Senior Care Assistant

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Senior Care Assistant - day shifts - immediate start in Golders Green, NW11

Ventry Care is recruiting Senior Care Assistants to our residential care home. We care for older persons / older persons living with dementia.

Rate from £14.00 per hour, plus great benefits and career development to management for candidates who can excel in the role. The ability to work flexibly around your family or other commitments, we can offer between 24 and 36 hours per week 4 to 5 days.

• To run a shift to ensure the care needs of our service users are met; organising your staff team around medication, personal care, continence, moving and handling, mealtime support, social activities, and those other tasks required.
• To build strong professional relationships with all those around you; making sure family and friends feel welcomed, that health care professionals are kept well-informed, and that you are keeping your manager up to speed with residents needs and progress.
• To be a team player, following guidelines and policies, and having good written and "IT and systems" knowledge to support residents care plans and record keeping. We use care management software, and smartphone + tablet hardware, to record the care provided to our residents.
• To help our residents live a full life; to be more independent, to enjoy their daily activities, and to exercise choice in their day-to-day living.
• To make all the residents you care for feel safe, comfortable and secure. In other words, you will make them feel right at home.

• Pay rates start at £14.00 per hour, and increasing depending on your experience and qualifications.
• Paid holiday to 28 days.
• Staff recognition scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Assistance with London transport costs.
• Assistance with London accommodation costs.
• Workplace pension contributions through NEST.
• Free uniform.
• Paid mandatory training, and the opportunity for ongoing specialist training, e.g.advanced food hygiene / diabetes / dementia, to ensure you can professionally develop yourself, and best meet the care needs of this service user group.
• £350.00
  * signing-on bonus / £250.00
  * annual retention bonus / unlimited £250.00
  * refer a friend scheme.
• Career advancement opportunities to ensure you can enjoy a fulfilling career in this sector.
• Long service awards.

You will have experience working with older people in residential care, you are willing to learn, are flexible, patient, caring, organised, enthusiastic, and great with people.

You will have completed your QCF 1-5 (equivalent NVQ 2 or 3 in Care).

Please forward your CV with full contact details including postal and email address.

If successful we will complete your recruitment, induction / training, and get you started as soon as possible.

If you would like a meaningful career making a positive impact to the lives of those who require care and support, then please apply now!

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