Senior Care Assistant – Nights

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Full time
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Job offered by: NHS
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This is a role as a Senior Care Assistant at Avery Healthcare, a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK. The role involves supporting and working alongside the care team to deliver high standards of personal care, providing a safe, caring, and inclusive environment for residents, visitors, and staff. The successful candidate will live the company's values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable.

Main duties of the job As a Senior Care Assistant, your focus will be to support and work alongside the Care team to deliver high standards of personal care, providing a safe, caring, innovative, open, supportive, and inclusive environment for residents, visitors and staff. Other responsibilities will include monitoring the wellbeing of each resident, being involved in the person-centred care planning process, supporting residents with their medication requirements, and undertaking staff supervisions and supporting staff with their development.

About us Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are committed to creating meaningful lives together, offering exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes, and building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

Job responsibilities Your focus as a Senior Care Assistant will be to support and work alongside the Care team to deliver high standards of personal care, providing a safe, caring, innovative, open, supportive, and inclusive environment for residents, visitors, and staff.

Other responsibilities will include:

Monitoring the wellbeing of each resident, 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.

Being involved in the person-centred care planning process, by implementing, monitoring, and undertaking monthly evaluations.

Supporting residents with their medication requirements.

Undertaking staff supervisions and supporting staff with their development where required.

Acting as a key point for contact with residents, 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.

About you To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.

Our ideal candidate must:

Have an NVQ 3 or equivalent in care for care homes.

Have 2 years experience working in a similar care environment.

Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.

Have a positive attitude to both supporting and nurturing residents and staff.

Be responsive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.

Please note this role will require:

A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.

Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Person Specification Qualifications

To be successful, you must have an NVQ 3 or equivalent in care for care homes, 2 years' experience working in a similar care environment, the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, a positive attitude to supporting and nurturing residents and staff, and be responsive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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