Nellsar Careers
Senior Health Care Assistant, Deal Kent
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Job Vacancy: Senior Healthcare Assistant (Nursing)
Location: St Winifred's Care Centre, 236 London Road, Deal, Kent CT14 9PP
Contracted hours: 44 hours (to include – every other weekend free, as applicable)
(Hourly) rate of pay: £14.05
As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you will enjoy being part of an exceptionally supportive team, welcoming you into providing outstanding physical, emotional, and social assistance to the people living at St Winifred's Care Home.
We are currently on the lookout for a positive and motivated individual to join our growing team as a Senior Health Care Assistant. We are looking for someone who is deeply passionate about caring for the elderly. You will also need to have a genuine drive to manage a care team responsible for those using our services, including our residents, their families and visitors.
The perfect role for you
Being a caring heart, with a passion for making people happy, you will thrive on bringing a smile on our residents’ face, whilst supporting their physical and mental wellbeing. Being a kind, compassionate person who respects people’s personal choice, dignity and privacy, we would be honoured to welcome you in our team.
Nellsar is committed to developing and training our staff to ensure high quality care is provided to our residents and the successful candidate will receive ongoing training and development with opportunities for progression within the Company, including apprenticeships for new and existing staff.
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Responsibilities
The Senior Healthcare Assistant responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Providing care in accordance with current best practices, policy and procedures, agreed standards, legislative requirements and relevant regulations, under the direction of the manager.
- Providing leadership to the care staff within the service.
- Undertaking simple wound dressings following completion of specialised training.
- Undertaking the monitoring of vital signs (BP, pulse, respirations, temperature, oxygen saturations and neurological observations.
- Reviewing care plans and risk assessments and completing documentation for new admissions. Report all concerns to management.
- Undertaking all aspects of medicine management in line with legal, professional and regulatory requirements.
For more information on the role and to see the job description and person specification, please visit – https://recruitment.nellsar.com/senior-healthcare-assistant-job-description/
What we offer in return to your dedication:
- Competitive pay and paid training hours
- Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
- Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
- Workplace pension
- ‘Refer a Friend’ payments of up to £1000
- Enhanced DBS paid for by the company
- Comprehensive induction programme
- Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
- 5.6 weeks annual leave
- Working in a supportive team
- The opportunity to help your team develop
- Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline
- Nellsar work uniforms
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Why Choose Us?
Nellsar has been a family-run Company since 1988 and we provide exceptional care for residents across our group of 13 Care Homes in Kent, Surrey, and Essex. We consistently strive to achieve the highest standards of professional and person-centred care, and we achieve this by promoting the wellbeing and development of our team members. Our values focus on the individual, creating an inclusive environment with both residents and our teams at the heart of what we do every day.
It’s our mission at Nellsar to ensure that people live life to the full
- We are passionate about making every day count and bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their visitors and the team supporting them.
Nellsar is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.
Thank you for considering the possibility of joining the Nellsar family, we are looking forward to welcoming you!
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