Senior Care Assistant

**Senior Care Assistant**
We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs. Our Care team is friendly and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide. We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to peoples’ lives, each and every day.

**Join our Care team as a Senior Care Assistant.**

Baycroft Great Baddow is an elegant 64- bed Care Home offering residential, nursing and dementia care near Chelmsford in Essex. Our residents are at the heart of everything we do and we would like talented people to join our team to share in this vision

**The Role**
We have a fantastic opportunity in Great Baddow for someone to join us in the position of Senior Care Assistant.

Location: Great Baddow, Chelmsford

**Salary**: £13.55 per hour (£10.90 + £2.65 market supplement)

Working hours: 37.5 hours week - Days 7.45 - 20:15 to include alternate weekends.

Your duties will include:

- Providing direct person-centred care to all residents, promoting their individuality and dignity at all times.
- Administering medication.
- Assisting residents with social activities by interacting with them, encouraging them to continue with or take up new hobbies and activities such as those organised by the Activities Coordinator or assistants.
- Leading, supporting and mentoring the team of care assistants on shift and support the nurse on duty to organise and supervise their work
- Performing, reporting and recording, following training, clinical observations of residents’ temperature, pulse, breathing, height and weight.
- Obtaining urine, stool and sputum samples, as requested by the GP or RGN in charge.
- Performing simple urinalysis following training.

**What You Will Need To Succeed**
- Have a good level of IT skills and literacy.
- Be able to demonstrate specific knowledge of clinical care.
- Have care home or caring experience.
- Be willing to undertake further training.
- Have a Level 3 NVQ in Health and Social Care.

**The Offer**

**Salary**: £13.55 per hour
- Your holidays are important to us. Annual leave entitlement equivalent to 29 days, inclusive of bank holidays.
- Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues.
- Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
- Look after your loved ones. Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.
- Well done With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
- Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
- We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
- Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
- Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

**About Us**
Our residents are at the heart of everything we do and we would like talented people to join our team to share in this vision.

As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and our workforce reflects that. As of December 2021, One Housing merged with the Riverside Group, creating one of the country's largest housing associations, with more than 75,000 homes. This follows a shared recognition that we are better and stronger together; and that when we combine, we will be able to do more for our customers and the communities we serve.

At One Housing, our people are our strength which is why we work very hard to enable all employees to bring their authentic self to work. This commitment is reflected in our diversity groups support network, our wellbeing initiatives and our employee benefits.

We understand that the different skills and experiences that our colleagues from different backgrounds bring to us allow us to make better decisions, consider different views and be an altogether more interesting and cohesive place to work.

Job Reference: OH00199