Job Title: Senior Care Assistant
Team: Bed Based Services
Hours: 14 per week
Grade: E scp11 £25,979 to scp17 £28,770
Contract: Permanent
The Role
Looking for the next step in your career?
Then Bolton Council is the place for you!
Here at Wilfred Geere House, we have an exciting opportunity for you to become part of our dynamic, supportive team. We are looking for a dedicated, compassionate senior carer to join our CQC “good” rated service. You must be experienced in providing care and should have experience of, or be willing to, managing a small team.
What do we do?
We provide 24-hour residential care for service users who require continuation of care and rehabilitation. The aim of the Units is to support residents to regain as much independence as deemed achievable and return home or move onto alternative care arrangements. At Bolton Council we recognise the skills individuals can bring and promote joint working, with both NHS staff and local authority staff working on-site.
What do we offer?
· Competitive rates of pay
· 7% enhancement for evening and weekend working
· Double time and a day in lieu when working on Bank Holidays
· Workplace pension
· Paid e-learning and face-to-face training
· Opportunities to pick up additional shifts.
· Free uniform and free DBS
· Holiday Pay
· Benefits through employee discount scheme
· Long service awards and recognition
Ask us about flexible working options #HappytoTalkFlexible
Job Description & Person Specification.docx
About You
Essential:
· You must be experienced in providing care in a formal setting, such as a care or residential home.
· You should be friendly and approachable, and willing to join a hard-working, dedicated existing team of Senior Care Assistants and Care Supervisors.
Desirable:
· You should have some care qualifications and be willing to complete more training as required.
· You should be used to supporting, directing and managing staff, or be willing to learn.
What will your working week look like?
· 14 hours a week
· Rolling 4-week rota
· Working between 7:15am – 10:15pm dependant on shift pattern:
o 7:15am-2:45pm OR
o 2:30pm-10:00pm
· Weekend on/ weekend off basis to promote work/life balance.
· You will be working alongside the care supervisor, assisting to manage a small team, administering medication, ensuring compliance with training, policies and procedures, assisting with rostering, auditing, assisting with admissions, and above all, ensuring high-quality delivery of care to service users.
Due to the limited number of hours available for this position, we are willing to offer additional peripatetic care hours for the right candidate. Please note this will be paid at Grade C SCP 4, with the 7% enhancement for evening and weekend working. These hours need to be flexible to meet the needs of the service and can be planned up to 4 weeks in advance.
If you are looking for a role that is both rewarding and fulfilling, we want to hear from you!
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see the Work with Us page on greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk
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Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and using the open box, answer the following questions:
1) Explain how you have directed or supported staff members to deliver effective care.
2) What is your understanding of person-centred care and how do you deliver this?
3) Explain a time when you have dealt with an emergency situation concerning a service user, and what you did.
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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.