED Friendly and professional receptionist required at our smaller complementary health clinic near Shaftesbury, on Mondays and Wednesdays, and for occasional cover on other days. Computer literacy essential. For further details, please contact Margo Liddle margoliddle@glencairnhouse .co.uk or 01935 817442 DRIVERS WANTED full & part-time, car provided, paid holidays, pension scheme, further details 07813 209841
GENERAL ASSISTANT To join small friendly team supporting 15 elderly residents in our sheltered house in Shaftesbury. We are an independent charity managed by trustees. Duties include cleaning, laundry, preparing meals, but not personal care. Support offered, training given. Enhanced DBS check required. 30 hours per week, currently @ £9.30 per hour, to include some early evenings and weekends. For enquiries/application form/ visit please contact Rachel Maskell 01747 854922 info@pepperellbv.org.uk
Join our family
We are looking for committed, enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our progressive family business in a variety of roles. We offer excellent rates of pay, plentiful overtime available, an extensive benefits package including: 28 days annual leave pro rata, annual bonus, incremental annual leave allowance, pension scheme with 5% employer contribution and a gift of cheese for Christmas. There are opportunities for career progression and development.
Wyke Farms is a family-run cheese business based in the heart of the Somerset cheddar-making region. The Clothier’s have been making Cheddar to the same prize-winning recipe since 1861. Today, Wyke Farms is one of the largest independent cheese makers in the UK producing over 16,000 tonnes of cheddar per year all powered by 100% renewable energy. The products are sold throughout the UK and to 160 countries around the world.
wykefarms.com
We are seeking applications for the following full time, permanent positions: Production Operatives at our Cheese Dairy producing bulk Cheddar cheese and food ingredients in Wyke Champflower, Bruton. BA10 0PU. 39 hours a week working a shift pattern of 06:00 – 16:00 and 16:00 – 02:00 4 days per week on a 6-day rota (includes Saturday working). Good opportunities to progress for the right candidates. Multi Skilled Operatives at our Cheddar Cheese Packing plant in Wincanton BA9 9DT. This role manages the cutting and packing of cheese using modern, intelligent and technological production lines in a food environment. Working hours are a rotating shift pattern night/late/early, Monday to Friday.
For further information or to apply, please email us – jobs@wykefarms.com
We need carers like never before
The effects of the pandemic continue to affect us all. Our NHS is operating close to breaking point, ambulances are queuing outside hospitals for hours waiting to deliver patients into A&E and many older people are stuck in hospital because there is simply no places in care homes or community care at home available to look after them when they leave hospital care. One reason behind this is that care providers are struggling to recruit.
This affects those people in our community who are the most vulnerable and in greater need of our support. They need support from care providers such as Bramley Care to either return from hospital (and free up a much-needed bed) or enable them to continue living in their own homes. Bramley Care, as a small family run care provider, receives scores of requests for care each month, many of which have to be turned away due to the current lack of available care workers. The reason for the shortage of care workers maybe due to the effects of Brexit, the fear of working in care during the pandemic or simply that the pandemic has caused a huge back log of work not only for care but in every area of our economy.
Whatever the reason one thing remains, it is those of us who are the least able to cope who are suffering the most. Additional to this, if we can provide the care people need to leave hospital as soon as possible, or avoid hospital admission in the first place, we can also alleviate some of the pressure on the NHS which will eventually benefit us all.
In the past many care workers may not have received the acknowledgement that they deserved. For instance; in the early stages of the pandemic no one thought of standing in the streets to clap for care assistants, even though they had to work continuously throughout the pandemic providing professional care to vulnerable people, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Fortunately, this lack of recognition is gradually changing. People are realising the importance of care workers, even the Government is accepting that without the support of care providers such as Bramley Care, the NHS will struggle to free up beds and the most vulnerable members in society will suffer unnecessary hardship. The job of a care worker is not just a job it is a career. And it is a profession that we in society should recognise as important.
The shortage of care workers has helped to bring the sector into the limelight and raise the profile of care workers. It has also pushed up the wages that a care worker can expect to earn. A full-time carer at Bramley Care with a Level 3 care qualification earns £22,880 per annum (more if the additional weekend rates are included).
Of course, pay, although very important, is not the only thing that makes a satisfying job. Being part of a team that provides such vital support to those vulnerable people in our community (and therewith also to the wider community) is equally as important. The bond that develops between the carer and the cared for is such that our carers feel huge satisfaction when they have been able to make a difference in that person’s life.
There has never been a time that carers have been more needed than the present. At Bramley Care we are at the forefront of providing community care and although we always manage to provide the excellent quality care that our customers expect from us, daily we experience the effects of having to say no to many people who so need us.
If, after reading this you feel that you are able to offer your help, even if it is just for a few hours per week or just one or two shifts in one of our care homes, or, that you considering a career change, we would love to hear from you. The pay at, £11.00 per hour is good and full support and training is a definite as is the team spirt and the satisfaction that comes with doing such an important job.
We are offering anyone who starts a permanent job of 20 hours or more with us a one-off £500 starting bonus.
Richard Wagner
Director
Together we care
As the Manager of Bramley Homecare, I do my very best to ensure, however short staffed we are, that clients’ visits are not cancelled. Our ethos is to care for our clients, no matter the obstacles we encounter. In my position as manager I am considered the “last man standing” and I will administer care if there is no one else to go. Just lately, that has been more frequently the case. I have been to visit many different people and it has been an absolute pleasure. After spending a lot of time in the office it is so heart warming to see the difference we make to people’s life.
What seems small to us can mean a lot to those who are not able to manage without our support. We do not do the job for gratitude, but it is nearly always given and makes such a difference when you are working hard to meet deadlines. Listening to how our clients talk about our carers, with genuine affection and appreciation. This really bought it home to me what a worthwhile job we are doing and this gives us such a boost to know our work does not go unnoticed.
After 20 years of working for a local council in senior management I would never have considered a position in care, until I met my new partner Richard, Director of Bramley Care. As a family run business, upon witnessing the current crisis created by the shortage of care staff, I decided to give care a go. After my first day I came home and cried on the phone to my mum, meeting vulnerable people who rely on the vital help from a care visitor was truly emotional. With training and support, I started to realise that my hands are capable of a loving touch to help, my words offer support, and my own smile is contagious and makes smiles!
The Home Care Team are absolutely fantastic, they are a family in their own right, they are not only there for the vulnerable that they visit but they are there for each other too. 24/7 there is always help for each other at the end of the phone. With their support, I am now happily making home visits and making a difference to people lives. The satisfaction that this brings is unbelievable. These people, they need and deserve care for the things that I/we take for granted. But if there is not enough care staff available then what happens?
Complete care solutions We are recruiting
We pay our carers up to £14 per hour
Specialists in providing bespoke, professional care for older people Flexible shifts Full training Transport to work* Possible accommodation* * 20% overtime enhancement *£500 welcome bonus! Plus * £500 welcome bonus! plus
Join our team and, as a thank you for joining us, you will receive a £500 welcome bonus*
We want to provide the very highest standard of care to all our clients, and to do that, we want to recruit and retain the very best.
*Terms and conditions apply
EXPERIENCED ADMIN/OFFICE MANAGER WANTED at Jackson-Stops, Sherborne. 01935 810 141 / sherborne@jacksonstops.co.uk
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THE COFFEE HUB GROUP
is looking for multiple people to join their award winning team. Current roles available include: Production & Dispatch Operative Stock Control & Warehouse Supervisor Sales Office Administration Assistant
Please email your CV to: enquiries@coffeehubgroup.c om
Wessex Vehicle Services Ltd Compton Mills SP3 5DW Commercial Body Builders Fancy a change? If you can work with your hands, read a tape measure come and visit us. In House Training will be provided for the ideal candidate. We require Full time Skilled & Semi-Skilled Commercial Vehicle Body Builders Knowledge of working with commercial vehicle bodies would be an advantage but not essential. The ability to problem solve, work to completion deadlines, within a team, while maintaining a high standard of build quality are key attributes within the role. You must be able to work on your own and as part of a team and communicate well with others. Full UK Driving license required. Friendly working environment, company pension scheme after probationary period. Good rates of pay. Please contact Nigel Mustill for more information on 01722 714545 or send CV to nigel@wessexvehicles.co.uk Reference ID: WVS-03
Five Bees Limited
linda@michaelbromfield.com
Executive Assistant and Property Manager
This is a position that offers a variety of tasks and invites applicants who can offer a variety of skills including IT, sound administration, strong self-management, flexibility and long term vision and commitment. Sherborne, Dorset based. Salary range £23000 - £30000. For full Job Description please email linda@michaelbromfield.com
Assistant Administrator for Executive PA and Property Manager
Challenging and interesting position with a variety of tasks. Keyboard, IT and Computer skills essential. Sherborne based. Salary £16000 -20000. For Job Description please email linda@michaelbromfield.com
We are looking for an experienced OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR/OFFICE MANAGER
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Flexible part-琀me posi琀on available for an organised, outgoing individual
The Fonthill Estate is looking for an energe琀c person with excellent communica琀on and organisa琀onal skills who would be able to dedicate 16-20 hours per week to the promo琀on and sales of our venues for weddings and events. We can be 昀exible o昀ering home or oce working but the right person would need to liaise closely with the Estate oce on a regular basis. The posi琀on will involve some weekend and evening working, to meet couples on site and to handle enquiries promptly. There is the opportunity for the right candidate to take on our marke琀ng and social media campaign and to grow the role. Compe琀琀ve hourly rate. Driving licence & own car essen琀al. All enquiries please email vm@fonthill.co.uk with CV.
Based in Wincanton, we have the following vacancies:
NIGHTS WAREHOUSE OPERATIVE
We are looking for a keen, hard-working person to prepare orders for loading onto vans and assisting in the warehouse with associated tasks. The position involves some work in fridges and freezer as well as an ambient warehouse. Sunday – Friday Appx 20 hours per week.
FULL TIME WAREHOUSE SUPERVISOR
The position involves assisting in the warehouse with unloading deliveries and associated tasks. Working in an ambient warehouse, plus some work in fridges and freezer. Forklift licence would be beneficial. Monday – Saturday Appx 40 hours per week. To apply please email your CV careers@finefoodco.co.uk
REMOVALS & STORAGE REMOVALS & STORAGE
THE ARMISHAWS REMOVAL GROUP HAVE AN IMMEDIATE VACANCY FOR AN Assistant Transport Manager
To join our busy head office. Duties would include customs, bookings and general operational paperwork, dealing with customers and staff. Needs good general knowledge of the transport industry, a transport CPC would be an advantage. Must have a positive and good humoured personality. Role is located at our Wincanton head office. Please send CV and covering letter to Lloyd@armishaws.com
Situations wanted
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PRIVATE CARERS AVAILABLE for DAY and NIGHT care. Dbs, insured and references. Please contact 07792063215
PRISTINE CARE AND DOMESTIC SERVICES
All aspects of personal care, hourly, days/nights Medication administration, nails cut, showering and bathing GP/Hospital appointments Meals cooked, cleaning, ironing, shopping, gardening, carpet cleaning and dog walking Paula Saunders – Manager Mobile: 07512 733 215 Business: 01258 721826 paulapenhills@gmail.com
