Senior Care Assistant

Senior Care Assistant - Days

**Job Description**:
**Senior Care Assistant, within our dementia suite**

**Richmond Villages Wood Norton, Evesham Road, Worcestershire, WR11 4TY* *SatNav WR11 4YB**

**£13.50 per hour - Paid breaks plus £500 welcome bonus**

**Permanent.** Full or part time on 12 hour shifts of 08:00-20:00 to include alternative weekends**

**We make health happen**

At Bupa, we offer essential support when it matters most. Richmond Villages Wood Norton provides luxury retirement living with personalized care that promotes independence and honours individual choice, allowing our residents to live their best lives. We take pride in our carehome.co.uk review score of 9.9 out of 10.

A Senior Care Assistant is essential within our care home, providing vital support to the nursing team with clinical duties. They ensure residents receive high-quality care by assisting with medical tasks such as administering medication, monitoring vital signs, and updating digital care plans. Their role bridges the gap between nursing staff and residents, ensuring seamless and efficient care delivery. With an NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care, our Senior Care Assistants bring expertise and professionalism, enhancing the overall care environment. Their dedication and skills are crucial in maintaining residents' health, dignity, and comfort, making them invaluable members of the care team.

**If you are passionate about making a difference and meet these qualifications, we invite you to join our team.**

**You'll help us make health happen by**:

- Day-to-day responsibility for running a unit
- Supporting with clinical duties, including supporting the nurse to observe, issue medication, review care plans and accurate record keeping
- Driving and managing a team of Care Assistants, including responsible for all shift handovers of the teams
- Helping with training and supervision of new staff members so they feel welcomed and supported
- Building relationships with residents, their families and external teams such as GPs and District Nurses
- Assisting residents with a range of personal care duties

**Benefits**

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

- My Healthcare - Quick, easy access to support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP, physiotherapy, and mental health support - all available from one phone number 24/7.
- Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350
- Free meal with every shift.
- 28 days holiday.
- Long Service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays and money
- Interest
- free annual travel Loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets.
- Wagestream - Have early access up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes.
- Competitive Pension plans and Parental leave options as well as access to unique products such as our Menopause plan.
- My Bupa Extras - discounts at your favourite retailers, plus a huge range of tools, content and information to support you with your wellbeing.
- We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.

**Why Bupa?**

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to**offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
Care Home - Care support
Locations:
Richmond Wood Norton

Employee mentoring programme, Company pension, Financial planning services, Referral programme, Gym membership, Health & wellbeing programme, Cycle to work scheme, Free flu jabs