Night Care Assistant
| Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,420 to £25,652 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 August 2025 |
| Location: | Harry Sotnick House, PO15LU |
| Company: | Portsmouth City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | pcc/TP/724/729 |
Summary
Night Care Assistant
Salary: Band: 4, £24,420 - £25,652 p.a. (£21,780 - £22,878 for 33 hours) plus 33%shift enhancement added for nights.
Hours: Part time - An average of 33 hours per week - hours will be worked over 2-week rota which may include weekends and bank holidays.
The Service
Harry Sotnick House is a busy 46 bed nursing unit located on the ground floor of the building.
We are fully committed as a team and are involved in all aspects of our resident's lives. It can be hard work and mentally and physically strenuous but rewarding for the right person with the right skills and values. We provide person centred care to our residents and encourage them to make choices as part of helping them maintain their independence as much as possible. We encourage activity-based care.
As a service we take pride in our work by valuing others, focusing on what's important so that we make a real and positive difference.
What is the 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 clients at mealtimes and all aspects of daily living.You will be providing person centred care in the form of social activities which promotes the resident's mental health and wellbeing and improves their quality of life.
You will be a key worker to specific residents taking responsibility to ensure information about their health and wellbeing is recorded on the daily record sheets and communicated to the assistant managers 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 job profile for full details on the role.
Who is the person?
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. The ability to converse at ease with residents with cognitive impairment and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential.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 job profile for details of what you need to demonstrate in order to fulfil the role.
About Portsmouth City Council
What we can offer you:
Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.
Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council
Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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.
Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board safer recruitment procedures.
Application process:
Please read the full job profilefor 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.
We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found at Equality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal. We are committed to offering an interview to all those candidates that qualify under one of our commitments and meet the minimum criteria, however for roles that receive a large number of applications, this is not always possible, and we will select the candidates that best meet the minimum criteria.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
We may not be able to offer sponsorship for this role due to recent visa legislation. Please visit the UK visas and immigration website for further information.
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Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk. or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616800.