Meridian Business Support Hiring for Senior Care Assistant at Gatley Full Time

Meridian is looking for permanent full time senior care assistants to join a dementia-friendly care home located in Gatley, Stockport SK8

Salary:                  £24,984.96 per annum
Hours:                   8am – 8pm on a rolling rota of 3 shift on 3 shifts off

Benefits:              An hourly rate of pay that is significantly higher than the industry average for care workers, plus a bonus paid for any overtime shifts worked
28 days holiday, with an additional day holiday for your birthday (after 1 years’ service)

+ Much more including training and career development

You will be required to professionally lead the care team during any span of duty, ensuring that a safe, effective, and efficient care service is maintained which meets the needs of residents and purchasers.

Key Responsibilities

• To ensure the administration and recording of medication is in line with prescriptions, company care standards and legislative requirements.
• To liaise with the Deputy Manager to ensure that person centered support plans are created and maintained.
• Review care and support plans ensuring accurate records are kept and that support plans are implemented.
• To set and maintain a high standard of care and support to residents in the home.
• To liaise with General Practitioners and other professionals
• To participate in any audits both internal and external, of the service and ensure that action plans are implemented.
• To work collaboratively with team members to achieve person centered support plans and best practice.
• Must have good understanding of the CQC standards and the KLOE’s.
• To assist residents in all aspects of their care needs, physical, emotional, and spiritual, ensuring residents retain their comfort and dignity.
• To participate in any Audit/Quality assurance programmes within the home and assist with the evaluation of own practice.

Main Duties

• To take the lead in a key area within the home, as identified with your Manager.
• To ensure preparation, implementation, review, and update of all resident’s person-centered support plans in line with their personal wishes, preferences, dignity, and privacy.
• Encourage all residents to be involved in activities within/outside the home by welcoming and encouraging their participation so that they remain emotionally and intellectually stimulated.
• Delivering ‘on the job’ training to all staff.
• Ensure a safe environment is always maintained.
• To develop and promote good communication with resident, relatives, and staff.
• Support and work closely with families and friends ensuring that professional and emotion support is given.
• Ensure that holistic assessments are carried out when residents are admitted to the home e.g., nutritional, continence, risks etc.
• To ensure that the home environment and its equipment is maintained to a high standard.
• Facilitate regular one to ones and team meetings for staff.
• Ensure staff have an annual appraisal.
• Encourage an open and honest culture, and provide support, encouragement and mentoring to all staff.
• Undertake on call duties as required by the Company.
• Ensure correct and diligent use of PPE and infection control procedures.
• Work collectively as a team and continuously promote and aim to improve care standards in accordance with the companies 10 key behaviours and legislation.
• Any other duties required in accordance with the role, home requirements and service delivery.

Key Requirements

• Able to demonstrate the 10 key behaviours: be respectful, professional, reliable, approachable & friendly, a good communicator, positive, caring, good timekeeper, a team player and to be presentable.
• To promote equality and diversity within the company
• To provide person centred care to meet diverse resident’s needs.
• To be flexible and adaptable to the requirements of the service.
• To constantly ask yourself, “am I delivering, supporting this resident the same way I would want my loved one to be treated?”.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications
Level 2 in Health & Social Care and at least 2 years’ experience working in a paid care role.
Medication trained 
Knowledge
Needs of older people Social/Emotional/Personal
Knowledge of CQC standards and KLOES
Must be prepared to attend such training sessions as are deemed necessary by management.
Experience / Skills
Previous experience in a care related role.
Must have demonstrated the ability to work both as a team member and on own initiative.
Must be able to demonstrate literacy and numeracy skills.
Good level of IT skills
Able to organize and complete routine tasks to set standards.
Awareness of the need to respect resident’s privacy and individuality.

Personal
Good verbal and written communication skills
To be friendly, helpful, and courteous.
To have a liking for older people and the ability to relate to them in a sensitive manner.
To have a positive attitude and commitment to high standards of care.
Ability to work shifts, (including evenings, weekends, and public holidays).

If you are a senior care assistant and looking for a new exciting and rewarding opportunity please apply to this job advert to be contacted by one of Meridian’s specialist consultants.