Careers

Senior Care Assistant (Days)

About The Role

Located in Sleaford, Lincolnshire situated on London Road, the home will be next to a Co-op supermarket and other accessible amenities for our residents, including a community centre and a newly developed coffee shop.

This luxury 67 bedroomed care home will include facilities such as an in-house bar, restaurant standard dining rooms, a full beauty salon, and hairdressing room, a cinema, a convenience store, and outdoor terraces on each floor. The home will offer large, beautiful gardens, with a bowling green, allotments, and private seating areas for family, friends, and residents to enjoy.

We pride ourselves in giving the highest quality of person centred care, and maintaining dignity and respect for our residents, which is shown in the high staff to resident ratio.

Sleaford Care home are recruiting a Senior Night Care Assistant

12 hour shifts

£13.40 per hour

Free DBS check*

This role will include some weekend work

The role of a Senior Care Assistant is to ensure the needs of the residents are met in a person-centred way that respects their dignity and promotes independence.

It is essential that all our staff are;

Flexible, caring and compassionate.
Positive, self-motivated and organised.
Willing to undertake any training necessary to develop skills and competency relevant to the role.
Sensitive to the needs of others.
An active team player and must be able to work on own initiative.
Possess good communication skills with colleagues and residents.

Overview of Job Description

To either be in overall charge of an entire speciality or to support the person in overall charge in all aspects of the management of the home.
To promote the philosophy of Privacy, dignity, independence, choice, rights and fulfilment for all of our clients, treating everyone with respect.
To support and guide Care assistants to provide personal care and support residents with a wide range of needs and disabilities.
To induct, train and supervise care assistants as required.
To safely administer medications to those in your care, using the appropriate documentation in accordance with MAR charts and Yorkare Homes policies.
To report and record in the appropriate manner any information considered to be important. Read and write reports in an accurate and timely fashion using the computer systems.
To deal with any queries or worries expressed by residents/relatives/visitors and forward on to senior managers if unable to resolve.

In return the company will offer you: