Senior Care Assistant

SENIOR CARE ASSISTANT REQUIRED FOR DAY OR NIGHT SHIFTS AT A BEAUTIFUL, DEMENTIA, RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME BASED NEAR SOUTHAMPTON, HAMPSHIRE (SO40) - £12.00 - £13.00 PER HOUR (DoE) – 24 OR 36 HOUR CONTRACTS ON OFFER
Ideally will be a car driver due to the location of the care home.
Benefits to you as a Senior Care Assistant:
28 days days holiday (FTE), increasing with length of service
Great pay (plus annual pay reviews!)
Exciting opportunities for you to expand your knowledge and skills
Enhanced Bank Holiday rates
Bespoke Supportive Induction Training Programmes, ongoing training and development and nationally recognised qualifications
Paid online learning time
Pension contributions
Free parking
Free Uniform
Free DBS
Annual Staff Awards Programme celebrating our great staff
Opportunity to work for an award-winning Care Home provider
Beautiful, friendly, homely, award winning, family run Care Home is recruiting for a Senior Care Assistant for days or night shifts, to provide high quality Residential Dementia Care in a highly reputable care home, near Southampton, Hampshire (SO40).
The home recently won an award for “Management Team of the Year” in the national care awards.
Their residents are the forefront of everything. They focus on their vision to offer “A place called Home”. Their values are based on Person Centered Care, Team Working, Taking Responsibility, Effective Communication and promoting a Positive Outlook.
The ideal Senior Care Assistant will have bags of passion while always considering the resident’s choices, their views and respecting their independence.
As a Senior Care Assistant your duties will include:
Moving and Handing, Infection Control, Safeguarding, First Aid and DOLS, Administering medication.
Filling in daily charts such as daily logs, MAR and TMAR charts, food and fluid, bowel movement and body maps
Have experience of running shifts and supporting a care team
Leadership of team
What are we looking for in a Senior Care Assistant
For this role, our client is looking for an experienced Senior Care Assistant.
You must ideally have an NVQ 2 in Health and Social Care and working towards NVQ Level 3.
Our clients expect and look for qualities of an individual’s character - areas like:
Kindness
Honesty
Friendliness
Passion
Good communication,
Team player
Ability to work on your own initiative
Able to think and make decisions under pressure
Be positive when the chips are down
Always keep a smile
Care First UK are Permanent Healthcare Recruitment Specialists acting on behalf of our client.
Our client is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
This advertised job is not eligible for sponsorship at the moment.
A pre-condition of this employment is that you must hold a right to work in the UK.
For further details on this fantastic opportunity please apply now and Adam from Care First UK will call you asap.
Ref : 5/southampton
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