Senior Care Assistant

This role as a Senior Care Assistant at Avery Healthcare in Nuthall, Nottinghamshire involves providing high-quality personal care and support to residents, while also taking on supervisory responsibilities. The ideal candidate will have relevant qualifications and experience in a similar care environment, as well as strong communication skills and a positive, caring attitude.

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. This will involve monitoring resident wellbeing, contributing to care planning, supporting with medication, and supervising and developing other staff members. You'll need to be caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.

About us

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with a vision of 'creating meaningful lives together'. They are committed to offering exceptional care and creating a supportive, inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered.

Package description

Shift details: Days Mon to Friday with alternative weekends.

About the role

We are all about supporting the people who care for our residents. We know how hard our teams work, and we're here to celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you'll be making a positive impact on residents' lives every day; your compassion and dedication truly make a difference. We're committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. And as part of our close-knit team, you'll experience a culture that values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We're now looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award winning team as a Senior Care Assistant at Alder House Care Home in Nottinghamshire. If this sounds like the place for you, we'd love to hear from you!

Job responsibilities

• Monitoring the wellbeing of each resident, being aware of any change impacting their 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 of 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.

Qualifications and experience

• 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. Additional requirements
  • A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
  • Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
  Legal and compliance

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemptions 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.

  This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.