Night Senior Care Assistant

Nexxus Care; Chasetown; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Night Care Assistant to join their dedicated team at a residential home. This role involves providing high-quality care during night shifts, ensuring the well-being and independence of service users. You will be responsible for medication management, developing care plans, and acting as a champion for service users. If you are a compassionate individual with supervisory experience and a passion for making a difference in people's lives, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to innovative care solutions and enjoy a supportive work environment with numerous benefits.

Benefits

Refer a friend scheme

Blue Light Card membership

Discount warranty & AA membership

Paid training and funded diploma

Funded DBS

2 free uniforms

Qualifications

• At least 1 year supervisory experience in a care home.
• Experience with medication, risk assessments, and care plans.

Responsibilities

• Support senior colleagues and the home manager to deliver care outcomes.
• Monitor administration of medication as per care plans.
• Promote independence and support service users in daily living.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Medication management

Risk assessments

Care plans

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Relevant care qualifications

Job description

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About The Role

Bracken House - Senior Night Care Assistant

Nexxus Care are recruiting for a senior care assistant for one of our residential homes in Bracken House. Shift pattern will be 10pm - 8am.

As well as a competitive pay structure, Nexxus Care offer a wide range of benefits such as:

• Refer a friend scheme
• Blue Light Card membership - This means you'll get discounts from loads of high street store including JD Sports, New Look, River Island and more! You can also save money on your holidays!
• Mend Your motors discount warranty & AA membership discount - In case of those unexpected car troubles
• Paid training and funded diploma - T&C's apply
• Funded DBS - T&C's apply
• 2 free uniforms

About You

Qualities we're looking for:

• At least 1 year supervisory experience in a care home
• Must have experience of medication, risk assessments, care plans and dealing with other professionals.
• Good communicator
• Ability to work well within a team

What we need from you:

• Work as part of a team and support senior colleagues and the home manager to deliver care and support service outcomes, developing and managing care and support plans, actively engaging with service users to promote independence and choice, supporting service users in making decisions about their life.
• Support with the team and monitoring of administration of medication as detailed in the service user's care plan and in line with organisational policies and procedures.
• Work flexibly, providing care and support to service users in aspects of their daily living.
• Act as the service user's champion in a nominated area of responsibility.
• Promote independence.
• Take appropriate action on any complaints, safeguarding issues, accidents and incidents in line with organisational policies and procedures.
• Complete relevant in-house training in accordance with job description.
• Completion of satisfactory DBS checks.

About Us

• Our vision is to provide quality, cost effective and innovative care through a highly motivated and professional team enabling citizens to enjoy healthier, more fulfilled lives.
• Our values:
  
  • We are ambitious, courageous and empowering.
  • We support and enable our staff to make things better.
  • We are open to doing things differently and will make best use of new technologies.
  • We are bold and willing to take difficult decisions in a commercial operating context.
  • We will make a contribution to tackling climate change.