Senior Care Assistant

Are you passionate about supporting people in socialising and doing activities that they enjoy? Do you like encouraging colleagues and enabling them to progress within a career that matters? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you at our Residential home in Weymouth, The Lawns.

Location: The Lawns, Fernhill Avenue, Weymouth

£13.31 - £14.01 per hour
Enhanced rate for weekend working
37-hour contract available
Mix of shifts - earlies and lates
Regular, fixed work patterns
Alternating weekends required
Refer a friend scheme up to £300
£1000 welcome bonus

Care Dorset offers fantastic benefits:

Generous Annual leave entitlement - starting at 27 days, rising to 31 after 5 years (exc. Bank holidays)
Enhanced Maternity Pay
Occupational Sick pay entitlement
Funded Blue Light discount package (superb discounts on travel, leisure, entertainment and more)
Access to Employee Assistance Programme
Comprehensive induction
Excellent training & development opportunities supporting career progression.
Access to Litmos online learning platform – our one stop shop for learning & development
Refer a Friend Bonus - up to £300 per person you refer (Uncapped and paid on successful appointment)
Celebrated success through annual awards ceremony

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team at The Lawns, a Residential Home located in Weymouth, Dorset.

You will join a longstanding team of committed and passionate colleagues working in a person-centred way to meet the needs of the people we support.

You will work within our Community Care Strategy for Residential and Day Care Services to provide a wide range of support and opportunities to maintain and promote the independence and quality of life for service users.

Responsibilities:

Support the Senior Care and Community Services Officer in the delivery of services to a variety of service user groups in a day centre, residential care home or community setting.
Undertake the assessment of service users needs in accordance with policies and procedures with the involvement of other professionals and families as appropriate.
Develop care plans and individual service plans for approval by senior staff. Implement, monitor and review care plans.
Supervision of individual and group programmes/courses.
Development of individual and group programmes to meet specific objectives within care plans as appropriate.
Maintain service user records and contribute to other establishment records, as required.
You would be expected to work within the Gold Standards Framework.

The Successful Candidate Should Have:

Awareness of Community Care legislation.
An understanding of Health & Safety.
A team player with strong communication skills.
An NVQ Level 2 Care qualification or equivalent.

Hours/Shift pattern:

37 hours per week.

Rota pattern including alternating weekend working.

As you will be working with vulnerable adults and/or have access to significant information about them if you are successful, you will be required to undergo a DBS check. This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

If you are enthusiastic about making a positive difference in people's lives and meet the requirements mentioned above, we would love to hear from you.