Senior Care Assistant

NHS; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. As a Senior Care Assistant, you will be part of a dedicated and supportive team, delivering high-quality, person-centered care to residents. With competitive rates of pay and opportunities for growth, this role offers a rewarding and fulfilling career in the care sector.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Care Assistant at Avery Healthcare, your primary focus will be to support and work alongside the Care team to deliver exceptional personal care, creating a safe, caring, and inclusive environment for residents, visitors, and staff. This will involve monitoring the wellbeing of each resident, being involved in the care planning process, supporting residents with their medication, and undertaking staff supervisions. You will also act as a key point of contact for residents, their families, and healthcare professionals, ensuring that any reasonable requests are addressed, and concerns or complaints are escalated.

Job responsibilities

Package Description: At Avery Healthcare, we are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We know how hard our teams work, and we are here to celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you will be making a positive impact on residents' lives every day; your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We are committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. And as part of our close-knit team, you will experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We are now looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Senior Care Assistant. If this sounds like the place for you, we would love to hear from you!

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.

Other responsibilities will include:

1. Monitoring the wellbeing of each resident, being aware of any change impacting on care and care plans, ensuring that new needs are met, and written records are amended to reflect any variation.
2. Being involved in the person-centered care planning process, by implementing, monitoring, and undertaking monthly evaluations.
3. Supporting residents with their medication requirements.
4. Undertaking staff supervisions and supporting staff with their development where required.
5. Acting as a key point for 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:

1. Have an NVQ 3 or equivalent in care for care homes.
2. Have 2 years experience working in a similar care environment.
3. Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
4. Have a positive attitude to both supporting and nurturing residents and staff.
5. Be responsive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.

Please note this role will require:

1. A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
2. Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.