Senior Care Assistant ( Days or Nights )

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Care Assistant to join the magnificent, experienced team, working days or nights, at our client’s wonderful residential care home in the friendly, scenic village of Great Oxendon.

Are you looking for a fulfilling and rewarding role where every day you can go home feeling you’ve made a difference?

The successful applicant will have an NVQ level 3 Health & Social Care or equivalent.

Must have the right to work in the UK!

Driving licence preferred due to the location of the home.

Our client’s care home is an attractive country house and provides personal and dementia care for 45 residents. All bedrooms have ensuite facilities, many of which are wet rooms. Since our client acquired this home, all bedrooms and communal areas have been refurbished, including the grand central staircase. The home has also been sympathetically enlarged four times in order to provide additional communal rooms and bedrooms and to improve the home’s existing bedrooms, by reconfiguring them to make them larger and to add ensuite facilities or wet rooms to them. The exterior of the home has also been totally remodelled with all new windows, all walls being rendered and painted, new car parking areas created, new boundary walls and fences and significant landscaping of the large gardens. They have also obtained registration as a specialist provider of dementia care at this home since acquiring it. It has been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in the latest report.

The management team are supported by the qualified and experienced team of carers including the specialist nurses. The dream team are dedicated to providing their duties to the best of their ability, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They provide both short-term and long-term residential care for the elderly and those living with dementia, as well as respite care for both elderly people and their carers. They are committed to making a meaningful difference to the lives of the residents who live at the care home surrounded by fantastic country views in Great Oxendon, Northamptonshire.

About the Role

• Leading our team to support the physical, emotional and social wellbeing of our residents by providing the highest standard of care
• Supporting our carers to provide personal care and support with daily activities such as washing, dressing and eating
• Administering medication
• Writing and updating care plans, and keeping accurate daily records
• Promoting our resident’s choice, dignity and independence and all times

Schedule:

• 12-hour shift
• Monday to Friday, including alternate weekends.

Working Hours: Shifts – 7am-7pm (Days), 7pm-7am (Nights).

If you believe this is the position for you and you would be a great addition to their team, please apply now!

About Us – Zoop Recruitment are an independent Recruitment Specialist based in the East Midlands, we pride ourselves on providing the highest quality of staff. If this job role doesn’t quite suit your requirements, please get in touch to see what other opportunities we have available, or visit our website on: www.zooprecruitment.co.uk