Senior Care Assistant - Nights in Broomfield

At Avery Healthcare, we are dedicated to supporting the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support our teams, helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. Our close-knit team values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care. We are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award-winning team as a Senior Care Assistant at Miramar Care Home in Kent. Your focus will be to support the Care team in delivering high standards of personal care and to provide a safe, caring, innovative, open, supportive, and inclusive environment for residents, visitors and staff.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the wellbeing of each resident, be aware of changes impacting care and care plans, ensure new needs are met, and amend written records 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 reasonable requests are acted upon and concerns or complaints are escalated.

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

Qualifications

• Have an NVQ 3 or equivalent in care for care homes.
• Have 2 years' experience working in a similar care environment.
• Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Have a positive attitude to supporting and nurturing residents and staff.
• Be responsive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities.

At Avery, we are not just one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes — we are a place where people love to work. We believe that the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and we are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for our residents and our team alike. With a vision of "creating meaningful lives together," we proudly offer exceptional care across our growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

Additional information

• Please note this role will require: a DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
• This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.