Night Care Assistant

**Night Care Assistant (Harry Sotnick House)**

**Salary**:Band 4 £21,205 - £22,437 p.a. plus 33% shift enhancement added for nights

**Contract**:Permanent Part time

**Hours**:An average of 27.5 hours per Hours will be worked over 2-week rota which may include weekends and bank holidays.

**Portsmouth City Council**

At Portsmouth City Council we’re all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city, but we need the best employees to do so.

With a little over 207,000 residents and 7,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority’s main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million-pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do.

Harry Sotnick House is a busy 46 bed nursing unit located on the ground floor of the building.

As a service we take pride in our work by valuing others, focusing on what's important so that we make a real and positive difference to our residents.

**Your New Role**

Using a person-centred approach, you will look after the physical, emotional, cultural and social needs of service users. This will include personal care, assisting clients at mealtimes and all aspects of daily living. You will be providing person centred care in the form of social activities which promotes the resident's mental health and wellbeing and improves their quality of life.

You will be a key worker to specific residents taking responsibility to ensure information about their health and wellbeing is recorded on the daily record sheets and communicated to the assistant managers as per our legal requirement under the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to meet our fundamental standards.

**What you’ll need to succeed**
- The ability to converse at ease with residents with cognitive impairment and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential.
- Have patience and empathy, with an understanding of the needs of people with different types of disabilities.
- Experience in a caring role as a formal paid or unpaid carer.
- The ability to be flexible and adaptable, able to work in a team as well as being able to work independently and able to use your own initiative and make decisions.
- Have good communication, interpersonal and written skills.
- You will need to be computer literate to enable you to update care plans, use e-learning, print of your payslip etc.
- An understanding of the cultural and linguistic needs of people from a diverse range of backgrounds.
- The ability to deal with emergencies in a confident manner.
- An understanding of the principles and practice of client confidentiality and Data Protection

**What you’ll get in return**

As well as highly competitive pay you’ll receive all the benefits of working within a local authority organisation, which ranges from flexible working hours to a fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return. We wish to support all our staff's development throughout, if that’s progression planning or involvement within the on-the-job apprenticeship scheme, we will work together to drive your career. For those with families we have childcare benefits as well as discounts with local businesses which can be enjoyed by all.

**What next**

**Applications after this time may not be considered.**

We look forward to speaking with you soon.
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Portsmouth Local Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.