Job Description

Main duties of the Senior Care Assistant role are to:

• Provide individual care for our service users
• Spot check and monitor of quality and assurance
• Administration of care records
• Carry out initial risk and needs assessments in respect of individual service users.
• Work in partnership with service users, their family, carers, advocates, healthcare professionals and others to ensure the seamless delivery of holistic packages of individual care support;
• Carry out regular reviews of individual services and risk assessments;
• Participate as required in multi-disciplinary review of service users’ needs.
• Shadow new care workers in the field to ensure their competence;
• Carry out the on-site observation and evaluation of care worker practice as part of routine supervision, in response to particular performance concerns, or as otherwise directed;
• Provide ad hoc support and instruction to care workers in the field, including in an emergency.
• Promote a safe working environment and safe systems of work;
• Understand and follow hazard and accident reporting procedures;
• Be alert to any changes in service users’ condition and circumstances and act appropriately when these change

As a Senior Care Assistant with Constance Care you’ll enjoy:

• Guaranteed hours*
• Competitive hourly rates from £10.20 and 28 days’ annual leave (pro rata)*
• Ongoing support and development 
• The chance to increase your career opportunities with a fully-funded diploma QCF in social care*

• A Fantastic Pension Scheme

• Exclusive discounts every day to hundreds of UK retailers, including Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Pizza Express and many others
• Employee referral bonus programmes*

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Kind, caring and compassionate • A good listener who is patient • A happy ‘people person’ • Naturally strives to go the extra mile for others • Organised and conscientious