Advantage Angels
Senior Healthcare Assistant
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Senior Healthcare Assistant | Flexible Shifts | £17–£23 per hour
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Senior Care Assistant to join our agency care home team. The successful candidate will play a vital role in providing high-quality care to our residents, supporting their daily needs, and supervising junior staff. This position offers an opportunity to lead with compassion and professionalism, ensuring a safe and comfortable environment for all residents.
Rates of pay range from £17–£23 per hour depending on shift pattern, with enhanced rates for weekends and bank holidays.
Duties include
- Deliver personalised care in accordance with individual care plans, ensuring residents' dignity and independence are maintained.
- Supervise and support junior care staff, fostering a positive team environment through effective leadership.
- Assist residents with daily activities such as mobility, personal hygiene, medication management, and meal preparation.
- Maintain accurate documentation of care provided, including updates to care plans and incident reports.
- Communicate effectively with residents, families, and multidisciplinary teams to ensure holistic care delivery.
- Support residents' emotional well-being through companionship and engaging activities.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, including infection control procedures.
- Contribute to the organisation's training programmes by sharing expertise in senior care practices.
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Experience
- Previous experience working within a care home environment specialising in senior care is essential.
- Proven supervising experience demonstrating leadership skills within a healthcare setting.
- Familiarity with creating and implementing care plans tailored to individual needs.
- Strong communication skills to liaise effectively with residents, families, and team members.
- Competence in using IT systems for documentation and reporting purposes.
- Valid driving licence is desirable.
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Advantage Angels is a trusted UK healthcare staffing agency and Private Nursing provider with over 10 years of experience supporting care homes, nursing homes and healthcare organisations nationwide.
For more than a decade, we have delivered reliable, compliant and high-quality healthcare professionals to some of the UK’s leading care home providers. Our long-standing partnerships are built on consistency, transparency and a commitment to raising standards in care delivery.
We understand that healthcare providers need more than just agency cover they need dependable, fully vetted professionals who uphold the highest standards of clinical practice.
That is why Advantage Angels has become a preferred healthcare staffing agency for established care organisations across the UK.
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