We are currently recruiting for a Senior Care Assistant (days) to professionally and thoughtfully deliver care during any span of duty, ensuring that a safe, effective and efficient care service is maintained which meets the needs of our residents. To provide care to residents in accordance with their individually assessed needs to a high standard.

You must have the following qualifications

• NVQ Level 3/Diploma in Health and Social Care (or working towards)

We are looking for someone with the following experience

• Experience of working with older people
• Knowledge and use of clinical assessment tools e.g. Waterlow, MUST
• Understand care planning processes and have experience of writing care plans
• Experience of leading a shift

We are looking for someone with the following technical skills

• Good supervisory skills
• Good organisational skills
• Good communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to contribute to, monitor and implement changes that improvement service delivery and outcomes for residents
• Ability to plan allocate and delegate work appropriately

The ideal candidate will have these personal qualities

• Ability to be flexible with regard to working hours
• Ability to inspire professionalism
• Ability to be flexible with regard to working hours
• Builds effective and credible relationships both internally and externally
• Works collaboratively with others sharing ideas and information at all times
• Effectively builds trust with a consistent approach between actions and words
• Has the ability to raise standards through innovation and new ideas
• Will take responsibility for issues and resolve them
• Able to cope in difficult situations with tact and diplomacy
• Ability to build rapport and positively influence others
• Ability to inspire professionalism

This job description is subject to regular review and appropriate modification.