Senior Care Assistant

As a Senior Care Assistant/Care Team Leader you will provide person centred care and support to assist residents to maintain their independence including personal care, mealtimes, and activities whilst also providing a listening ear to those who need it most. You will also be responsible for dispensing medication and using your management skills to ensure a high level of quality care is being delivered.

Key Responsibilities

• Helping our residents with personal support and care.
• Administration and monitoring of medications to residents.
• Maintaining care plans
• Support in training and supervision of junior and new staff members in all aspects of their work in the care centre, under the supervision of senior staff members
• Assist service users in all aspects of their care needs (e.g. physical, emotional and spiritual). Provide attention when needed whilst ensuring service users retain their comfort and dignity.
• Carry out regular checks on service users at intervals determined by senior staff members.

Essential Skills

• An NVQ2 is essential but must be willing to work towards an NVQ3
• Prior care experience preferred
• Undergone Medication training
• Care planning
• Communication Skills for attending MDT Meetings

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Graduate
Part-time hours: 48 per week

Salary: £17.00-£20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexitime

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Norwich: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• providing care: 1 year (preferred)
• supervisory: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)
• NVQ Level 2 Health & Social Care (preferred)

Work Location: In person