Urgently seeking Senior Care Assistant within the Nottinghamshire Area.
We need an experienced Senior Care Assistant that will be able to assist an existing team within a medium sized home based in Eastwood.
You will be expected to carry out the following key responsibilities:
• Providing the highest level of personal care and attention to the service users, following care plans carefully whilst ensuring that all contact is polite, friendly, warm and supportive.
• Ensuring adherence to all aspects of Health and Safety including COSSH, Food Hygiene and Infection control.
• Administering medication to service users, accurately maintaining appropriate records for both.
• To liaise with other care professionals relating to the care needs of the residents.
• To always respect and maintain confidentiality of resident’s personal information, this includes resident’s behaviour and actions and any incidents that may occur during their day-to-day care.
• Encourage, assist and support service users to participate in leisure activities, ensuring their social and emotional needs are met. This also includes escorting residents to outside appointments and leisure outings.
• Responsible for undertaking light cleaning duties as needed and ensuring that the Home is kept clean, pleasant and welcoming always.
To be suitable for this position you must have:
– An enhanced DBS dated within the last 12 months
– Have a referenceable work history
– Up to date Infection Control, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults and Moving & Handling training
– At least 3 months experience within a similar setting
If you do not have a valid DBS and/or training, do not worry as we can help you with this with training available online at a subsidised fee and the certificates are yours to keep!