Overview
Senior Care Assistant Days. Oak Springs Care Home
* Pay: £15.03 per hour
* Hours: 38.5 hours per week
* Shifts: 3 x 8am-8pm shifts and one half day each week of either 8am-2pm or 2pm-8pm
Join our dedicated team at Oak Springs, a luxury purpose-built residential care home providing exceptional residential, respite, and dementia care to older adults. Our 74-bed home, spread over three beautifully designed floors, offers a vibrant, enriched environment with features such as music rooms, a beauty salon, peaceful lounges, and courtyard areas.
We are passionate about enhancing the quality of life for our residents, supporting their individual needs, hobbies, and preferences.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Care Assistant, you will take on a leadership role, ensuring the highest standards of care and support for our residents. Your key responsibilities include:
* Personalised Care: Assisting residents with personal care, hygiene, meals, and daily activities while promoting dignity and independence.
* Companionship: Offering emotional support and fostering meaningful relationships.
* Leadership Duties: Supervising and mentoring care staff, conducting appraisals, supervisions, and interviews, administering medication and maintaining accurate records and supporting care planning, audits, and liaising with healthcare professionals.
* Promoting Wellbeing: Encouraging residents to engage in activities that enrich their lives, tailored to their interests and abilities.
* Upholding Standards: Ensuring the care home environment is safe, clean, and welcoming.
What We’re Looking For
We’re seeking an experienced, compassionate leader with a passion for elderly care. Ideal candidates will have:
* Proven supervisory or leadership experience in a residential or nursing home setting.
* A warm, positive personality and a calm, professional approach under pressure.
* A Level 3 Health & Social Care qualification (or willingness to achieve it).
* Confidence with record-keeping and using technology.
* Flexibility to adapt to the needs of residents and the home.
Benefits
* Free uniform. Free Meals. Free DBS.
* Discounts on the high street - with retailers like Asda, Costa and Argos
* Refer-a-Friend - and get a £250 bonus
* Flexible pay - choose when you are paid, and get money management tips too
* Free wellbeing programme - helping you look after your physical and mental health
* Employee recognition scheme - we recognise and reward great work
* Pension scheme - helping you plan for your retirement
* In-house training - ongoing face-to-face training, tailored to you
* Career opportunities - The chance to ‘make your mark’ and play a key role
Equal Opportunity
Sandstone Care Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We embrace diversity within each service, as we think it is important that the Social Care Workforce represents the people it serves. We welcome applications from people from backgrounds including disabled candidates, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, LGBTQ+ as well as non-binary candidates, and those with experience of mental health.
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