Senior Care Assistant (Nights)

• To ensure care staff carries out their duties in a competent and efficient manner.
• To have a working knowledge of the home’s Health and Safety, Environmental Health regulations.
• To have work knowledge of the home’s Policies and Procedures.
• To assist residents with personal care in all activities of daily living.
• Helping the resident with physical and mental activity. This could involve talking to them, reading to them. Taking them on day trips, writing on their behalf, assisting with their hobbies and recreation activities.
• To care for the dying.
• Assist with serving meals and other duties you are qualified and assigned to undertake.
• Ensuring care notes and any other form of written report that affects your work are read and kept up to date.
• Take part in staff meetings and training activities as required.
• To give medication and clinical care to residents as authorised and directed. (ONLY IF YOU HAVE BEEN TRAINED AND ARE CONFIDENT IN PERFORMING THESE DUTIES).

Shift times are 19:45-08:00

The above is considered to be a broad representation and not necessarily a comprehensive list. Additional responsibilities will be agreed from time to time as the needs of the home dictate. Any major variation to the key tasks will be subject of discussion and agreement between the post holder and the Manager.