Job Title: Senior Care Worker
Location: Slough
Salary: Negotiable - depending on experience and qualifications.
Hours per week: 40 hours per week.
Job Type: Permanent / Fulltime
About the Role:
We are seeking dedicated Nursing Assistants to support registered nurses and healthcare professionals in delivering safe and effective patient care within healthcare settings. The role focuses on assisting the nursing team with clinical support tasks and monitoring patient wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Leadership & Shift Responsibility
- Routinely oversee and monitor care workers and home carers during your shift, maintaining high standards of care delivery.
- Take full responsibility for the shift and the service while on duty, escalating operational concerns to management promptly.
- Respond to emergencies, providing immediate support and guidance to the care team and reporting concerns to healthcare professionals as required.
- Support the induction and day-to-day development of junior care workers, sharing best practice across the team.
Direct Care & Personal Support
- Assist and enable service users to dress, undress, wash, use the toilet and bathe, maintaining dignity at all times.
- Serve meals at table or in bed and assist with feeding and nutritional support where required.
- Administer and support prescribed medication to service users in accordance with individual care plans, medication administration records and prescribed protocols, ensuring accuracy and safe practice at all times.
- Attend to service users’ overall comfort and wellbeing, including help with daily activities such as correspondence, paying bills and accessing community services.
- Provide meaningful activities to stimulate and engage service users, tailored to their individual needs and care plans.
Monitoring, Records & Compliance
- Observe and report changes in service users’ condition by recording temperature, pulse, respiration and weight, contributing accurately to all care records.
- Liaise with qualified staff to follow and contribute to care plans and risk assessments and clinical guidance.
- Communicate openly and professionally with service users’ families and representatives regarding care plans, changes in condition and any concerns, ensuring they are kept fully informed and involved in care decisions.
- Maintain confidentiality and handle personal data in line with UK GDPR, CQC standards and company policy.
- Adhere to all safeguarding, health and safety and lone-working procedures and attend mandatory training as required.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
EssentialDesirableQualifications-NVQ / QCF Level 3 in Health & Social Care (or working towards it).
-Enhanced DBS disclosure (or willingness to undergo one).NVQ / QCF Level 4 or 5 in Health & SocialCare, Leadership or Management.
First Aid / Basic Life Support certificate Nursing, health sciences or social care qualification.Experience-Background in social care with experience supporting adults, children or the elderly.
-Previous supervisory or senior care role overseeing other care workers.
-Following and contributing to care plans, risk assessments and clinical guidance
-Maintaining accurate care records and documentationHome care, community care, residential or nursing home settings.
Coordinating or leading a care team, managing rotas or conducting supervisions.
Supporting service users with complex or long-term health conditions.Skills &
Attributes-Confident and calm under pressure, including in emergency situations.
-Compassionate, person-centred approach.
-Sound knowledge of safeguarding and child/adult protection principles.
-Reliable and flexible across varied shifts including nights and weekends.Knowledge of CQC standards and the Care Act 2014 / Children Acts 1989 & 2004.
Full UK driving licence and own transport Familiarity with electronic care or rostering systems.
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- Subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.
- Two professional references.
- The right to work in the UK.
Work Location: In person
