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Job Vacancy: Senior Healthcare Assistant

Location: The Old Downs Residential Care Home in Dartford, Kent. Contracted hours: 33 hours (to include – every other weekend free, as applicable). Work flexibility in accordance with your availability and the service requirements. (Hourly) rate of pay: £13.50

As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you will enjoy being part of an exceptionally supportive team, welcoming you into providing outstanding physical, emotional, and social assistance to the people living at The Old Downs Residential Care Home.

We are currently on the lookout for a positive and motivated individual to join our growing team as a Senior Health Care Assistant. We require someone who is deeply passionate about caring for the elderly. You will also need to have a genuine drive to manage a care team responsible for those using our services, including our residents, their families, and visitors.

Nellsar is committed to developing and training our staff to ensure high quality care is provided to our residents and the successful candidate will receive ongoing training and development with opportunities for progression within the Company, including apprenticeships for new and existing staff.

Being a caring heart, with a passion for making people happy, you will thrive on bringing a smile on our residents’ face, whilst supporting their physical and mental wellbeing. Being a kind, compassionate person who respects people’s personal choice, dignity and privacy, we would be honoured to welcome you in our team.

• Providing leadership to the care staff within the service.
• Providing care in accordance with current best practices, policy and procedures, agreed standards, legislative requirements and relevant regulations, under the direction of the manager.
• Carrying out and supervise the care services within the organisation in accordance with agreed standards.
• Maintaining 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.
• Supervising staff and ensuring that all staff contribute to the efficient running of the service.
• Supporting effective communication with the residents’ families, friends, advocates or representative around all aspects of care and wellbeing.

For more information on the role and to see the job description and person specification, please visit https://recruitment.nellsar.com/senior-healthcare-assistant-residential-job-description/

• Competitive pay and paid training hours
• Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
• Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
• Workplace pension
• ‘Refer a Friend’ payments of up to £1000
• Enhanced DBS paid for by the company on completion of six months employment
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
• 5.6 weeks annual leave
• Working in a supportive team
• The opportunity to help your team develop
• Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline
• Nellsar work uniforms

If you would like to obtain more details about this exciting role, please contact The Old Downs Residential Care Home at: 01474 702 146.

Nellsar has been a family-run Company since 1988 and we provide exceptional care for residents across our group of 13 Care Homes in Kent, Surrey, and Essex. We consistently strive to achieve the highest standards of professional and person-centred care, and we achieve this by promoting the wellbeing and development of our team members. Our values focus on the individual, creating an inclusive environment with both residents and our teams at the heart of what we do every day.

• We are passionate about making every day count and bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their visitors and the team supporting them.
• More information about The Old Downs Residential Care Home is available here https://the-old-downs.nellsar....
• You will be an important member of The Old Downs family, who will support you to reach your goals and feel accomplished by enhancing other people’s quality of life.

Nellsar is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.

Thank you for considering the possibility of joining the Nellsar family, we are looking forward to welcoming you!