Night Care Assistant
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 08 Awst 2024 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 07 Medi 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Portsmouth, po1 2ep |
| Cwmni: | Portsmouth City Council |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 4066 |
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Care Assistant (Nights) - Shearwater
Salary: Band: 4, £23,152 - £24,362 p.a. (£12, 514 - £13,168 for 20 hours, £15,643 - £16,460 for 25 hours) plus 33% shift allowance
Hours: 20 - 25 hours available - 21:30 - 07:30
Sunday and bank holiday working may apply.
Please indicate on your application the number of hours you would be able to work. Minimum hours 20.
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 8,000 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.
The Service
Shearwater is in the Milton area of Portsmouth and is a purpose built 40 bed dementia residential home, which opened in August 2009. The accommodation is spread over 2 floors in units of 20 per floor. All bedrooms have a private ensuite with a shower. The home also has a good-sized garden for residents to enjoy.
We currently have around 100 staff working different roles and different shifts throughout the home.
Our philosophy is to encourage independence, though we recognise severe dementia may require residential care. We promote well-being through person centred activities and supporting diversity.
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 residents with good food and fluid intake and all other aspects of daily living.
You will be required to settle residents into bed and provide support if they wake, including night-time activities for those who do not wish to sleep, promoting the resident's mental health and well-being and improving their quality of life.
You will be a key in taking responsibility to ensure information about their health and wellbeing, is recorded on the daily record sheets and communicated to the team leader as per our legal requirement under the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to meet our fundamental standards. You will look after the needs of a diverse group of service users with a wide range of care needs, including challenging behaviour.
It will be your responsibility to ensure monitoring and hourly checks with detailed recording on daily record sheets are carried out on residents and their care needs are met.
This role will include some person moving and handling duties and there will be the need for light food preparation.
Please view the full details on the role here.
What you'll need to succeed
You will have patience and empathy as well as an understanding of the needs of people with different types of dementia and physical disabilities. With an understanding of the importance of a person's privacy, dignity, privacy and choice you will have good literacy, verbal and communication skills and the ability to work independently using your own initiative to make decisions and the ability to deal with emergencies in a confident manner. You will have experience in a caring role, paid or unpaid, and will be required to take part in training and development which will contribute towards you framework and study for QCF at level 2/3 or equivalent. You will be required to undertake the Care Certificate within your probationary period.
Please view the full details of the role here as well as details of what you need to demonstrate in order to fulfil the role.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
What you'll get in return
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Flexible working hours.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.
Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/
Application process:
Please read the full job profile (click here) for further details on the post to ensure your application matches the requirements of the role stated in the who is the person.
Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. This is important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please do not just send a CV.
Please ensure you provide your full education history from secondary school, include name/address of establishment, details of relevant qualifications & awarding body.
Please explain any gaps - this is essential for all safeguarding roles.
You may wish to attach an additional letter or document to supplement you application.
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.
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
Applicants will be contacted for interview as and when shortlisting takes place and we reserve the right to close the advert early if we have a successful applicant.
A commitment to our values
We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk