Senior Healthcare Assistant, Dartford Kent

Senior Healthcare Assistant – Sonya Lodge Care Home

Location: Sonya Lodge Care Home, 10 High Road, Wilmington, Dartford DA2 7EG

Contracted hours: 44 hours (to include – every other weekend free, as applicable)

Hourly rate: From £13.50

As a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you will enjoy being part of an exceptionally supportive team, welcoming you into providing outstanding physical, emotional, and social assistance to the people living at Sonya Lodge Care Home.

We are currently on the lookout for a positive and motivated individual who is deeply passionate about caring for the elderly. You will also need to have a genuine drive to manage a care team responsible for those using our services, including our residents, their families, and visitors.

Nellsar is committed to developing and training our staff to ensure high‑quality care is provided to our residents. The successful candidate will receive ongoing training and development with opportunities for progression within the Company, including apprenticeships for new and existing staff.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing leadership to the care staff within the service.
• Providing care in accordance with current best practices, policy and procedures, agreed standards, legislative requirements and relevant regulations, under the direction of the manager.
• Carrying out and supervising the care services within the organisation in accordance with agreed standards.
• Maintaining skills at a current level, and undertaking such training and development as may, from time‑to‑time, be required to keep practices up to date.
• Supervising staff and ensuring that all staff contribute to the efficient running of the service.
• Supporting effective communication with the residents’ families, friends, advocates or representative around all aspects of care and wellbeing.

What We Offer

• Competitive pay and paid training hours
• Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
• Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
• Workplace pension
• ‘Refer a Friend’ payments of up to £1,000
• Longevity payment award scheme
• Enhanced DBS paid for by the company on completion of six months employment
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
• 5.6 weeks annual leave
• Working in a supportive team
• The opportunity to help your team develop
• Nellsar work uniforms

For more details about this role, please contact Sonya Lodge Care Home at: 01322 289 768.

About the Mission

• We are passionate about making every day count and bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their visitors and the team supporting them.
• More information about Sonya Lodge Care Home is available at https://sonya-lodge.nellsar.co…
• You will be an important member of the Sonya Lodge family, who will support you to reach your goals and feel accomplished by enhancing other people’s quality of life.

Nellsar is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.

Thank you for considering the possibility of joining the Nellsar family, we look forward to welcoming you!