Senior Healthcare Assistant
Reference: SHCA/NOTTINGHAM/0
Salary: £12.87 per hour
We’re recruiting a Senior Healthcare Assistant on behalf of one of the UK’s largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare, in Nottingham! This service offers rehabilitation, care and support to people with a brain injury or other neurological condition. Our client committed to helping every person we support feel safe, happy, empowered enabling them to live the best life possible.
The service provides a psychology led multi-disciplinary treatment model to deliver a high quality, specialist service for people who have a neuro disability or acquired brain injury.
What to look forward to:
- 25 days plus bank holidays
- An extra day off for your birthday
- A Learning Hub where you can benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
- A Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
- Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
- A Nest Personal Pension account
- Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials
- Monthly, quarterly and annual awards programmes, recognising those going above and beyond in their role
- Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
- Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1000 by recommending someone you know
- ……and, of course, the support and guidance of the qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with the group
What you’ll be working:
- Full time
- 38.5hrs per week
- Days and nights flexible
- Weekend working on a rota
What you’ll be doing as a Senior Healthcare Assistant:
- Support individual service user needs in accordance with the Person-Centered Plan (PCP).
- Lead by example, demonstrating best practices in care delivery, communication, and professional conduct.
- Supervise and guide support workers during shifts, providing on-the-job coaching, feedback, and support.
- Act as the primary point of contact during shifts for support workers, managing any incidents, queries, or emergencies as they arise.
- Assist in the conduct of regular audits of service user documentation, medication administration, and care procedures, working under the guidance and supervision of management.
- Administer medication in line with training and company protocols, ensuring accurate record-keeping and adherence to safety standards. (Hazelwood Unit Only)
- Assist with aspects of personal and intimate care as required for each service user which may include:
– Bathing, showering, drying, shaving
– Dressing, undressing
– Hair/nail and foot care
– Assisting to eat
– Domestic and clinical waste disposal
– Dental hygiene
– Toileting/catheters
– Stomas/PEG feeds - Support service users with physical disabilities using trained techniques and aids e.g. hoists, wheelchairs, modified bathing equipment.
- Promote service users’ rights to confidentiality of information in accordance with the guidelines of company policy and data protection laws.
- Be assigned to service users as a key worker.
- Responsible for ensuring individual service user documentation is accurate and up-to-date at all times.
- Observe and operate at all times in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures.
- Maintain a flexible approach in relation to the working pattern to ensure the smooth operation of the service including working across sites, additional hours, weekends and public holidays.
- Responsible for attending and completing all mandatory training.
What you’ll have:
- Numeracy and literacy Level 2
- Level 3 in Health and Social Care or willingness to undertake
- Proven experience in a support role.
- Skilled in communication, providing clear instructions, and maintaining team morale.
- Compassionate and Caring
- Ability to work as part of a team and as an individual.
- Self-confidence and ability to manage challenging situations.
- IT literate.
- Strong organisational, time management, planning and communication skills.
- Proven reliability in terms of full attendance and timekeeping.
- Competencies:
- Service user focus
- Learning and development
- Health and safety
- Managing and planning
- Company standards
- Team work
- Communication
Our client wants to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, they are a Disability Confident committed employer.
If this sounds like the role for you, apply to be a Senior Healthcare Assistant in Nottingham today!
