Senior Care and Support Assistant

Senior Care and Support Assistant

Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, GB, HP21 7RA

Department: Health and Social Care (Qualified and Non-Qualifie)

Operation: Sanctuary Supported Living

Salary: £14.77 per hour (37.5 hours per week)

Your role

• Lead a team of Care and Support Assistants to ensure customers receive the best support
• Provide personal care and encourage independence by building confidence and self-esteem
• Promote safe practices, complete risk assessments and manage safeguarding to keep customers safe
• Build positive relationships with customers and colleagues
• Carry out team supervisions
• Create and update electronic care and support plans
• Experience supervising people is desirable
• Recent experience supporting vulnerable people in a similar role
• NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or willingness to work towards it
• Personalised approach to care with strong interpersonal skills
• Enthusiastic and flexible approach
• Strong organisational skills and basic literacy and numeracy
• Proficient technology/IT skills (Microsoft Office and similar)

Your rewards

You deserve more than the basics. That's why, alongside 33 days' annual leave pro rata (rising to 38, including bank holidays), occupational sick pay linked to length of service, and a contributory pension scheme, we've created a package to help you thrive:

• Health and wellbeing support - including Aviva Digicare+ with virtual GP appointments, plus an Employee Assistance Programme offering medical, financial, and legal advice, as well as short-term counselling
• Company-paid life insurance
• Parental leave arrangements and annual leave purchase scheme
• Company-funded training and ongoing career development opportunities
• Flexible working options and inclusive culture where everyone belongs, supported by our staff networks including PRISM, Disability, Race Equality and Parent networks
• Exclusive retail discounts, Cycle to Work, and salary sacrifice arrangements

Inclusion is one of our core values

We're committed to being a diverse and inclusive organisation where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process in line with our Disability Confident employer status.

Building Equality and Diversity

Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers. We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for. Sanctuary Supported Living is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association and Sanctuary Home Care Limited, both exempt charities.