NHS Jobs
Job role: Senior Care Assistant
Salary: £13.50 an hour
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: 1549382383
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About the Job:
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.
Other responsibilities will include:
- Monitoring the wellbeing of each resident, being aware of any changes impacting care and care plans, ensuring that new needs are met, and written records are amended to reflect any variation.
- Being involved in the person-centered 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.
Our ideal candidate must:
- 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 both supporting and nurturing residents and staff.
- Be responsive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.
To apply for this job please visit beta.jobs.nhs.uk.
