Clinical Senior Care Assistant

Dovehaven Care Homes; Sefton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Dovehaven Care Homes seeks a Clinical Senior Care Assistant for Birch Abbey Nursing Home, working nights with a focus on managing the care team and delivering high standards of care. Applicants should possess an NVQ level 3 in health & social care and have previous experience in elderly care.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

2 weekly pay

Cost of DBS check paid

Free uniform

28 days paid annual leave pro rata

Pension scheme

Qualifications

• Previous experience in an elderly care setting required.
• Supervisory experience in a care/nursing home setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage care team and ensure adherence to CQC guidelines.
• Supervise and instruct less experienced staff.
• Promote and deliver high standards of care.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Self-motivated

Team player

Well-organised

Flexible

Education

NVQ level 3 in health & social care

Job description

Clinical Senior - Nights

Permanent, full time contracted hours available!

About our home:

Dovehaven Care Homes are recruiting for a Clinical Senior Care Assistant to join our team at Birch Abbey Nursing Home, Alexandra Road, Southport, working NIGHTS - 4 x 12-hour shifts - 8pm - 8am.To see the home, follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A50LiOTBbVw

Birch Abbey is a Nursing home catering for up to 60 residents. The home specialises in dementia care, and our aim is to ensure all our residents feel as comfortable as possible. Our homes promote independence, dignity and respect through positive risk taking and empowerment.

About the Role:

As the Clinical Senior Care Assistant, you will be tasked with managing the care team within the Home and ensuring that care staff are adhering to CQC guidelines whilst providing exceptional levels of care to residents. You will promote and deliver high standards of care and supervise and instruct less experienced staff to enable them to fully contribute to the care provided within the Home. There will be a structure of ongoing training on the clinical/medications side of the role with structured pay increases on successful completion of this training and increased duties.

Your Skills and Experience
• Excellent communication and written skills
• Previous experience working within an elderly care setting.
• Self-motivated, resilient and well-organised
• Team player but able to work on your own initiative
• Dependable, able to work well under pressure and flexible to meet the needs of the Home
• Previous supervisory experience within a care/nursing home setting and experience of working with the elderly and willingness to undertake mandatory clinical training for the role.
• An NVQ level 3 in health & social care is required!

In return we offer:
• Career development opportunities.
• 2 weekly pay.
• Cost of DBS check paid.
• Free uniform.
• 28 days paid annual leave pro rata.
• Pension scheme.

As part of our recruitment process you will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check. Their code of conduct can be found on the following link that you can copy and post to your web browser if you wish to read:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dbs-code-of-practice

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