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Senior Care Assistant
Nocturnal Recruitment are looking for experienced Team Leaders with previous experience of working with Elderly and Challenging Behaviour both physical and verbal required for ongoing shifts across East London. Personal care is a must as some clients are less able than others and need assistance.
You should be an effective communicator with a person-centred approach to your care delivery. Your role as a Team Leader will be supporting all care workers and residents in all aspects of life to help them achieve dreams and aspirations in all aspects of their life, they can display challenging behaviour at times so you must be experienced in providing care and support to individuals who are Elderly and have Mental Health Difficulties.
The residential care home has around 40+ people. Supporting people with a range of support needs from low to high; with old age/ dementia, profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD), autism/mental health.
* Lead and motivate your team to ensure the supporting and maintenance of a positive local culture within the service.
* Deliver effective supervision and team meetings with staff and ensure that information, reporting and communication Responsible for the personal development of staff, identifying high performers and feeding into the organisation’s succession plans
* Medication will need to be administered
* Ensure that Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) required as part of the Contract are met and recorded correctly.
* Participate in and monitor the initial and continuous assessment of needs and ensure that support planning is carried out in line with assessed needs of the customer
* Deliver an out of hours on-call service
Shift Patterns:
* Able to work a fully flexible shift pattern – 7am – 2pm, 2pm – 9pm and long days
* One weekend on, one weekend off
* On call response
You must have:
* Have at least 1 years’ experience as a Team Leader within Elderly Dementia
* Must have experience working with client groups of Elderly/Dementia
* Must Hold a valid DBS within the last 12 months – preferably registered online or be able to complete a new one
Nocturnal Recruitment Solutions:
Specialise in the provision of Care & Support Workers, Team Leaders HCAs and other Healthcare industry-specific job roles. Our focus is to provide exceptional staff to Residential Homes (Adult and Children), Day Centres, Hospitals, Supported Living, Hostels, Nursing Homes. We also provide work for Community Support Workers, Care Assistants, Social Worker Assistants, Residential Support Workers, Young Adults Support Workers etc
