Senior Care Assistant/team Leader

5 days ago

Troon, United Kingdom Suncourt House Full time

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**JOB TITLE**:Senior Care Assistant

**Ayrshire Care Homes Values**:

- **Fulfilling Lives is our core purpose.**:

- **Every one of us makes a difference is the belief that drives us.**:

- **Caring, Passionate and Teamwork are the values that underpin everything we do.**

**JOB SUMMARY**

To professionally lead the care team during any span of duty, ensuring that a safe, effective, and efficient care service is maintained which meets the needs of residents. To provide care to residents in accordance with their assessed needs to an industry leading standard.

**Overall responsibilities**:

- Provide leadership and support for care staff and act as a champion for residents’ safety and dignity.
- To maintain skills and knowledge and ensure that care is delivered according to latest guidelines and best practice evidence available.
- Ensure the ongoing safety of residents, staff and visitors through systematic assessment, monitoring and reviewing processes.
- Ensure that clear and accurate records and communication systems relating to clinical and care delivery are maintained and effectively used
- Act as a role model for good clinical and care governance practice.

**Specific responsibilities and duties**:

- Supervise care staff on a day-to-day basis and through formal supervision processes.
- Liaise with GPs and other health professionals to ensure that residents receive the medical and clinical support they require.
- Demand high quality care delivery focused on residents individually assessed needs and choices.
- Promote the professional image of the services through excellent communication, appropriate behaviour, and professional appearance.
- Support new care staff in the completion of induction programs, training, and competency assessment.

**Education/ qualifications**

SVQ Level 3

Evidence of personal and professional development

**Experience**
- Experience of working with older people
- Knowledge and use of clinical assessment tools e.g., Waterlow,
- Understand care planning processes and have experience of writing care plans
- Experience of leading a shift

**Skills/abilities**
- Good organisational skills
- Good supervisory skills
- Good communication skills both written and verbal
- Ability to contribute to, monitor and implement changes that improvement service delivery and outcomes for residents
- Ability to plan allocate and delegate work appropriately

IT literate

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £13.60-£14.60 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Troon KA10 6HE: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- providing care: 1 year (preferred)
- supervisory: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)
- SVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care (required)

Work Location: In person

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