Senior Care Assistant in Whitstable

If your proven experience of caring for older people includes leading shifts, and you're looking for a rewarding role that comes with excellent training and great opportunities for personal development, join Care UK as a Senior Care Assistant and make a real difference.

Being a Senior Care Assistant at Care UK means being passionate about what you do, flexible in your approach, and great at building rapport with everyone you deal with. You will inspire professionalism, cope with difficult situations using tact and diplomacy, and take responsibility for resolving them. Collaboration and sharing information and ideas are key, as is raising standards through innovation. It is a privilege to be trusted to look after others.

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Care Assistant, you will provide leadership and support for a care team, act as a role model for good practice, and champion residents' dignity and safety. Your responsibilities will include:

• Regularly assessing, monitoring, and reviewing day-to-day processes and implementing improvements where required.
• Ensuring clear and accurate records and communication systems relating to clinical and care delivery are properly maintained and effectively used.

Put simply, it’s about making a real difference.

What you’ll need

An NVQ and relevant experience is essential, including a good understanding of care planning processes and a proven ability to write concise care plans. We are looking for individuals who are well-organised, possess excellent supervisory skills, and are experienced in planning, allocating, and delegating work appropriately. Experience in contributing to, monitoring, and implementing changes that improve outcomes for residents is also important. Above all, you should have a natural ability to help make the lives of others more fulfilling and want to work in an environment that can be hard, but also fun and rewarding.

The benefits

• Competitive rates of pay - we continuously review pay in your local market.
• Opportunities to progress through our personalised career paths into more senior and management roles whilst growing your earnings.
• Earn whilst you learn and take on a variety of apprenticeships applicable to your role enabling you to increase your pay once achieved.
• Competitive refer a friend scheme of up to £1000 depending on role.
• Quality and free training to help develop and enhance your skills.
• Bank holiday enhancements.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Flexible hours, including day, night or weekend shifts.
• Free DBS.
• Thousands of online and in-store discounts across big known retailers.
• Employee Assistance Programme - Immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Care UK is one of the UK’s leading care home providers, running over 120 homes and day clubs across the UK that provide residential, nursing, dementia, and end-of-life care for older people. Our goal is to help every employee fulfil their potential by providing first-class training and support.

Where you’ll work

Harrier Lodge care home, due to open in December 2018, is a 65 bed care home providing nursing and residential care, as well as specialist care for people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Working with Care UK, you will assist our residents in everyday life, providing support and companionship. Building relationships and acting as a companion is an extremely rewarding part of your role.

Care UK is committed to ensuring that it employs people with the right mix of talent, skills, and potential and will assess every applicant fairly regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependents, age, physical/mental disability, or offending background. Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from working with us; it will depend on the nature of the role and background of any offence.