Senior Care Assistant - Maternity cover from now until June 2025

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Senior Care Assistant - Maternity cover from now until June 2025 - Heartlands Nursing Home in Birmingham B26, Part of The Country Court Family

Hours: Days 39.37 Hours per week, working weekends on rota (Week 1: 4 x 11.25 hour shifts , Week 2: 3 x 11.25 hour shifts)

Heartlands Nursing Home is one of the leading care homes in Birmingham & we specialise in providing individualised residential, dementia & nursing care that supports residents with their personal needs. Our dedicated team led by the manager help create a warm, homely atmosphere and help create special memories for the residents.

JOINING THE COUNTRY COURT CARE FAMILY

We're proud to be a family run business that's grown over the years to a family of 2,300+ employees and over 35 care homes. We're passionate about providing 5* care to our residents. From bistros to pubs and cinema rooms to spas - we've created extraordinary care homes so we're looking for extraordinary people to join our team!

ABOUT THE SENIOR CARE ASSISTANT ROLE

Within your role as a Senior Care Assistant, you can really make a difference to our residents' lives. Your responsibilities will include:
• Helping our residents with personal support and care,
• Aiding their emotional well-being and social needs
• Administration and monitoring of medications to residents.
• Serving meals/drinks and assisted feeding
• Interacting with our residents on a personal level
• Maintaining care plans

ABOUT YOUOur fantastic staff are at the heart of our homes & provide vital day-to-day support to our residents. Having those care values is vital to share a happy home, so we would love to hear from those who really do want to make a difference to people's lives.

• Experience as a Senior Care Assistant & leading a team.
• Be no stranger to working night shifts
• Have a friendly & caring attitude.
• Able to engage well with the residents and their families
• Have an understanding of people with Dementia
• NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social care or willing to work towards this.
• Great communication skills, both written & verbal.

IN RETURN

You'll be joining a family business and will benefit from our generous range of benefits which include:

• 28 days holiday (FTE) (including bank holidays)
• Annual pay reviews, pension contributions & enhanced bank holiday rates
• Supportive and bespoke Induction Training Programmes, ongoing training and development and nationally recognised qualifications*
• Refer a friend or resident bonus scheme*
• Pension Contributions & a range of excellent discounts for shops, restaurants, days out & more.
• Annual Staff Awards Programme across all our Homes celebrating our great staff

*Subject to Terms and Conditions

Click the Apply Button Now! -If the Senior Care Assistant role sounds like a job for you, we would like to hear from you.

PLEASE NOTE:

All applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK and if successful will need to provide evidence.

We are no longer accepting applications for sponsorship.

You may have experience as

Senior Carer, dementia, Alzheimer's, older people, nursing, nurse, senior care assistant, SCA, leadership, NVQ level 2, NVQ Level 3, Nurse Assistant, Senior Support Worker, Senior Care Worker, Senior Support, team leader.