Care Worker Level 2 (Night)

Nottingham City Council; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham City Council is seeking a Night Care Worker Level 2 in Nottingham for a permanent role with a 2-week rolling night-shift rota. The post requires a DBS enhanced check and offers a starting salary of £27,709 increasing to £28,608 per annum pro rata for part-time staff.

The role involves leading the night team, ensuring safety and wellbeing, administering medication, and delivering person-centred care. Closing date 4 October 2026.

Qualifications

• DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is essential.
• You will operate a two-week rolling rota and work night shifts.

Responsibilities

• Guide and support the night team, providing leadership and ensuring high standards of care throughout the shift.
• Lead on promoting and maintaining the safety, health and wellbeing of citizens, responding appropriately to incidents and seeking medical advice or assistance when required.
• Maintain the security and safety of the building overnight, carrying out relevant checks and ensuring a safe environment for citizens, visitors and colleagues at all times.
• Provide safe, appropriate and personalised care and support that maintains citizens’ dignity, maximises independence, and gives them choice and control over how their care is delivered.
• Implement, write, maintain and monitor person-centred care plans, reporting any concerns or reasons why care plans cannot be followed.
• Administer medication in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Monitor the care and welfare of citizens, maintaining accurate records within running records, communication books, care plan monitoring charts (such as weight monitoring and falls records), and other written and electronic systems as required.
• Work closely with citizens, their families, carers, meaningful others and other professionals to ensure a coordinated approach to care and support, promoting continuity of care and treatment.

Skills

Leadership

Caregiving

Safety awareness

Interpersonal skills

Education

DBS Enhanced Check

Job description

Contract Type:Permanent

Working Hours:33.25 Hours per week

Worker Type:Onsite Worker

Salary:Starting Salary is £27,709 (Level one) rising to £28,608 (Level three) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location:Cherry Trees, Chippenham Road, Bestwood Park Estate, Nottingham, NG5 5TA

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

This role is 33.25 hours per week and operates on a two-week rolling rota:

• Week 1: Wednesday to Friday, 9:25pm to 7:15am
• Week 2: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday, 9:25pm to 7:15am

As a Night Care Worker Level 2 you will:

• Guide and support the night team, providing leadership and ensuring high standards of care throughout the shift.
• Lead on promoting and maintaining the safety, health and wellbeing of citizens, responding appropriately to incidents and seeking medical advice or assistance when required.
• Maintain the security and safety of the building overnight, carrying out relevant checks and ensuring a safe environment for citizens, visitors and colleagues at all times.
• Provide safe, appropriate and personalised care and support that maintains citizens’ dignity, maximises independence, and gives them choice and control over how their care is delivered.
• Implement, write, maintain and monitor person-centred care plans, reporting any concerns or reasons why care plans cannot be followed.
• Administer medication in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Monitor the care and welfare of citizens, maintaining accurate records within running records, communication books, care plan monitoring charts (such as weight monitoring and falls records), and other written and electronic systems as required.
• Work closely with citizens, their families, carers, meaningful others and other professionals to ensure a coordinated approach to care and support, promoting continuity of care and treatment.

About You

The ideal candidate will be able to:

• Assist and support citizens to exercise choice and control in accordance with their needs, preferences and aspirations
• Encourage, motivate and support citizens to maintain or regain maximum independence in all aspects of daily living and purposeful activities
• Develop and coordinate leisure and social activities that promote self esteem, confidence and a purposeful day. This can include one to one or conversations group activities, supporting citizens with their individual interests, developing or maintaining contact with family, friends and community, accompanying citizens on outings, collection of shopping, pensions etc
• Write and maintain up to date individual person centred care plans for citizen

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is essential for this post.

Please note that this role does not meet the relevant salary threshold criteria for Skilled Visa sponsorship, and therefore applicants requiring sponsorship are unable to apply.

You can find the job description for this post here.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiriesplease contact Susan Lathall, Deputy Manager, by email at [e-mail].

Closing Date: 4th October 2026

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: To be confirmed

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