Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

An excellent and exciting opportunity to join our Marchglen Care Home as a Senior Care Assistant!  You will work part of a great team and be making a difference to our residents by providing excellent care standards, taking pride in treating our residents as individuals, all while acting as a role model for other Care Assistants. 

?If making people’s lives better is what gets you up in the morning, you should come and join a like-minded team at our Marchglen Care Home.  As a Senior Care Assistant here, you can make a real difference to the lives of our residents with reliable, compassionate care.

Whether it’s going out of the way to make them feel comfortable and respected, or just taking an interest in how their grandchildren are doing, you’ll be the kind of person who loves to brighten up our residents’ days. 

If that sounds like you, we think you’ll love working at Marchglen. We’re part of the Caring Homes, which is one of the UK’s leading providers of residential, nursing and dementia care for the elderly.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To join us as a Senior Healthcare Assistant, you’ll need: Previous experience working with older people in residential care. You will need to be flexible, patient, caring, organised and great with people. You will have strong communication skills both verbally and in writing Completed your SVQ 3 in Health and Social Care (or equivalent). It will be your responsibility to build strong relationships with all those around you, making sure family and friends feel welcomed, that health care professionals are kept well-informed, and that you’re keeping your Line Manager up to speed with residents’ needs and progress. A team player, you can follow guidelines and policies easily, and will have good written skills, as you will need to write up care plans. You’ll be enthusiastic and have empathy, a can-do approach and excellent communication skills. Above all you’ll have real compassion for all our residents to deliver the highest standard of care.   Flexible to work shifts on a rota basis, and work alternate weekends