Senior Care Assistant

About us

We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.
Our Care team is friendly and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide. We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to peoples’ lives, each and every day.
Join our Care team as a Senior Care Assistant
Working in Care can be demanding, but our colleagues are always kind and compassionate no matter what challenges they encounter. Working as a Senior Care Assistant is not only varied and interesting, it's incredibly rewarding. As part of our team you will be doing work you can be proud of, ensuring the safety and happiness of our customers in their home.
We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The Role

We have a fantastic opportunity in Hitchin for someone to join us in the position of Senior Care Assistant.

• Location: Hitchin
• Salary: £19,449.73 per annum
• Working hours: 37.5 hours/ week- Days or Nights available, 07:45-20:15/19:45-08:15 (Required to work every other weekend on a rolling rota)

Duties:

• Providing direct person-centred care to all residents, promoting their individuality and dignity at all times.
• Administering medication
• Assisting residents with social activities by interacting with them, encouraging them to continue with or take up new hobbies and activities such as those organised by the Activities Coordinator or assistants
• To lead, support and mentor the team of care assistants on shift and support the nurse on duty to organise and supervise their work
• Performing, reporting and recording, following training, clinical observations of residents’ temperature, pulse, breathing, height and weight. Obtaining urine, stool and sputum samples, as requested by the GP or RGN in charge. Performing simple urinalysis following training

What you will need to succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is positive and friendly. The successful candidate will:

• Have a good level of IT skills and literacy
• Be able to demonstrate specific knowledge of clinical care
• Have care home or caring experience
• Be willing to undertake further training
• Have a Level 2 or 3 NVQ in Health and Social Care – essential

The offer

Our Life@One benefits offer you an array of perks designed with your wellbeing in mind.
Salary: £19,449.73 per annum
Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 20 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues.
Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.
Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.