Nellsar Careers
Senior Healthcare Assistant Nights, Maidstone Kent
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Job Vacancy: Senior Healthcare Assistant Nights
Location: Lulworth House Residential Care Home in Maidstone, Kent
Contracted hours: 33 hours (to include – every other weekend free, as applicable), Work flexibility in accordance with your availability and the service requirements
(Hourly) rate of pay: From £13.50
Please note that once you submit your application, you’ll receive an email asking for your response to proceed to the next stages, so be sure to check your junk email folder regularly.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced and confident Night Senior who can lead by example and provide a high standard of care throughout the night.
The successful candidate will:
- Have previous experience in a senior care role and be confident leading a team by example.
- Have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate effectively with residents, colleagues, and external professionals.
- Have a strong understanding of safe and effective medication management and be confident taking responsibility for medication administration and related procedures.
- Be confident working independently and able to use their own initiative, particularly in the absence of a Deputy Manager or Registered Manager during the night shift.
- Be able to make appropriate decisions, respond calmly to situations that arise, and escalate concerns when required.
- Provide clear, accurate, and comprehensive handovers to ensure continuity of care between shifts.
- Maintain accurate records and reporting, ensuring any incidents, concerns, or changes in residents' needs are appropriately documented and communicated.
- Be committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care and supporting the wider night team to maintain a safe and positive environment for residents.
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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. You will have the opportunity to excel whilst:
Responsibilities
- Providing leadership to the care staff within the service.
- Providing care in accordance with current best practices, policy and procedures, agreed standards, legislative requirements, and relevant regulations, under the direction of the manager.
- Carrying out and supervising the care services within the organisation in accordance with agreed standards.
- Maintaining skills at a current level, and undertake such training and development as may, from time-to-time, be required to maintain practices as up to date.
- Supervising staff and ensuring that all staff contribute to the efficient running of the service.
- Supporting effective communication with the residents’ families, friends, advocates, or representative around all aspects of care and wellbeing.
What We Offer
For more information on the role and to see the job description and person specification, please visit – https://recruitment.nellsar.com/senior-healthcare-assistant-residential-job-description/
- 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 on completion of six months employment
- 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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If you would like to obtain more details about this exciting role, please contact Lulworth House Residential Care Home at: 01622 683 231.
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.
- More information about Lulworth House Residential Care Home is available here https://lulworth-house.nellsar...
- You will be an important member of the Lulworth House family, who will support you to reach your goals and feel accomplished by enhancing other people’s quality of life.
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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