Health Care Assistant

Nightingale Hammerson cares for over 250 residents, tailoring our approaches within our residential, nursing, dementia, respite, and palliative care. We are enormously proud of our homes, with our South London home, Nightingale House, being rated as Outstanding and our North London, Hammerson House, as “Good” in its first year open by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Person-centred care is at the heart of our work, and we have teams of on-site therapists, a dietitian, and a wealth of activitie

**What will your typical day involve?**
- Assisting with personal care (washing, dressing and grooming)
- Supporting with 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

**Who 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 organised environment. Often managing multiple requests at once, team members need to be comfortable with 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 in their home.

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.

Although welcome, no previous experience is required as full training is provided.

However, the following is essential:

- A compassionate, respectful, and caring approach
- A good understanding of the needs of older people
- Awareness of and respect for Jewish values and traditions (we offer training to introduce Jewish culture and traditions, as the majority of our team is not Jewish)
- 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 prioritising tasks
- A flexible attitude towards tasks and hours
- A professional presentation and positive attitude, with a customer-orientated and friendly outlook.

**What else do we offer?**
- Free pick up and drop service to East Finchley tube station
- A friendly, supportive, team working environment
- Highly competitive rates of pay
- Training & development opportunities
- 247.5 hours annual leave, increasing over time
- A DBS (at no cost to yourself)
- Free uniform
- £500 Refer a friend bonus scheme (T&C Applied)

**Hours**
- 37.5 hours a week on a rota, with a mixture of days, nights and weekends.

**_ 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 elderly on a daily basis.

**Values**:
Embrace and embody our core values of Compassion, Respect, Excellence, Dignity, Integrity, and Teamwork.

**Safeguarding**

**Diversity**

We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and residents we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.