Senior Care Assistant - Nights

At Avery Healthcare we support the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support our teams every step of the way. As a Senior Care Assistant – Nights at Westwood Care Home in Sheringham you will make a positive impact on residents’ lives every day with compassion and dedication. We are committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment with opportunities for learning and career development.

Your focus as a Senior Care Assistant will be to support and work alongside the Care team to deliver high standards of personal care, providing a safe, caring, innovative, open, supportive, and inclusive environment for residents, visitors and staff.

• Monitor the wellbeing of each resident, being aware of any change impacting on care and care plans, ensuring that new needs are met, and written records are amended to reflect any variation.
• Be involved in the person‑centred care planning process, by implementing, monitoring, and undertaking monthly evaluations.
• Support residents with their medication requirements.
• Undertake staff supervisions and support staff with their development where required.
• Act as a key point of contact with residents, their relatives and visitors, as well as health and social care professionals involved in their wellbeing, ensuring that any reasonable requests are acted upon and concerns or complaints are escalated.

To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do.

• NVQ 3 or equivalent in care for care homes.
• 2 years experience working in a similar care environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Positive attitude to supporting and nurturing residents and staff.
• Responsive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.

• A DBS Disclosure check – cost met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure will be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.