Senior Nights Care Assistant

POSITION: Senior Nights Care Assistant

RESPONSIBLE TO: Home Manager

Pay rate is £13.25 per hr

The shifts are 20:00 - 0800 on a 5 nights on 5 nights off continuous rolling rota.

Purpose of Job:

To work alongside the registered manager in the provision of resident care. To act as a mentor to other carers through being an example and through supporting them in their supervision, development and appraisal.

Key Responsibilities:

• To organise and direct other care assistants throughout a shift of work
• To assist in the formal supervision of other carers
• To assist the manager in the appraisal of other carers, as required
• To take on the role of key worker for a group of residents
• To be responsible for the administering of medicines
• To respect the individual rights and choices of residents
• To respond to the different cultural values and diversity of residents
• To ensure the health and safety of residents; arrange medical visits as required.
• To report any health and safety issues or equipment failures to the manager
• To communicate effectively with colleagues and managers
• To provide personal care to residents with regard to their daily living needs
• To contribute to the therapeutic and social programmes offered to individual residents
• To carry out moving and handling in accordance with training and in-house policy
• To assist residents to live a normal lifestyle, including sleeping at night
• To assist residents in retaining memory and life skills
• To supervise residents at mealtimes, ensuring that they have a satisfactory intake of nutrition consistent with their preferences and needs
• To assist with the home laundry as required
• To dispose of waste safely and in accordance with care home policy.
• Maintain infection control procedures and ensure policy followed at all times
• All staff are required to attend mandatory training where appropriate, this includes induction and Care Certificate Standards or their equivalent if requires
• To enable and assist service users to maintain on a day to day basis as much autonomy and independence as possible.
• To support and assist service users in identifying risks and recording the support plan which minimises and manages the identified risk
• To agree and record with the service user their needs wishes and preferences and how these will be met.
• Identify and support appropriately service users with capacity and those who lack capacity.
• Record appropriately all decisions which relate to service users who lack capacity.
• Involve and consult with service users, their families, representatives or advocates to ensure that the service user’s views are expressed and acted upon.
• Attend reviews of care as appropriate.
• Update and continually improve practice by a mutually agreed method which may include attendance at staff meetings, learning support briefings and one-to-one supervision.
• Take responsibility in conjunction with line manager for identifying further learning.
• Understand the requirement of the New Fundamental Standard Regulations 9 – 20, in relation to the Care Quality Commission Inspect regime and its importance to your workplace practice.
• Promote good practice and be vigilant in recognising and reporting practice which does not meet the defined standard.
• To assist and contribute to any regulatory body inspection or monitoring visit. 
• To act at all times, to safeguard service users from any form of abuse and to report such concerns immediately.

Health and Safety:

All employees have a responsibility to abide by the safety practices and codes authorised by the home; they share equal responsibility with management for maintaining safe working practices.

Note: This job description is an outline only and may be amended to take account of changes within the department following discussion with the post holder.

The above duties and responsibilities are intended to represent current priorities and are not exhaustive; the post holder may from time to time be asked to undertake other reasonable duties. Any changes will be made in discussion with the post holder in the light of service needs and will be commensurate with the grade and competencies of the post.