Senior Care Assistant, Chapel Garth

Caring UK; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Doncaster is seeking a Senior Carer to lead care staff and ensure that service users receive high-quality care. Responsibilities include supervising staff, monitoring service users' wellbeing, and ensuring compliance with best practices and regulations. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a commitment to service user welfare, and the ability to work collaboratively with health professionals. This role is key in maintaining a supportive, person-centered care environment.

Qualifications

• Leadership skills to supervise care staff.
• Knowledge of best practices and regulatory compliance in care.
• Ability to monitor and adapt care plans based on changing needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to care staff within the service.
• Ensure care delivery meets legislative requirements and standards.
• Supervise staff to maintain efficient service operation.

Job description

The Senior Carer’s responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• To provide leadership to the care staff within the service
• To provide care in accordance with current best practices, according to policy and procedures, agreed standards, legislative requirements and relevant regulations, under the direction of the registered nurse
• To supervise the care services within the organisation in accordance with agreed standards
• To maintain skills at a current level, and undertake such training and development as may, from time‑to‑time, be required to maintain practices as up to date
• Ensure service users are at the heart of the care delivery and their wishes and preferences enhance their wellbeing
• Supervise staff and ensure that all staff contribute to the efficient running of the service
• Support service users to maintain their relationships and connections with the local community
• Monitor the wellbeing of each service user, 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, communicating updates to the registered nurse
• Be responsible for informing the nurse of any changes in the needs of service users
• Support service users with their medication requirements
• Act as a key point for contact with service users, 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
• Be responsible for promoting and protecting the welfare of those individuals supported by the service
• Develop effective working relationships with other employees within the service
• Work in cooperation with members of multidisciplinary teams to maximise opportunities for service users

Other duties and responsibilities to be undertaken may include any (or all) of the items in the following list:

• Seek opportunities for personal and professional growth, must have or willing to work towards level 3 and 4