Senior Carer

**JOB TITLE**:
**Senior Carer**

**LOCATION**:
**Kingswinford**

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At Horizon Senior Living, we believe in providing high quality care homes where residents are looked after with the utmost dignity and respect. We believe in helping our residents to live their lives as independently as possible and support them in reaching their potential, through both practical and emotional support as well as having a positive impact on their lives. We see it as our mission to ensure that everyone in our care is supported and look forward to every day with us, and their well-being is maintained through enjoying the simple but essential pleasures of good food and company in a warm and homely environment.

You will take pride in delivering quality care that is driven by the individual, working as a collaborator, and contributing to a joyful team spirit. You will follow all policy and procedures to ensure that we work in a safe environment that places safeguarding and quality of care at the centre of all that we do.

**To succeed you will be**:

- A team player who engages well with others
- Strong communicator and influencer
- Energetic and hard-working
- Flexible and adaptable to change
- Passionate about offering superior services and want to make a difference

**About the Role**:
The main purpose of the role is to ensure residents receive high quality care and support, including support with planning and administering medication, in accordance with their assessed needs.

The role requires you to assist the residents with tasks of daily living such as personal care and mobility, and end of life care, as directed by care plans.

Support residents to take their medication as prescribed and recorded in the individual Medication Administration Record.

Ensure residents have companionship and social, emotional and leisure support in accordance with their wishes and the care plans, wishes and feelings.

Work in accordance with the CQC standards and regulations, to ensure delivery of high-quality care and services

Your will be required to support your own professional development, access training and courses as required.

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You will be required to attend regular supervision sessions with the Home Manager, to ensure you are being supported in your role, are a competent worker and identify any learning or training needs.

**Principle tasks will include**:
Summary of responsibilities for this role will include,
- Ensuring the smooth running of the shifts, meeting the care of the residents
- Support with personal care, ensuring privacy, dignity, independence and safety are maintained
- Respecting choices and empowering the individuals to live a life led by them
- Working with honesty
- Ensuring residents are comfortable and content and supported to take part in activities indoors and outdoors
- Supporting with new assessments, admissions, discharge and ongoing assessments of all residents
- General household duties such as cleaning resident’s rooms and the home
- Spending quality time with residents
- Have a flexible approach to duties working as part of a team and on own initiative
- Preparing and serving meals/snacks as required
- Complete necessary recording keeping such as logs, care plans and risk assessments
- Assist with medication administration, and ensuring accurate record keeping
- Ensure that day-to-day tasks and routines are carried out to contribute to the smooth running of the service as a whole
- Liaising with any professionals as required
- Ensuring all recording keeping is accurate and completed each shift to a good standard
- Any additional duties delegated by the Home Manager
- Leading in the absence of the Home Manager
- Any other duties that may be required

The role is responsible to the Home Manager/Operations Manager.

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**Person Specification**

**Essential ** **Desirable**
Attainments, **Good numeracy and literacy skills ** NVQ Level 4 in Care (or higher) or equivalent
- Woking towards Level 4 in

Experience & **NVQ Level 3 in Care Care**
- Experience of working

Qualifications **Experience of the principles of ** within care plans
Experience of working with residents in care
- Knowledge of moving and handling procedures and
- Understanding of the principles **basic hygiene regulations of equality, diversity and anti
- discriminatory practice**:

- Understanding of relevant health and safety legislation

Special Skills **Effective written and verbal ** Moving and handling communication skills in English experience / training
- Able to keep accurate records and follow written instructions
- Empathy
- Able to care for residents who use services ensuring privacy, dignity and respect

Work Attitudes **Committed to Horizon’s vision, values and services**
- Team player

Disposition **Able to deal with stressful situations**
- Positive about working with people
- Commitment to personal development

Circumstances **Eligible to work in the UK**
- A satisfactory DBS check with no barred listing
- Able to wor