Senior Night Care Worker
Listed on 2026-10-10
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Social Work
Home Care -
Healthcare
Caregiver, Healthcare Nursing, Home Care
As a Senior Night Care Worker, you'll play a vital role in ensuring residents receive safe, high-quality care throughout the night. Combining hands-on support with leadership responsibilities, you'll help create a calm, reassuring environment where residents feel comfortable, respected and well cared for.
While the home may be quieter, your role remains essential in supporting residents' wellbeing and leading colleagues to deliver excellent care.
What you will do- Lead night shifts and support colleagues throughout the shift
- Deliver high-quality personal care and support to residents
- Administer medication in line with policies and procedures
- Carry out regular wellbeing and safety checks
- Monitor residents' changing needs and respond appropriately
- Maintain accurate records and complete shift handovers
- Promote a safe, comfortable and supportive environment throughout the night
You will be an experienced care professional with a genuine commitment to supporting older people to live well. You'll be confident leading shifts, supporting colleagues and making sound decisions when required. Strong communication skills, compassion and a calm approach are essential. You must hold an SVQ Level 3 in Social Services and Healthcare and be willing to work towards, or already hold, an SVQ Level 4 qualification.
This role requires membership of the PVG Scheme and registration with the SSSC.
At Cross Reach, you'll be part of a supportive team that values compassion, respect and professional development. We'll help you continue to grow your skills while making a meaningful difference every night.
We also offer you a range of benefits that you would expect from an organisation that support others.
Firstly, there is access to a wide range of exclusive retail and leisure discounts through our rewards scheme and the Blue Light Discount card. We also ensure that your future and that of your loved ones is secured with a generous contributory pension plan and death in service benefit. Balancing work and family are made easier with our suite of enhanced family friendly policies and your health and wellness are prioritised with access to our health cash plan, giving you cash back for a wide range of health treatments.
We even have access to a care concierge service to assist you with life's challenges, providing invaluable support when you need it most.
But we also know that your training and development is important to you, and as well as a contribution to your professional membership fees, we are keen to support you in making the right steps to learn, grow and develop in ways that are right for you.
Cross Reach has been at the forefront of high quality social care for over 150 years, providing loving care to people of all ages and supporting them to live life to the full whatever their circumstances. During that time, we have worked hard to understand the needs of the people who turn to us for help and with them have been at the forefront of pioneering services which have literally changed thousands of lives for the better.
Today we are one of the largest social care providers in Scotland, with experience across a broad range of services. We are still growing, learning, and improving, thanks to the incredible people we have the privilege to support, and all those who support us. We are part of the Church of Scotland and aim to provide social care services and specialist resources in Christ’s name to further the caring work of the Church to people in challenging circumstances.
As we do our work in Christ’s name the job you have applied for requires you to have a Christian faith and be able to work within and uphold our Christian Ethos. This is an Occupational Requirement under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to…
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