Senior Health Care Assistant

7 months ago


Colchester, United Kingdom Outlook Care Full time

If you are interested in working in a warm, caring, compassionate environment that puts the person and their family at the centre of all that you do and passionate about making a difference to people’s lives, we are looking for Senior Health Care Assistants to join the staff teams at Foxburrow Grange, our specialist Dementia and Nursing home.

Experience of working with older people and dementia is an advantage, though full training will be provided to applicants with transferable skills. You will need to have excellent leadership skills and experience of supervising staff. You will need to be team player, motivated, enthusiastic and able to build positive relationships. Excellent listening and communication skills are essential as well as good written and basic IT skills.

**About Outlook Care**:
Outlook Care is a specialist provider of learning disability services across London and Essex. We also specialise in dementia, elderly care, end of life and mental health. Outlook Care started in 1990 and has now been running for over 30 years. We pride ourselves on our strong values:

- **Listen** - always with interest, concern and action
- **Inspire** - through every interaction so people can achieve their ambitions
- **Kind **- genuine care and compassion
- **Excellence** - by striving to be the best we can
- **Integrity** - acting ethically and being accountable
- **Trusting **- rely upon us to do what we say we will do

**Benefits at Outlook Care**:
We understand how important our employees are and to support you in making a difference to people’s lives, we have a fantastic range of benefits:

- **Flexible hours & a competitive salary**:

- **28 days of annual leave increasing with length of service**:

- **Preferential dental / health contributory rates**:

- **Comprehensive induction / training & development opportunities**:

- **Reward Opportunities including Refer a Friend**:

- **Empathy/ wellbeing** **program**:

- **Sick leave / maternity & paternity**:

- **Disability friendly**:

- **Early Pay - access to your pay** **before payday**:

- **Workplace pension through NEST or option to join SHPS Pension membership including life assurance**

**About you**:

- Have you experience as a senior care worker
- Do you want to make a positive difference to people’s lives?
- Interested in working in a warm, caring and compassionate environment alongside that puts the person and their family at the centre of all that you do.
- Ability to work flexibly.
- Team player, motivated, enthusiastic and able to build positive relationships.
- Excellent listening and communication skills are essential.
- Good standard of written, verbal and numeracy skills.
- Good basic IT skills.

**Job Role**:

- Implementing systems for quality assurance ensure CQC, Outlook Care Policies and procedures and other regulatory compliance is met
- Demonstrating positive role modelling to a specified team, ensure Outlook Care’s values are embedded within service delivery, increasing choice and control for service users.
- Supervising, coaching and managing the performance of specified staff ensure a safe and effective person centred service is delivered within a well maintained and homely environment that is safe for residents to enjoy
- Developing good relationships with families and key stakeholders ensure the continued development of the service
- Ensuring safeguarding is given the utmost priority and operational policies are understood and followed, service user safety is assured
- Contributing to the development of the service ensure practice is current and conforms to good practice standards
- Have a good understanding of the importance of nutrition and infection control, ensure the wellbeing of service users and staff
- Undertake delegated health related tasks e.g. dressings and medication administration
- Developing person centred care plans ensure care is of a high standard focussed on the persons needs and aspirations

**The Service**:
Foxburrow Grange is a 69 bed home with state-of-the-art facilities with an outstanding and friendly team of dedicated staff. The home has been delivering person-centred care for 30 years, is within easy reach of major transport links and close to Colchester town centre. The home comprises of four wings. On the ground floor are 32 bedrooms for residents with dementia, with a further 37 rooms on the first floor for people in need of nursing and/or dementia care.

**Important Information**:

- We strongly recommend you are vaccinated against Covid-19.
- Right to work documentation will need to be provided.
- Certificate of sponsorship is unavailable at this time (Skilled worker route).

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