Female Night Healthcare Assistant

Female Night Healthcare Assistant - Lancashire

Location:

Preston

Hours:

37.5 hours per week
Pay Rate: £13.21 per hour, with £1 extra on Bank Holidays and Weekends.

• Working with other team members to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional recovery. Ensuring that rehabilitation goals, strategies and procedures are implemented and reinforced.
• Carrying out personal care duties with close supervision and making judgements involving straightforward facts or situations.
• Monitoring the physical and emotional well‑being of all clients to be aware of changes and to alert senior colleagues, as necessary. Assisting in maintaining morale of clients by communication and contact – achieved by talking and working with them.
• Ensuring accurate reporting and documentation.
• Reviewing and making suggestions to enhance the individuals’ experience. Challenging practice as appropriate and supporting junior and new staff.
• Promoting choice in the delivery of care and support. Enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by the individual and/or their representatives.
• Supporting service users to have their views and experiences considered in the way the service is provided and delivered.
• Having a personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources. This includes safeguarding, handling cash and service users’ valuables.
• Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service. The post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally take on reasonable additional tasks.

For an insight into what the role would entail, please watch our video detailing a day in the life of one of our Support Workers at Brainkind.

• Proven experience of working within a team.
• Care delivery experience.
• Willing to provide personal care.
• Good communication skills.
• Numeracy and literacy skills.
• IT skills including accessing and using the internet, email and Word.

• Competitive rate of £13.21 per hour with £1 extra on a Bank Holiday and Weekend.
• 33 days Annual Leave.
• Buy/sell up to 5 days Annual Leave each year.
• Simply Health Plan – helps to cover the cost of routine healthcare treatments. Further information can be found at
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
• Excellent training and support.
• Company Pension.
• Group life assurance.
• Eye voucher scheme.
• Long service and staff awards.
• Free parking.

Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.