Senior Care Assistant - Nights
Join Avery Healthcare to make a positive impact on residents' lives. The role is part‑time night shift working two nights per week.
Base pay range
Package description: Shift Details – Night shifts, two shifts per week. Your pay will be based on your skills and experience.
About the Role
Your focus as a Senior Care Assistant will be to support and work alongside the Care team to deliver high standards of personal care, providing a safe, caring, innovative, open, supportive and inclusive environment for residents, visitors and staff.
Responsibilities
* Monitoring the wellbeing of each resident, being aware of any change impacting on care and care plans, ensuring that new needs are met, and writing records are amended to reflect any variation.
* Being involved in the person‑centred care planning process, by implementing, monitoring and undertaking monthly evaluations.
* Supporting residents with their medication requirements.
* Undertaking staff supervisions and supporting staff with their development where required.
* Acting as a key point of contact with residents, their relatives and visitors, as well as health and social care professionals involved in their wellbeing, ensuring that any reasonable requests are acted upon and concerns or complaints are escalated.
About You
To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful and accountable in all that you do.
Ideal Candidate
* Have an NVQ 3 or equivalent in care for care homes.
* Have 2 years’ experience working in a similar care environment.
* Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
* Have a positive attitude to supporting and nurturing residents and staff.
* Be responsive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.
Benefits and Requirements
* DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
* Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.
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