Night Home Carer
North Northamptonshire Council
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Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
North Northamptonshire Council is looking for Night Home Carers to provide overnight support for younger adults with disabilities. You will work on scheduled night shifts to help residents feel safe, comfortable and supported, promoting wellbeing and independence in their own homes.
Candidates should be compassionate, reliable and flexible, with a willingness to learn. A full driving licence and enhanced DBS check are noted; the council offers night/sunday enhancements and a strong pension
Qualifications
- Experience in care is beneficial, but a great attitude and willingness to learn are important.
- Full driving licence with access to an insured vehicle to travel to locations.
Responsibilities
- Provide night support in customers' own homes during night hours.
- Travel to different locations for customer support as required.
- Deliver personal, practical and emotional care and support while promoting wellbeing.
- Ensure care plans are followed and refer concerns to the duty manager.
- Promote safety, independence and dignity and report issues.
- Possibly assist with medication administration and other home tasks.
Skills
Job description
Are you a caring, reliable person who thrives on helping others? Do you want a rewarding role where every shift has a real impact? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
We're looking for enthusiastic Night Home Carers to join our Specialist Support and Enablement Services for Younger Adults team, providing vital overnight support to younger adults with disabilities.
While most people are asleep, you'll be helping individuals feel safe, comfortable and supported throughout the night, promoting their wellbeing and independence.
- Every Tuesday and Wednesday
- Every Thursday and every second Friday
- Compassionate and caring
- Dependable and responsible
- Positive and enthusiastic
- Respectful and person-centred
- Committed to helping others live independently
- Experience in care is beneficial, but a great attitude and willingness to learn are just as important.
- 1/3 enhancement for waking night shifts
- Enhanced working on Sundays and Bank Holidays
- Additional enhancements where applicable
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Learning and development opportunities
- The chance to build a rewarding career with North Northamptonshire Council
Our services operate 365 days a year, meaning every night you work helps provide essential support to people who rely on us.
What will you be doing?
- Provide night support to a customer living within their own home. Customer may require support during the night which you will attend to.
- Travel to different locations for customer support as and when required.
- Provide practical, personal and emotional care and support to customers who may have a range of different health and social care needs.
- Ensure each customer experiences a service that meets their own personal needs and preferences, as set out in their care/support plan, and to refer any areas of concern to the duty manager.
- Work in such a way as that promotes the customers' health and wellbeing, ensures dignity is preserved, supports independence and choice whilst maintaining safety making sure any areas of concern are reported.
- Provide a flexible service that may involve a range of activities including personal care, administration of prescribed medication, practical help at home, etc.
- Work with the customer to understand and contribute to assess their needs of customers, e.g. risk, manual handling and use of low-level equipment.
- Ensure that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself and other persons.
- Comply with the policies and procedures, and any relevant legislative requirements.
- Carry out any other duties which all within the broad spirit, scope and purpose of this job and which are commensurate with the grade of the post.
- Candidates ideally should have a full driving licence with access to a full serviced appropriately insured vehicle in order to travel to various locations.
- Successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check which will be covered by the employer.
- You must have a genuine interest to work within social care.
- You should have the ability to provide excellent care and support to all our customers.
- You should treat others with dignity and respect.
- You will be flexible and compassionate.
- You are able to work well alone and in a team environment.
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
Our Values Define Who We Are And How We Operate, By Forming The Foundation For How We Interact With Our Customers, Colleagues And Provide Our Services. They Are Also At The Forefront Of Our Decision Making And Delivery And Are
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
- Night Carer JD.pdf
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