Care Assistant

3 weeks ago

Portsmouth, United Kingdom Portsmouth City Council Full time

**Job details**:
**Salary**: £22,437 - £24,148

Hours: 37 per week

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: 11th August 2023

**Portsmouth City Council**

Portsmouth is a vibrant university city, with a rich maritime history on the South coast enjoying excellent transport links to the rest of the country.

At Portsmouth City Council we’re all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city, but we need the best employees to do so.

With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority’s main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city.

From customer service to multi-million-pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.

DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**The Service**:
Harry Sotnick House is a busy 46 bed nursing home. We are fully committed as a team and are involved in all aspects of our resident's lives. It can be hard work and mentally and physically strenuous but rewarding for the right person with the right skills and values. We provide person centred care to our residents and encourage them to make choices as part of helping them maintain their independence as much as possible. We encourage activity-based care.

**The Role**:
Using a person-centred approach, you will look after the physical, emotional, cultural and social needs of service users. This will include personal care, assisting clients at mealtimes and all aspects of daily living. You will be providing person centred care in the form of social activities which promotes the resident's mental health and wellbeing and improves their quality of life.

You will be a key worker to specific residents taking responsibility to ensure information about their health and wellbeing is recorded on the daily record sheets and communicated to the assistant managers as per our legal requirement under the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to meet our fundamental standards.

It will be your responsibility to ensure monitoring and hourly checks with detailed recording on daily record sheets are carried out on residents and their care needs are met.

You will look after the needs of a diverse group of service users with a wide range of care needs, including challenging behaviour.

**What you'll need to succeed**

Have patience and empathy, with an understanding of the needs of people with different types of dementia and physical disabilities.

Experience in a caring role as a formal paid or unpaid carer.

**Please read the job profile for the full details of this role
**What you'll get in return**

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Flexible working hours.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services - access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

**Additional Information**:
The full job profile is attached here.

**Application process**:
Applicants will be shortlisted based on their ability to use good examples that meet the criteria of this role.

Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.

You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

We look forward to speaking with you soon.

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