Senior Care Assistant Nights

Springcare Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care organization in Manchester is seeking a Senior Care Assistant to provide essential support and care to residents. This role involves administering medication, maintaining records, and leading a care team. Candidates should hold a Level 3 in Health & Social Care and possess strong communication and leadership skills. The position offers full training and progression opportunities within a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Access to work placed pension scheme

Early pay using Wage Stream App

Access to counselling and wellbeing support

Family-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar role.
• Experience administering medication.
• Ability to lead a team of care assistants.

Responsibilities

• Support residents with personal care.
• Administer medication.
• Maintain accurate records.
• Lead a team of care assistants.
• Apply dressings as needed.
• Communicate with external sources.

Skills

Supportive both physically and emotionally

Patience

Passion for helping others

Kind and caring nature

Communication skills

Teamwork

Leadership skills

Education

Level 3 in Health & Social Care

Job description

Overview

Would you like to be a part of a caring, supportive team? We now have an opportunity for a Senior Care Assistant to join Springcare, where every day you can make a difference to someone's live.

Qualities

• Being supportive, both physically and emotionally to both residents and colleagues
• Patience and the ability to keep calm and work well under pressure
• Passion to help others to live later life well
• Have a kind, warm and caring nature
• Communication skills, able to communicate well with both colleagues and residents
• Can work as part of a team and on their own
• Leadership skill and able to inspire and motivate others
• Senior Care Assistants not only help to provide care to our residents, but they also help to make our residents lives fulfilled, treat each resident with dignity & respect, and care for them all as if they were their own family.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

As a Senior Care Assistant, you would hold a minimum of a level 3 in Health & Social Care, have experience administering medication, and have proven experience in a similar role.

The Role

• Supporting residents with personal care
• Administrating medication
• Maintaining accurate records
• Leading a team of care assistants, and assist nurse in charge
• Apply dressings as and when needed
• Take any samples as and when necessary
• Communicate with external sources such as Doctors and District Nurses

Shift patterns

Our care team provide 24-hour care, where day care shifts are worked from 8am until 8pm, and night-time shifts are from 8pm until 8am.

• Day shifts: 8am – 8pm
• Day shifts: 8am – 2pm
• Day shifts: 2pm – 8pm
• Night shifts: 8pm – 8am

What Springcare can offer

• Permanent full and part time day or night contracts – with access to our work placed pension scheme
• Early pay using Wage Stream App – withdraw up to 50% of earnings in advance of pay
• Access to Blue Light Card – savings across hundreds of national retailers
• Full support with ongoing CPD & Revalidation and access to fully funded training for nationally recognised qualifications with career progression opportunities
• Refer a friend £££ scheme for each friend that you recommend (T&C apply)
• Access to counselling and wellbeing support
• Family friendly policies
• Smooth robust recruitment process through our portal

Requirements and how to apply

Successful applicants would require two written references, a standard/enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) (depending on role) and evidence of a right to work in the UK check.

If you are interested in becoming a Senior Care Assistant with Springcare, have the qualities that we believe make our Senior Care fantastic, we would love to hear from you and be a part of your new chapter in care.

Springcare are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding, and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care.