Senior Healthcare Assistant

Excelsis Healthcare is looking for Senior healthcare assistants in the UK.

The candidate must be looking to start ASAP.

Full-Time Senior Care Assistant Required

• Sponsorship Available*

Salary: £12.82 per hour

Location: Dorset

What will your typical day involve?

• Managing team of Junior staff
• Assisting with personal care (washing, dressing, and grooming)
• Supporting eating and drinking
• Building good and trusting relationships with residents and always being open and responsive to their questions and needs
• Creating a positive mealtime environment, whilst observing changes in nutritional status
• Acting as an advocate for residents and promoting their dignity
• Supporting and encouraging residents to participate in meaningful engagement
• Reporting any concerns to the Household Lead

Whom are we looking for?

We ask our team members to take pride in their work, ensuring tasks are completed to a high standard, whilst maintaining an organized environment. Often managing multiple requests at once, team members need to be comfortable multitasking and able to work on their own initiative, unsupervised. Where necessary, the role will require working with other teams to ensure our residents are happy.

It is important that our team members can offer a cheerful, compassionate, respectful, and caring approach and have good communication and interpersonal skills. Finally, we ask for a good understanding of the needs of older people and the desire to make a positive contribution to the lives of others.

However, the following is essential:

• A compassionate, respectful, and caring approach
• Minimum 1-year experience as a Senior Health care Assistant in a Care home Setting
• A good understanding of the needs of older people
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build professional relationships and work well within a team
• Basic IT skills and the ability to use a computer
• Be able to work alone under pressure whilst managing and prioritizing tasks
• A flexible attitude towards tasks and hours
• A professional presentation and positive attitude, with a customer-orientated and friendly outlook.
• Proactive leader and able to manage the difficult situations
• Candidate with NVQ Level 3 and medicine Administration training

What else do we offer?

• A friendly, supportive, team working environment
• Highly competitive rates of pay
• Visa sponsorship available
• Accommodation Assistance

Apply Now!!

If you meet the above

requirements, we would love to hear from you!

It is very important to us that, as well as meeting the job description, you can bring a wealth of experience and qualities that make you ideal for working with the Residents on a daily basis.

Safeguarding

All applications will be dealt with on an individual basis in accordance with policy and organizational requirement