Senior Care Assistant (Nights)

We are recruiting for Night Senior Care Assistants (44 Hours / 33 hours per week) with a salary of £26,886.99 FTE

About the role 

Join us as a Senior Care Assistant / Team Leader at Anchor to make a real and positive difference to the lives of older people. 

Key responsibilities 

• Leading the shift, assessing priorities, ensuring proper allocation of colleagues, adequate staffing and completion of all relevant documentation throughout your shift. 
• Administering, recording and ordering medication. 
• Supporting good nutritional and hydration at all times. 
• Reviewing individual care needs, ensuring residents’ plans are maintained accurately and care is delivered accordingly. 
• Supervising and coaching care assistants to carry out their roles., managing any performance concerns if they arise. 
• Liaising with external health and social care providers and any stakeholders to ensure resident welfare needs are met.  
• Having good oversight of policies relating  to back care, plus health and safety. 
• Delivering hands-on care as part of the allocation, supporting key workers for named customers. 

What you’ll need 

We’re looking for someone who is resident-focused, committed to delivering exceptional care and has a strong attention to detail. This role will also give you the opportunity to use all your management skills. You’ll require a NCFE Certificate Level 2 and 3 in handling medication and you will ideally hold a NVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, and have experience at that level or be willing to undertake the Level 3 qualification. You will be passionate in ensuring people enjoy living their later years with us. 

The Manor House care home in Knaresborough is a contemporary residential care home set in luxurious and comfortable surroundings. Meticulously finished to a very high standard offering first class residential and dementia care for up to 75 residents.

• 9.7 star rating on carehome.co.uk
• CQC Rating 'GOOD'
• 2 General Residential Units / 1 Dementia Unit within the home

As England’s largest not-for-profit provider of care and housing for older people, we’re able to negotiate great deals and benefits for our people. Here are just a few of the things you’ll get when you work with Anchor.

• Exclusive discounts on high-street shopping

• 20% off mobile phone contracts

• Cashback on dental and medical expenses

• Discounted Private Medical rates

• Lead Adult Care worker level 3 qualification 

Click here to find out more about our full benefits and wellbeing package (the link is https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ )