Senior Care Assistant Full Time Days

Primelife; East Ferry; Sur place; GBP 27 000 - 29 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Fully funded DBS

Holiday Pay scheme

Refer a Friend scheme (£250)

Résumé du poste

Primelife is seeking a Senior Care Assistant for Seacroft Court in Skegness. The role involves leading the care team, ensuring high quality care and accurate medication administration while maintaining residents’ dignity and independence.

You will engage with residents with compassion, support daily living, and work within a dedicated home designed to meet diverse needs. DBS checks are funded, with holiday pay and refer-a-friend incentives offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in care roles with a compassionate, person-centred approach.
• Ability to lead and mentor team members to deliver high quality care.
• Strong communication with residents and colleagues to support wellbeing.

Responsabilités

• Lead, manage and support the care team to provide high quality care.
• Regularly review and monitor care plans and resident needs.
• Engage with residents respectfully, promoting dignity and independence.
• Administer and record medications accurately according to prescribed doses.
• Encourage resident participation in daily living decisions and activities.

Connaissances

Leading a care team

Patient care

Resident communication

Description du poste

Make a difference every day and give back to your community!

This role will be based at Seacroft Court in the seaside town of Skegness. The home is dually registered to provide both nursing and residential care, and has been specially designed to cater to the every need of 49 residents. Typically, residents within the home are living with a range of age-related health conditions, physical disabilities and mental health conditions that require dignified support from our caring team. It is essential that candidates for this role are therefore patient, understanding and respectful of our resident’s individual abilities.

Benefits of becoming our Senior Care Assistant:

• Hourly rates of pay ranging from £13.85 to £14.92 per hour dependent upon qualification level
• Opportunities to learn and progress with the support of our dedicated Quality Matters team
• Fully funded DBS
• Comprehensive Holiday Pay scheme that rewards you for your commitment to care
• Fantastic Refer a Friend scheme, offering up to £250 per successful candidate!

Responsibilities of our Senior Care Assistant include:

• Leading, managing and supporting your care team ensuring high quality of care and service is always provided to all residents
• Ensuring care plans are regularly reviewed continuous assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of resident’s care
• Engaging with residents in conversation at a level and pace that values the individual and respects their dignity and communication differences
• Administering and recording medication as prescribed, with accurate monitoring of drug dose to the residents in the home
• To ensure that each resident’s dignity and independence is always preserved and promoted
• To encourage each resident to achieve the highest possible quality of life that is right for them
• To encourage and assist residents to participate in any discussion relating to their daily living arrangements
• To assist where necessary with each resident’s personal care

What we’re looking for in our Senior Care Assistant:

To be successful within this role, you will have a genuine caring nature and a desire to make a real difference for our residents. Prior experience as a Care Assistant or Support worker is essential for this role, though prior leadership or supervisory experience is not essential as full training and mentoring is provided. Typically, our residents live with age related conditions, life-limiting health conditions and physical disabilities that require dignified support from our care team. It is essential that candidates for this role are therefore patient, understanding and respectful of our resident’s individual abilities.